James Anderson bounces back with wicket of Shan Masood but England regret dropped catches

James Anderson bounced back from an unhappy performance at Old Trafford last week to strike with his eighth ball of the day when the second Test match got underway at the Ageas Bowl. He nipped a ball back into the pads of left-hander Shan Masood — who batted almost eight hours for 156 in the first Test — to claim his wicket for the seventh time in five meetings.

England might have added a second wicket in the following over from Stuart Broad but Abid Ali’s thick edge was spilled at third slip by Dom Sibley, moving to intercept a ball which might have carried nicely to Rory Burns — another instance of the slips standing too close together.

Later, when Chris Woakes entered the