By Jonathan Agnew BBC cricket correspondent at Bristol

It was not Cardiff's fault that it rained, but the fact that the grass could not be dried in the dewy, drizzly conditions again reduced our attempts to stage day-night cricket to farcical proportions.

Asif is a cunning bowler who ambles in but can bowl a nasty bouncer

I will say it again - and keep saying it until the authorities finally accept it - that day-night cricket does not work here.

We do not need it in order to sell tickets, and the players - who deserve the best conditions in which to play at their best - certainly don't need it either.

Meanwhile, in what play was possible, Pakistan issued a further reminder of how different the Test series against England might have been had injury not robbed them of their leading pace bowlers.

The conditions at Sophia Gardens were tailor-made for swing and seam bowling, and Mohammad Asif and Rana Naved-ul-Hasan bowled in a manner that would have made traditional English pacemen like Geoff Arnold and Mike Hendrick proud.

It is very rare for Asian countries to produce this type of bowler - whose skills have been honed in county cricket - and to have two at the same time makes Pakistan a real threat wherever they play.

Asif is a cunning, scheming bowler who ambles in from a rather casual approach and yet - as Kevin Pietersen discovered - can bowl a nasty bouncer.

This is a key ingredient for a successful swing bowler because it prevents the batsman from simply lunging onto the front foot to negate the movement.

Pietersen played a particularly poor stroke to the ball after he was hit, and was caught behind.

Naved holds the seam high and bowls a slightly fuller length than Asif.

He defeated Ian Bell time after time as the ball swung away and only once showed that he had lost his patience when he bowled a bouncer which Bell pulled for four.

Bell stuck it out, but his failure to improvise means that he is unlikely to take an attack apart in one-day cricket.