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England v Pakistan: first men’s Test, day two – live updates

Updates from Headingley after rain delay Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tim In fact, that’s quite a decent, if soggy, rabbit hole to head down for an OBO discussion. The Butterfly Effect of rain delays. Which games and whose careers might have looked significantly different if the wet stuff hadn’t fallen at a particular time or other? I’ll wrack my brains, right now I’m just thinking of Tim Henman v Gor

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The Guardian
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England / United Kingdom
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20 Aug 2026, 18:29 UTC
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James Wallace at Headingley (earlier) and Tim de Lisle (now)
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England v Pakistan 2026
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Updates from Headingley after rain delay Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tim In fact, that’s quite a decent, if soggy, rabbit hole to head down for an OBO discussion. The Butterfly Effect of rain delays. Which games and whose careers might have looked significantly different if the wet stuff hadn’t fallen at a particular time or other? I’ll wrack my brains, right now I’m just thinking of Tim Henman v Gor
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    Updates from Headingley after rain delay Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Tim In fact, that’s quite a decent, if soggy, rabbit hole to head down for an OBO discussion. The Butterfly Effect of rain delays. Which games and whose careers might have looked significantly different if the wet stuff hadn’t fallen at a particular time or other? I’ll wrack my brains, right now I’m just thinking of Tim Henman v Gor

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    Updates from Headingley; play starts 11am BST Day one report | Sign up for the Spin | Mail Jim One win in England’s last 17 Tests. Those were the numbers that greeted Brendon McCullum and Ben Stokes when they took over in 2022, a reminder of just how bad things had ended under Joe Root. It was a statistic that gave the new boys permission to rip up the old order. So it’s easy to forget that precious one. It was near

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