Tea Pakistan 108 for 0 (Shafique 54*, Imam-ul-Haq 52*) trail England 657 (Brook 153, Crawley 122, Pope 108, Duckett 107) by 549 runs
Imam launched Leach over the rope at deep midwicket to break a run of 11 dot balls from England’s premier spinner and Shafique advanced down the pitch to dispatch Jacks over long-on to bring up Pakistan’s fifty.
Shafique raised his half-century with a glorious drive to the cover boundary off Jacks, his seventh four of the innings, and Imam followed suit a short time later, pushing a Root delivery towards cover for a single.
Still trailing by 549 runs, the home side would have taken some encouragement from the pair’s unbroken century stand after a torrid time in the field.
England, with only one frontline spinner, served up 21 consecutive overs of slow bowling in all as captain Ben Stokes set attacking fields. Jacks fulfilled the part-timer role which helped secure him a Test debut when Ben Foakes failed to recover from the sickness bug which swept through the touring camp on match eve and Root reprised one he has played many times before with Liam Livingstone, England’s other debutant and sometime spinner apparently struggling with a leg problem and kept out of the attack.
It was all a precursor to James Anderson returning to try and extract some reverse swing. There wasn’t much on offer from the limited evidence of the one over he sent down before the interval but, having dominated the match up to lunch, England had still left the hosts with a mountain to climb.
England’s record-breaking innings came to an end on 657 with Brook the highest scoring of their four centurions. Having resumed on 101, he slugged his way to 153 in another staggering display by the visiting side.
The hosts managed to prise out the remaining six wickets by lunch, but not before England had added a further 151 runs, having already amassed 506 for 4, the most runs ever scored on the opening day of a Test match.
Stokes, who had taken England past that milestone with a brutal six over long-on off Mohammad Ali in the dying light on Thursday, unleashed another back over bowler Naseem Shah’s head off the second ball on Friday en route to 41 off 18 deliveries. He was out four balls later when Naseem took the pace off and took out the top of middle stump.
Zahid was lofted for six down the ground and into the second tier by a skipping Livingstone from the seventh ball he faced in Tests. But he faced just three more before holing out to deep square leg off Naseem.
Jacks missed Naseem’s yorker on the first ball he faced and was struck on the pad. But Pakistan’s review for lbw failed when the ball was shown to be going down the leg side.
Brook took to Zahid in a remarkable over, which went for 27 runs. Playing just his second Test, Brook reverse-swept Zahid for six over extra cover, swept the next ball fine for four, and reverse-swept again for another four. He wasn’t done yet either as he hammered the fourth ball for four through long on and lofted next for six back down the ground. Brook tried to go big once more on the last ball and while he miscued and sent a top-edged back over his own head, the ball trickled away for another three runs to compound Zahid’s woe.
Two fours in three balls off Naseem’s next over, the second of which split keeper and first slip for four, brought up Brook’s 150, although he lofted an attempted sweep next ball to Saud Shakeel at deep square leg to be out for 153 off just 116 balls.
Ollie Robinson took England past 600 with a six off Zahid down the ground before Jacks picked out Naseem at midwicket off Mohammad Ali after a 30-run cameo.
Robinson failed to overturn his lbw dismissal off Zahid for 37 and Anderson miscued Zahid’s googly straight to Imam-ul-Haq at deep square leg to be last man out.
Valkerie Baynes is a general editor at ESPNcricinfo