“Pakistan batted well and put on some pressure after lunch. But I think if it went that way in another test, we probably would have had them eight or nine down in a couple of sessions,” he added.
Archer was one of the most successful English bowlers and returned with the impressive figure of 3/59. Despite the wickets, his lack of pace in the first Test became one of the talking points.
While everyone thought that the pitch was on the slower side, the Pakistani pacers put on perfect exhibition of how to extract fire. Even 17-year-old Naseem Shah bowled with brute pace on the second day. The Pakistani spinners also got help from the surface.
“It’s not every day you will bowl 90 miles an hour. No-one is a robot,” Archer said.
