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Asked about being the first woman among the England coaches, she reveals a nice detail.
“The players just call me Coach,” she says, “which is how it should be.” As we had a shortened day yesterday, this is going to be a longer one.
Play still starts at 11, but the intervals are a bit later than usual – lunch at 1.15pm and tea at 4.10 – and the close may not be until 7pm.
In theory, there will be 98 overs in the day; in practice, this is England and they haven’t picked a specialist spinner, so their over rate may well be abysmal as usual.
Morning everyone and welcome to something that looks suspiciously like a proper contest.
After falling flat in Leeds, Pakistan came to Lord’s and stood tall.
They won the toss and bowled well from both ends as Mohammad Ali enrolled in the Mohammad Abbas school of exacting accuracy.
The fielding was patchy but good enough to restrict England to 248-9 on a surface that Stuart Broad had described as “probably a 250 pitch”.
Today, Pakistan have two jobs.
They need to take the last wicket: in an ideal world, Ali will tactfully leave that to Abbas, so he can take his rightful place on the honours board after collecting two four-wicket hauls here in 2018.
And then the batters, led by Babar Azam, have to knuckle down and make their way to a first-innings lead of about 100.
They don’t have the wind in their sails after Headingley, but they should have the weather on their side.
Apart from a shower or two in mid-afternoon, the forecast is mostly sunshine.
If you’re there, or even if you’re not, do say hello.
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