Pakistan skipper Salman Butt wins the toss and decides to bat - the tourists drop wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal and bring in Zulqarnain Haider for his debut and also select spinner Saeed Ajmal but leave out Mohammad Yousuf
First-Test hero James Anderson, playing his 50th Test, appeals for an lbw decision against Imran Farhat as England restrict Pakistan to 8-0 after half an hour on a good morning for swing bowling at Edgbaston
Stuart Broad makes the breakthrough with a wicked delivery which finds the edge of Farhat's bat and flies into wicketkeeper Matt Prior's gloves - Pakistan, 1-0 down in the four-match series, are 8-1
Skipper Butt is next to depart after flashing hard at a probing Steven Finn delivery and edging the ball to Graeme Swann at second slip - Pakistan may be rueing the decision to bat first
Anderson joins the party, having Shoaib Malik caught superbly by a diving Prior in front of first slip and leaving Pakistan in disarray on 12-3
Azhar Ali fails to score from his first 31 balls and is dismissed off his 32nd when Broad nips one back into his pads, although Hawk-Eye suggests it may have struck him outside the line of off-stump
Umar Akmal hits a rare attacking stroke for six but is out for 17, with Finn taking his second wicket after winning an lbw appeal and leaving Pakistan 33-5
Broad, ploughing a nagging line outside off-stump, takes his third wicket by having wicketkeeper Haider caught behind for a golden duck and Pakistan are a miserable 37-6 at lunch
Paul Collingwood's fielding has been superb during the series and here he takes another fine catch to dismiss Umar Amin for 23 and Pakistan are 63-7
Alastair Cook takes a superb overhead diving catch to dismiss Mohammad Amir and Pakistan are soon all out for 72, their lowest score against England, when Anderson removes Mohammad Asif for a duck for his fourth wicket
England get to 44-0 but then Cook lobs an attempted pull straight to second slip and is out for 17 as his poor run with the bat continues
England skipper Strauss has to go for 25 after Pakistan win a referral after the batsman is initially given not out. Replays show the finest of inside edges and Mohammad Amir has his man
Kevin Pietersen's struggle for runs continues and he is dropped twice, badly at mid-on by Umar Gul after a lofted drive and then by wicketkeeper Haider off an inside edge
Jonathan Trott looks composed on his home ground and reaches 31 not out, sharing an unbroken stand of 68 with Pietersen, when bad light stops play with England 40 runs ahead of Pakistan
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