England 290 (Abbas 4-73) and 81 for 3 (Gay 30*, Shahzad 2-26) lead Pakistan 110 (Awais 46, Robinson 4-11, Archer 3-26) by 261 runs

On a day when 13 wickets fell, Robinson and Archer shared seven of them to bowl Pakistan out for 110 in their first innings, a deficit of 180 runs, with Imam-ul-Haq unable to bat after straining a calf muscle while fielding on the opening day.

When bad light stopped play just before 6.45pm on Friday, England were 81 for 3 in their second innings with Emilio Gay unbeaten on 30 and Harry Brook not out 7.

Robinson took a rockstar 4 for 11 in 13 overs, including six maidens, with unwavering accuracy and sublime seam movement.

Archer, meanwhile, hammered away with hostile speed and bounce, hitting 92mph/148kph with startling regularity and at times reaching 94mph/151kph. His miserly economy rate of 2.29 was overshadowed by Robinson’s 0.84 but Archer’s three wickets for 26 runs from 11.2 overs were no less valuable.

Resuming on 248 for 9 after bad light stopped play on the opening night, England’s last-wicket pair of Gus Atkinson and Josh Tongue batted for nearly an hour, building a 47-run partnership which took the hosts well past what would have been regarded as a par score on day one. When Atkinson sent a ball from left-arm spinner Ali Usman straight to long-off after a 46-ball 45, Tongue remained unbeaten with an impressive 30 off 48.

Both had time to catch their breath before entering the bowling attack as Robinson found some swing early and Archer struck the first blow. Shan Masood, opening in place of Imam, was glued to his crease as the ball came in full and at a blistering 91mph/146kph and ended up edging behind.

The first ball Abdullah Shafique faced was a menacing 92mph bouncer that rapped him on the hand as he ducked behind it and Archer continued to ramp up the pace, keeping Azan Awais on his toes in a menacing eighth over in which he hit 94mph.

Tongue entered the fray with 20 minutes left in the morning session, followed immediately by Atkinson.

The latter thought he had Awais first ball with a vicious bouncer collected behind the stumps by Jamie Smith, but the dismissal was overturned when replays showed the ball missed the bat and came off his shoulder. Atkinson should have had Awais next over, but Brook spilled it at second slip, and it was Tongue who made the breakthrough next over when Shafique edged behind, sending Pakistan to lunch at 16 for 2.

Babar Azam, the Pakistan captain back in the side after missing the first Test with a hand injury, managed just 8 before Tongue had him well caught by Jordan Cox at third slip.

Robinson got Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan lbw on review either side of a brief rain stoppage, which soon gave way to bright sunshine again. Archer was finally rewarded for keeping the pressure dialled up on Pakistan when he had Usman out chopping on.

Archer had been unforgiving against Awais, beating him outside off stump time and time again. Somehow the young opener gritted it out for a 106-ball stay yielding 46 runs and it was Robinson who ultimately broke him – with a bouncer, no less, pulled to square leg. That was the second in a double-wicket over costing just two runs for Robinson, who also had Khurrum Shahzad caught at second slip by Brook.

Archer endured a luckless 11th over when Joe Root failed to hold onto what would have been a spectacular catch at leg slip off Mohammad Ali, and then the same batter survived a DRS review for lbw that showed Archer’s inswinger was hitting the stumps, but impact was umpire’s call.

Archer closed his eyes and dropped his shoulders as though he could curl up and sleep for days when he ripped out Mohammad Abbas’s off stump with a nip-backer. With Imam unable to bat, that ended Pakistan’s innings after just 37.2 overs, the tourists 180 runs in arrears.

England made a frenetic start to their second innings, Ben Duckett feeding one to mid-off in the second over. Then, after two fours in three balls off Abbas, Cox – a half-centurion in the first innings – was pinned lbw to give Shahzad his second wicket in as many overs, following a successful review by Pakistan.

Root had to scramble back to avoid being run out after Gay sent him back as Usman fired the ball in from backward point. That was immediately after Pakistan lost a review for lbw against the England skipper, struck on the knee roll outside off stump by Abbas.

Root and Gay put on 47 runs together but Root reviewed in desperation – and in vain – when he was struck on the pad by Ali’s stock nip-backer, extending a worrying run of lbw dismissals for the England skipper to seven in his last nine innings.