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Pakistan captain Shaheen Afridi: "Yes [I am happy with the batting performance]. It was really good, the way Hasan Nawaz and Arafat Minhas came in. It's a good sign for us but we need the top [order] to make a good score and fast.

"As a team we played some good things but we need to improve more because we are preparing for the World Cup. We want to build this team and the way the fast bowlers bowled was a good sign for us. We used some bouncers and some thoughts."

On Arafat Minhas' impact: "He's a very good talent. He's not just a bowler but a proper all-rounder. The way he started his innings with the bat and bowled is good for us, for Pakistan team and hopefully do it again in the future."

To those who are slamming Sam Curran. Cast your mind back to when we played India over the summer... I believe he was our highest wicket-taker in both the ODIs and T20s series. Terrible indeed!

David, Basingstoke

I think Sam Curran balances both the T20 and ODI team very well. Is good with both bat and ball.

Jamie, Woking

All those moaning about Sam, at least hes won matches. What has the captain done? Never a match winning innings and out cheapily again today.

James, London

Not sure I understand rationale behind promoting Sam Curran. Was he meant to counter-attack? If so did anyone tell him!

David, Durham

What’s the obsession with Sam Curran? Bang average with bat and ball - should be nowhere near our World Cup XI.

Max, London

Not sure on what basis Sam Curran has been selected? No form at all this summer and certainly none in the 50-over game. Do the selectors only ever look at the same 25 names?

Simon, Southampton

Ben Duckett has a slightly terse exchange with the standing umpire. I think he wanted a drink brought out to the middle, possibly.

Either way something has got his goat.

The England opener picks up a single off Saim Ayub then continues the discussion at the non-striker's end.

Pakistan skipper Shaheen Afridi turns to another experienced seamer in all-rounder Faheem Ashraf.

The 32-year-old bowls with decent control with his first four deliveries, cramping Ben Duckett for room with a tight line.

Ben Duckett drills one slightly overpitched but Saim Ayub manages to pull of a superb diving stop at point.

Final ball of the over is thrashed through the gap, though, for four.

Nawaz fell for a brilliant 79 with 10 overs to go, leaving the innings in the balance, but Arafat took on the responsibility and added 72 off just 49 balls with Faheem Ashraf.

Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf added a flurry of boundaries in the final couple of overs which took Pakistan past 300, and it should be a competitive chase.

Sonny Baker finished with 3-65 while Jamie Overton was exceptional with his spell of 1-38.

Steven Finn
Former England fast bowler on BBC Test Match Special

This is a fantastic knock from Arafat Minhas. This is getting to a defendable total for Pakistan.

Minhas is seeing the ball excellently and he's hitting the ball anywhere due to the bowling from Sonny Baker.

They could make 310/315 now and with the new ball bowlers they have they could make it really difficult for the England batters.

Eeek, a horror over for Sam Curran.

Three fours to Arafat Minhas - two through the covers, and one is inches away from being a six over mid-wicket.

There's a wide in there too, and England are under a bit of pressure.

Well, well. South Africa are 216-6 at lunch on day three of the second Test in Gqeberha - something that did not look likely at 110-6.

Temba Bavuma and Marco Jansen have held firm, however.

Playing contrasting knocks, Bavuma is 76 not out from 189 balls and Jansen, who has never scored a professional century, has biffed his way to 72 not out from 71.

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Sonny Baker, bags of energy, continues.

Saad Baig neatly works the fourth delivery of his over through mid-wicket for a single to bring Hasan Nawaz on strike.

Relatively measured stuff from Hasan, though.

Four singles and two wides off the over.

The stands at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium look quite a bit fuller than they did at the start of play, so perhaps quite a few people drifting in when it's a little cooler and they have finished work.

Jamie Overton continues to plug away. The loyal workhorse for this period in the game.

Salman Agha opens the face to pick up a couple off the final delivery of the over.

It's short again from Sonny Baker and Saim Ayub takes on the hook shot.

However, the Pakistan batter does not make clean contact and ends up sending it high into the hazy sky

Sam Curran has to wait and age but manages to hang on.

A bit soft, but England are delighted.

Pakistan: Fakhar Zaman, Saim Ayub, Babar Azam, Saad Baig (wicketkeeper), Salman Agha, Hasan Nawaz, Arafat Minhas, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi (captain), Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah.

England: Tom Banton, Ben Duckett, Joe Root, Harry Brook (captain), Jordan Cox (wicketkeeper), Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Jamie Overton, Gus Atkinson, Adil Rashid, Sonny Baker