England's Ben Stokes prepared and spoke on Wednesday (20th July) ahead of the Second Test against Pakistan at Old Trafford, Manchester, which begins on Friday (22nd July).

"Definitely, yeah, their seam bowlers have all got good skills. Wahab (Riaz) looked hard work the other day when he got the ball to reverse. And obviously Yasir Shah as well. He's the best leg-spinner I reckon since Shane Warne has been around. So they're a very good team but we'll come to this Test match and know that how he goes about his bowling and we should be able to counteract that."

"Fine, it's a really big game to sort of keep the series alive and take confidence going into the third Test. We want to win this game. Losing it is something that we can't afford to do but we've been playing really good Test cricket over the last two years - it's one defeat out of a lot of games that we've won anyway so we're not taking it too to heart, we've got to play this as a three-match series and hopefully we can win it."