Sunday 17 July 2016 23:46, UK
How do you execute the perfect press-up?
Fortunately David Lloyd was on hand to offer Misbah-ul-Haq and his team some advice in this area - although whether the tourists will remember it after their 75-run triumph at Lord's is an entirely different matter.
Here's what else we learned from four days at Lord's...
Who needs the UAE?
Ok - Lord's has long been an inspiration to touring teams but few first-timers make such a mark as skipper Misbah-ul-Haq and leggie Yasir Shah, playing at HQ in his first Test away from Asia.
Pre-Test doubts about how Pakistan's batsmen would fare in English conditions remained unanswered at 77-3 in the first innings (and still do in the case of the openers' slots) but enter masterful Misbah to muscle his side to a more than satisfactory total.
At 42 years and 47 days, he'd seen and done most things in cricket apart from play a Test in England and the manner in which he blunted England's attack en route to becoming the third oldest player to hit three figures at Lord's was indomitable.
Fine - his celebratory press-ups may have been a little flawed but Bumble soon put him right on that score. Pakistan will experience different conditions will differ at Old Trafford, Edgbaston and the Oval but if anything that could well play into the hands of a certain leg-spinner…
Yasir's just getting started
If Yasir can get a first-innings six-for on a gentle Lord's surface... Shane Warne has long been a cheerleader of his but the manner in which Yasir exposed England's long-held frailty against leg-spin was at best unnerving, at worst (for English fans) potentially series-defining even for a bowler who has taken more wickets in 13 Tests than anyone else in history.
Joe Root's ill-judged slog-sweep might have got the ball rolling, but such was Yasir's masterful control of drift and turn that the slow bowler's success had a strong sense of inevitability about it.
Playing positively, using your feet and hitting straight is all well and good but when positivity masks recklessness (Moeen Ali), you're going to get burnt. Amid all the brouhaha of Yasir's success, the pre-Test soul-searching surrounding Mohammad Amir's return to Test cricket evaporated into a ripple of polite Lord's applause.
Woakes is 'un-droppable'
South Africa suddenly seems an age away and that's all credit to Woakes' endeavour and mettle. Since claiming two wickets in as many tests on that tour, the Warwickshire all-rounder is a player transformed - proving plenty of people who thought he was no more than a county player wrong in the process.
Suddenly the prospect of Woakes and Stokes running out at Old Trafford is a real one after the former claimed the best figures for England against Pakistan at Lord's since Ian Botham's 8-34 in 1978 with valuable first-innings runs.
Extra zip, tighter control and a new-found confidence in the Test arena all added up to a well-merited first 10-wicket Test match haul and suddenly the out-of-sorts Steven Finn (badly out of luck on Saturday) and newcomer Jake Ball (impressive without dazzling) look the most vulnerable with Stokes and Anderson poised to return.
A fairway to go
It's a little over a year since Trevor Bayliss took charge of England and despite an Ashes success and nerve-wrenching run to the World T20 amongst other highlights, the Australian is honest enough to admit that England are far from the finished article - particularly in the field of shot selection. You might say the same about Bayliss' golf game, but that would be harsh - especially when compared to Keysey's putting!
While chatting to Ian Ward, Bayliss revealed that in previous talks Root had pushed back at the chance to batting at three but not this time.
Looking back over the years, he has big shoes to fill, not least those of Jonathan Trott who demonstrated his own golfing prowess by tearing up the Sky Sports Golf Zone during our coverage of the 145th Open Championship - landing his tee shot at the Postage Stamp par-three eighth at Royal Troon within gimme distance of the hole.
Despite two rash dismissals, Root's future at three is secure and sound as Bayliss' down-to-earth philosophy.
Athers attracts Alsatians
Not a phrase I'd ever thought I'd write but one worth leading with after an amusing incident during filming for our new feature on the great Imran Khan.
During one serious piece to camera that had to be done in just one take, a rather large hound took a particular liking to our pundit and began sniffing around, Athers just about fending off the dog's unwanted attentions while completing the job, true pro that he is.
Imran had stiff competition from another supreme sportsman in the 'feature of the Test' category from AB de Villiers, who spent time over the winter giving Nasser the inside track on his stellar career including some quality insights into his batting drills.
Reports that Nas soldiered on during filming despite the disturbing presence of a wildebeest remain unfounded. Part one of our Saturday Story - The Jackman Affair - was equally hard-hitting, re-telling the story of one of England's most controversial tours of all time, to West Indies in 1981.
Watch day one of the second Test between England and Pakistan live on Sky Sports 2 from 10am on Friday.
