Grim predictability blights Pakistan’s brief moments of light amid Test gloom | Andy Bull

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Razaullah offered the tourists a glimpse of audacity but it was Babar Azam who embodied the wider loss of hopeIt was still morning when Babar Azam came in to bat at Edgbaston. The Test was only 45 minutes old but you could already see which direction it was heading. Pakistan were three wickets down. The floodlights were on, a thick smear of black cloud was moving slowly over the ground, there were odd spots of rain in the air. Ollie Robinson was bowling from one end, with the keeper standing up