Although England won the second Test with the utmost efficiency, this Test series – which resumes on Wednesday at Edgbaston at 1-1 - is far from over for three main reasons.

Ben Stokes is absent, for the rest of this series, with a right calf injury. England’s specialist batting is over-dependent on Alastair Cook and Joe Root, whose 254 at Old Trafford was as near to perfect as a long yet attacking Test innings can be; and while England hold all the aces, most notably their seam attack, Pakistan still hold the trump card.

The impact of Stokes was apparent in the two half-Tests he played this summer - when England won by an innings at Headingley against Sri Lanka and by what could have been an innings at Old Trafford against Pakistan – and even more apparent when he was injured.