Struggling Trescothick is left out

Ed Joyce, the Middlesex batsman, comes in for the Somerset left-hander for his second one-day international appearance.

Rikki Clarke has also been dropped to make way for Michael Yardy, of Sussex, who becomes the eighth player to make their one-day international debut for England this summer.

Graham Onions, the Durham seamer called into the squad on Sunday following Darren Gough’s withdrawal with a shin injury, was again overlooked and must wait for his debut.

Instead, England kept faith with a seam attack featuring Sajid Mahmood, Jon Lewis and Stuart Broad as they attempt to claim their first victory in the last 11 limited overs matches.

When the play got underway, England put in their best one-day bowling performance of the summer.

They were given a perfect start by Lewis, the Gloucestershire seamer, while the Pakistan powerhouses in the middle order were prised out by a new-look spin attack.

Only a devastating late assault from Abdul Razzaq, who masterminded an astonishing spell of 69 runs from the final four overs, hauled the tourists to a challenging 235 for eight.

Five huge sixes off Sajid Mahmood and Lewis in the final two overs saw Razzaq finish unbeaten on 75, at better than a run a ball.

Inzamam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, won his fourth toss in a row in the day-nighter but altered the regular pattern of the campaign to date by choosing to bat first. Lewis struck twice early on as England made an impressive start in their bid to stay in a five-match campaign they trail 2-0 with two to play.

Mahmood also removed Shahid Afridi to ensure Rikki Clarke, on as a substitute, did not live to regret his dropped catch in the deep.

England were given a fillip in only the second over when Lewis found the outside edge of Mohammad Hafeez’s bat.

Having twice blazed through the off-side for four off Stuart Broad, Hafeez chased another wide delivery only to slice to Andrew Strauss, the England captain, at first slip.

Afridi was promoted to open and began undeterred by the loss of the early wicket, lofting straight down the ground for six off Broad to get off the mark.

But ball prospered once again in the fourth over as Younis Khan, fresh from a century at the Rose Bowl, nibbled at one and was held by Paul Collingwood, stationed at second slip.

England might have rued their luck when, after a couple of powerfully-struck Afridi boundaries, a spiralling top-edge off Lewis was floored by Clarke - on for Ed Joyce, who was receiving treatment for a grazed knee - at third man.

However, Mahmood nipped one back in the next over, the 11th of the innings, to trap Afridi leg before.

In typical fashion Inzamam continued at his own pace undeterred alongside Mohammad Yousuf, three times hitting Mahmood for four in one over to alter the tempo temporarily.

Although the fourth-wicket pair stabilised things, when Yousuf jabbed the ball into his stumps to give debutant Yardy a maiden success it began a collapse.

Two balls later Shoaib Malik squeezed back a simple return chance and the same mode of dismissal accounted for Inzamam, three runs short of his half-century, off Jamie Dalrymple, the off-spinner, in the next over.

Having lost three wickets for two runs in 11 balls, Pakistan were firmly on the back foot and, although Strauss missed three difficult chances, they were kept in check until Razzaq’s late pyrotechnics.

Strauss did hold on at slip to hand Yardy impressive figures of three for 24.

And even though Shoaib Akhtar did provide Pakistani cheer by hauling Dalrymple into the stands at deep midwicket, he perished the ball after Strauss put him down at cover, via a top edge to third man off Broad.