Trott finds secret to survival
Only Jonathan Trott and Stuart Broad could withstand Mohammad Aamer's expert swing bowling to help England salvage a teatime 185 for seven on the second day of the fourth npower Test at Lord's.
Aamer's six for 47 is the second-best Pakistani analysis on this ground, and he has become the youngest bowler ever to reach 50 Test wickets.
Yet at a venue where Trott made a double-hundred against Bangladesh earlier this summer, he responded with a typically earnest and hard-earned 77 not out to rescue the hosts from a perilous 47 for five, while Broad reached the break on 46.
England's duck-laden middle order had no answer to Aamer, as the 18-year-old belied his age to make such telling use of cloudy conditions and tame the Lord's slope like an old hand.
He took three wickets for no runs in five balls as England, restricted by rain to only an hour's batting yesterday, suffered a nightmare first 20 minutes today.
Trott and Matt Prior then stayed put for a half-century stand - and after Aamer again took two wickets in an over after lunch, Broad gave Trott more precious assistance in an unbroken partnership of 83.
