Razaullah’s thrilling knock included nine sixes, tying the record for the most maximums in an innings by a batter on Test debut.
He also equalled Stokes’ record for the most sixes in a Test played in England.
There were times when Root looked devoid of ideas, while the energy was sapped from his team. Jofra Archer cut a frustrated figure when Razaullah hit him for successive straight sixes and at one point Gus Atkinson was asked to bowl bouncers with eight fielders on the boundary.
“We shouldn’t be surprised by England, they’ve delivered tactically like this on a regular basis,” said ex-England captain Michael Vaughan.
“I think they’ll win this game but they can’t keep making mistakes like that. The basics of Test cricket generally work and that’s to hit the top of the stumps. It’s a bit of a warning sign that this attack is very good but they aren’t the finished article just yet.
“Who are the characters in the team who are going got grab a hold of everyone and say, ‘right, I’m going to make a moment’. I didn’t see it from anyone today.”
At one stage Root left the field for an opportunity to consult with the England backroom staff, although it did little to alter the course of the evening.
Eventually, Abbas poked the pace of Josh Tongue to point before Razaullah was stumped off Lawrence from the final ball of the day to leave Pakistan 453 all out.
“I’m disappointed, of course,” said Trescothick. “We were in a position where they were eight down and the scores were level. We were hoping to go through them pretty quickly.
“We tried many different things. You have variations of plans. We bowled the short ball for a period of time, then length for a period of time, then a bit of spin. You’re always chopping and changing, with various ideas.
“You’d always like to think you can do it better and you analyse it afterwards saying, ‘right, was there an area or tactic we missed to get it right?’ You hope in those situations when you bowl it in the right place, which we did on many occasions, that you get the nick or bowl them. Fair play, they played pretty well.”
