England v Pakistan: Hosts win second Test by 330 runs to level four-match series
Second Test, Old Trafford, Day Four
England 589/8 & 173/1 dec - Alastair Cook 76*, Root 71*
Pakistan 198 & 234 - Anderson 3-41, Woakes 3-41, Moeen 3-88
England won by 330 runs
England thrashed Pakistan by 330 runs in the second Test at Old Trafford to level the four-match series at 1-1.
Pakistan were bowled out for 234 after Alastair Cook (76 not out) and Joe Root (71 not out) helped England declare on 173-1 to set a target of 565.
James Anderson and Chris Woakes took 3-41 and Moeen Ali 3-88 as Pakistan lost their last six wickets for 89 runs to lose on the fourth day.
Victory was England's second-biggest against Pakistan in terms of runs.
However, all-rounder Ben Stokes will have a scan on Tuesday after injuring a calf while bowling in the afternoon session.
Pakistan's highest stand was the 58 Mohammad Hafeez and Younus Khan put on for the third wicket, but both fell to Moeen in the space of six overs.
Mohammad Amir was last man out, removed by Woakes for 29.
The third Test at Edgbaston begins on 3 August.
Anderson fires England
England, who opted against enforcing the follow-on on Sunday, added 75 runs in nine overs in the morning after resuming on 98-1.
Root hit 10 fours in his 48-ball 71 to go with his first-innings 254, while Cook - 49 overnight - brought up his fastest Test half-century, off 55 deliveries.
Anderson, on his home ground, made early inroads as he had Shan Masood caught in the slips for the second time in the match before trapping Azhar Ali lbw, but Hafeez and Younus resisted for 15.1 overs.
With Stokes, who was injured during his follow-through, off the field, Moeen struck twice. He had Hafeez caught at short leg for 42 and Younus at long-on for 28.
Woakes then bowled Misbah-ul-Haq for 35, the skipper having put on 43 with Asad Shafiq.
After Sarfraz Ahmed became Woakes' second victim, Anderson and Moeen completed their three-wicket hauls by trapping Shafiq and Yasir Shah lbw respectively.
Part-time spinner Root then took a wicket with just his second ball, having Wahab Riaz caught at short fine leg.
Amir struck five fours in his 43-ball resistance, but Woakes finished things off by having him caught at mid-off when trying to drive.
'An absolute hammering' - what they said
Man of the match Joe Root on Test Match Special: "It's a great feeling. It's about contributing to wins. It's the most controlled I've played.
"The bowlers grafted really hard today and last night. It was a really good effort from all of the team. It sets it up nicely for the series."
More from England's Joe Root, who scored 254 and 71 not out, took four catches and claimed 1-0 with the ball, on Test Match Special:
"It's a great feeling. It's about contributing to wins - that's what it's all about. Those two occasions at Lord's it was batsman error on my part. I tried to cut that out of my game. It's the most controlled I've played.
"You've got to play the situation. It's only later on in the innings and this morning that I took the risks."
England captain Alastair Cook: "I was surprised the decision not to follow-on caused such a stir. To me it was a bit of a no-brainer. I think everyone else wanted a day off."
Former England captain Michael Vaughan: "It's an absolute hammering. It's been very similar to the Sri Lanka series, where England dominated with this kind of performance."
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq: "We have to improve in every department. We could not build pressure and let them score a massive total in the first innings.
"If we had restricted them to 350, we had a chance. But it was difficult to come back from 600."
Shaw Post would like to congratulate the England Cricket Team on their rather emphatic hammering of Pakistan by 330 runs at the Old Trafford Cricket ground in the second Test to tie the series at 1 -1 with two Test's to go.
It was great to see Joe Root get back to his best by top scoring for England in the first innings with 250 runs. In fact all the England batsmen seemed to play with more application of how to play spin as they declared just after tea on Day Two as they posted a very commanding 589/8 thanks to some top notch batting from Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes and Jonny Bairstow.
They then brilliantly restricted Pakistan to 57/4 by the end of Day Two as Chris Woakes took 3/18 and Ben Stokes took 1/11
On Day Three they came out and took the remaining Pakistan wickets for just 141 runs. James Anderson, on his home ground, removed Shan Masood for 39 courtesy of an edge to Root at second slip.
Asad Shafiq drove Stuart Broad loosely to backward point, Sarfraz Ahmed edged Ben Stokes to second slip to fall for 26 off 18 balls, and Yasir Shah followed one from Woakes to give Root, England's double centurion, his fourth catch.
Struck on the helmet by a Woakes bouncer, Misbah received valuable support from Wahab, who hit Moeen Ali for six during the highest partnership of the Pakistan innings.
Misbah, in attempting to dominate Moeen - as he did in the first innings at Lord's - top-edged a sweep to Cook at short fine-leg.
Wahab, who was hit on the left elbow by Woakes and did not bowl in England's second innings, swung Moeen to Hales at deep mid-wicket to end the innings.
After that came the rather questionable Alastair Cook decision to bat again when they maybe should have enforced the follow on.
It turned out be a master stroke decision as England powered on to end day three on 98-1.
On Day Four Alastair Cook and Joe Root came out in the first hour of the day and hit the ball with so much force to enforce another declaration and leave the Pakistani's with almost no hope of saving the match as they were set a deficit of 565 to win.
Pakistan then collapsed miserably be bowled out for 234 as they couldn't handle the sheer pace of James Anderson and Chris Woakes' bowling. They also couldn't handle Moeen Ali's and Joe Root's bowling trickery.
We wish the England Cricket Team the best of luck in the remainder of the series. Hopefully they can win the remaining two Test's to win the series 3 - 1.
It will be very interesting to see how Pakistan respond from this hammering as their confidence must surely have taken a bruising.
If there's one bowler that the Pakistani's don't want to face then it would have to be Liam Plunkett as he's another fast bowler who can ask lot's of question to the Pakistan batsmen with his fast paced bowling. He would be the perfect replacement for Ben Stokes who is going to have an MRI scan on his injured calf tomorrow.
