Broad strikes after England batting failure

The tourists lost six wickets for 52 runs before surprisingly declaring 96 behind on a first-innings 185-8.

But by the close, Stuart Broad had taken his match haul to six wickets in the Combined XI’s 90-5, leaving all outcomes feasible. On a day when expectations of attritional jockeying for position were confounded by the comings and goings of batsmen, only Alastair Cook (76) stayed for long.

He appeared to have put his team in position to push for a first-innings lead on a lunchtime 98-2. But that prospect evaporated as Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan, Cook, Steven Davies and finally Broad failed to cash in on what looked an obvious opportunity to prosper.

Cook fared by far the best in a 121-ball innings which contained 14 fours, but no-one else could reach 20. Fast bowler Hamid Hassan suffered a nasty injury chasing to the boundary to try to cut off the four which brought up the opener’s 50, and will play no further part. England agreed Ireland spinner George Dockrell could replace Hassan for the second innings, after the Afghan seamer had pitched over a picket fence on the boundary. He was eventually cleared of serious injury following a trip to hospital on a stretcher.

His absence had no bearing on England’s troubles, although before lunch there was barely a hint of the collapse to come.

The only alarm for Cook came when Boyd Rankin discomforted him with a well-directed short one early on. Soon afterwards, Andrew Strauss pulled Hassan into the hands of square leg and Jonathan Trott had only a single when he got a faint edge down the leg-side.

Pietersen needed 10 balls to get off the mark and the rationale was that England needed only patience, on a slow but benign surface, to take control.

Instead, Pietersen nibbled an outside edge off Rankin soon after lunch, and Bell’s attempt to glide runs behind square off his Warwickshire team-mate resulted in another catch behind when the 6ft 9in Irishman found extra bounce.

Then Morgan edged Mohammad Nabi’s off-break to slip and Cook toppled over and poked the blade down leg to be caught behind off Christi Viljoen.

Scotland off-spinner Majid Haq took a wicket with his first delivery – Davies lbw pushing forward – and Broad then unluckily picked out silly mid-off.

Graeme Swann and James Anderson avoided any more losses until, five minutes before the scheduled tea break, Strauss chose to declare almost 100 runs in arrears.

Broad and Anderson then served up useful new-ball spells as the Combined XI were reduced to 8-3 this time.

A stand of 40 between Kyle Coetzer and Mohammad Shahzad ended when the former played on to Anderson, as England pressed for wickets in this first warm-up match for the Test series against Pakistan.

England Lions lost by six wickets to Bangladesh A after being dismissed for 139 in Chittagong.

Disgraced former Pakistan pace bowler Mohammad Asif has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against his seven-year ban for spot-fixing.

The jailed seamer’s lawyers confirmed they have also filed an appeal against his criminal conviction to the Court of Appeal, having formally lodged an appeal against his ban by the International Cricket Council.