England vs Pakistan

All the build-up as England face Pakistan at Trent Bridge - on the same pitch where they smashed the ODI world record! “It’s really important we don’t go out there expecting to get 450-plus. We look at everything and the situation of the game. We need to judge accordingly, which is what we did very well in the first game. It wasn’t as flat as usual at The Oval.” ROOT says he loves playing in a team full of big hitters… “It makes my life a lot easier, if I’m being brutally honest. I like to think we complement each other as a batting group and take pressure off each other in different ways. That’s a reason we have been successful as a side for a while. Hopefully that can continue. We have worked really hard to be in this position and should embrace I felt pretty good in the first game – it wasn’t a straightforward wicket so I was happy for us to get up to a decent score. It will be new conditions today against a talented Pakistan side who will want to come back from a disappoint