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The state of play

England will resume on 239 for 6, still 127 runs behind, after losing four wickets in an exhilarating final hour that changed the mood of the whole series.

That in the last four years the selection committee has had more members than The Fall.

That their pivot from a pace-dominated bowling attack to picking seven spinners was less a volte face, more a volte farce.

That replacing Pakistan’s best player with an uncapped 29-year-old was the essence of madness.

That you could leave them alone in a brewery for 48 hours and they would emerge sober, whistling Happy Go Lucky Me.

That they are unable to distinguish between their elbow and their hindquarters.