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Pakistan v England, day two – in pictures

England Pakistan day 2: Pakistan's Taufeeq Umar is bowled by England's Stuart Broad
WICKET! Taufeeq 58 b Broad (Pakistan 114-1) That's a fantastic delivery from Broad, altogether too good for Taufeeq. Altogether too good for most batsmen, you'd wager. It pitched in line and then straightened up off the pitch, spat past the outside edge and knocked over off-stump. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images
England Pakistan day 2: Stuart Broad successfully appeals for the wicket of Pakistan's Azhar Ali,
WICKET! Azhar Ali 1 c Prior b Broad (Pakistan 128-2) Broad is in the thick of a lovely spell now, and he's had Azhar Ali caught behind off the outside edge. There was just enough movement off the seam to do for Ali there, as he leant forward to try and push the ball away square. Younis Khan is the new man in, and he has to survive an lbw appeal from his third ball, as Broad brings one back the other way and beats him on the inside. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
England Pakistan day 2: Graeme Swann celebrates after taking the wicket of Mohammad Hafeez LBW
WICKET! Pakistan 176-3 (Hafeez LBW b Swann 88) Swann has struck. Hafeez got in a mess by premeditating a sweep at a full, almost yorker-length delivery that hit him on the toe. It looked a really good shout, and Bruce Oxenford raised the finger. Hafeez decided to review the decision, hoping he had got outside the line. It was very close, but replays said it was the umpire's call and Hafeez's fine innings ends 12 short of a century. Photograph: Paul Childs/Action Images
England Pakistan day 2: Jonathan Trott of England celebrates dismissing Younis Khan of Pakistan
WICKET! Pakistan 202-4 (Younis LBW b Trott 37) Jonathan Trott comes on for Stuart Broad. A couple of part-time English dobbers – Trescothick and Bell – took their only Test wicket against Pakistan in Pakistan, so you never know. And Younis has gone! Hahaha. Trott has struck with his sixth ball. It was a routine, wicket-to-wicket delivery, and Younis missed it as he crabbed around his front pad. I thought he might have got outside the line, but Pakistan have only one review left and Younis decided not to risk it. Trott celebrates like a man who has found a wireless hotpot in the desert. What a bonus for England. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images
England Pakistan day 2: England wicket keeper Matt Prior catches out Pakistan's Asad Shafiq
WICKET! Pakistan 231-5 (Shafiq c Prior b Anderson 16) Jimmy Anderson strikes with the second new ball, thanks to a superb catch from Matt Prior. Shafiq pushed forward at a textbook awayswinger that flew off the edge, and Prior dived in front of first slip to take an excellent one-handed catch as the ball died on him. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
England Pakistan day 2: England's Graeme Swann celebrates dismissing Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq
WICKET! Pakistan 283-6 (Misbah LBW b Swann 52) Graeme Swann has picked up the captain Misbah in the penultimate over of the day! That is a mighty wicket for England. Misbah pushed forward defensively, well outside the line of a delivery that turned back to hit the front pad. Billy Bowden rejected England's appeal, and there seemed to be a fair bit of doubt: whether he was outside the line (although he arguably wasn't playing a shot), whether it turned too much, maybe even whether it would have bounced over. England went for the review, a little reluctantly in truth, and replays showed the ball just hit Misbah in line and would have gone to hit middle and leg three-fifths of the way up. Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images
England Pakistan day 2: Abdur Rehman is bowled by James Anderson
WICKET! Pakistan 288-7 (Rehman b Anderson 4) Jimmy Anderson finishes the day in style, bowling Rehman with a storming inswinger that roars through the gate to hit the top of off stump. Magnificent... Photograph: Hassan Ammar/AP
England Pakistan day 2: James Anderson celebrates after bowling Abdul Rehman
...Anderson goes on off a winding celebratory run, a big sloppy grin all over his face. It was the third ball of the over, but because of the wicket it will be the last ball of the day.
So Pakistan lead by 96 with three wickets remaining. They are still favourites, of course, but England are back in the game thanks to an admirable bowling performance that was full of discipline and class, not to mention both mental and physical strength. That was such an impressive response to a stinker of a day yesterday, not to mention a very difficult first hour today.
Photograph: Lakruwan Wanniarachchi/AFP/Getty Images
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