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Pakistan edge ahead at Lord's

18:14 pm on 16 July 2016

Pakistan have the edge at stumps on day two of the first cricket test against England at Lord's.

Yasir Shah lodges an appeal. Photo: Photosport

The hosts suffered a middle order collapse to close at 253-7, 86 runs shy of Pakistan's first innings total of 339.

England sailed through to 118-1 before leg spinner Yasir Shah turned the the tide claiming his fifth five-wicket haul in 13 tests.

Shah is the first legspinner for 20 years to take five wickets in an innings at Lord's - the first since Mushtaq Ahmed, who is now Pakistan's bowling coach.

It was also a good day for Pakistan's Mohammad Amir, who was bowling for the first time in a test since being banned for spot-fixing.

He claimed the wicket of Alastair Cook for 81.

That prompted a clenched-fist celebration from Amir, who had served half of a six-month prison sentence and was banned for five years for deliberately bowling no-balls against England at the same ground in 2010.

Earlier, England all-rounder Chris Woakes notched his first five-wicket test haul to restrict the visitors to a moderate first-innings total.

Woakes, took 6-70.

-Reuters