Day 4: England fight back to beat Pakistan

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Agnew presents from Old Trafford where England produced an incredible comeback to snatch victory from Pakistan. Chasing 277, England looked all but beaten at 117-5, but pushed on by a Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler partnership of 139, they claimed a thrilling win by 3 wickets. Michael Vaughan, Azhar Mahmood, Mark Ramprakash and Simon Mann look at where it was won and lost. Aggers speaks to the respective captains Joe Root and Azhar Ali, as well as England heroes Buttler and Woakes, while TMS statistician Andy Zaltzman gives a historical perspective to England's win.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.9	This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:10.8	I'm Jonathan Agnew, welcome to the Tessmatch Special Podcast,
0:13.6	an hour review of a thrilling final day of the old traffic test.
0:17.3	Well, a plenty of reaction to England's three-wicked win
0:19.9	hearing from Joe Root, Jos Butler, Chris Wokes and Azah Alley.
0:23.2	The first of thoughts of Michael Vaughn, Azah Mahmoud
0:25.8	and Mark Rambrichesh with Simon Mann.
0:28.3	You're listening to the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.
0:34.2	Well, just a wonderful game of cricket.
0:36.2	It really is. I'm just looking down at the outfield here,
0:38.4	Graham Thorpe having a few words with his forward teammate
0:41.6	and Wakao Unises down there as well.
0:46.2	They will know that this has been a fantastic contest.
0:49.5	Of course, Pakistan, huge favourites with that lead.
0:52.8	First thing is, lead of 107 that was largely down
0:57.0	to Sean Masood's 150.
1:00.4	But England fought back and to bowl out to Pakistan
1:03.4	and the up chasing 277 that we all thought,
1:06.8	well, the odds were that England wouldn't make it.
1:09.0	This cricket, when we looked at it this morning,
1:11.5	very, very dry, lots of footmarks, dusty footmarks.
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