Ollie Robinson’s feats against Pakistan have still to convince England’s old guard | Andy Bull

Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson have praised the bowler’s exploits this summer, but question whether he can do it against better teams on flatter pitches There was a Pakistan fan walking around Edgbaston carrying a small blackboard on the second day . “Free Imran Khan ...” he’d written on it, “and get him in the team.” He stopped to talk about it with a couple of the police officers standing guard around the back of the pavilion.

“I’d like to report a crime,” he told them, “by the 11 players out there on the field.” The officers chuckled. “Not much I can do about that for you, sorry.” Even their supporters seemed to have reached the point where they just want this tour to be over already.

With dismal inevitability the weather turned by the time Pakistan actually got out to bat in their second innings, and the bright sunshine which lit up England’s batting through the afternoon had been occluded by a bank of heavy grey cloud which had blown up from the south-west. They turned the floodlights on just in time for Saim Ayub and Azan Awais to go out and face up to another new-ball burst from Ollie Robinson and Jofra Archer.

The lights didn’t help any, if anything they only made it easier to see what was coming.

Read the original report at The Guardian.