“It’s been disappointing, we have been outplayed across all three departments. In particular disappointed with the bat first up. We were always chasing the game from there, really, trying to find a way back in,” said Root of England’s back-to-back batting collapses.

The first time out, they rolled over for 184, and were 110-6 in the second innings before half-centuries from Jos Buttler (67) and Dom Bess (57) took them to 242. It was still not enough as Pakistan had a chase of 64 in the final innings, which they pulled off without much fuss.

Root also stressed that fans must keep believing in the team, and that good things are around the bend for England.

“We know we are underperforming and that is very difficult to take,” he said. “We have a very talented group of players and we fully believe we can get to where we want to be. It would be very easy going into next week feeling sorry for ourselves and thinking that there is no way forward, but there absolutely is.

“It’s a great opportunity to get a good result and move forward for the rest of the summer. We’ve got to turn things around, we’ve got to be clever about how we do things. We’ve got to be smarter in certain situations.”

The second and final Test begins at Headingley on June 1.