LONDON: Ireland have the chance to pull off one of the biggest upsets in Test history after another England batting collapse on Thursday set the scene for a thrilling finish at Lord´s.

When lightning flashes and downpour cut off the subsequent day's play at 6:10 pm nearby time (1710 GMT) in a match planned for four days instead of the typical five for a Test, England were 303-9 in their subsequent innings, a lead of 181 runs. 

That spoke to a goliath improvement for their mortifying first-innings 85 hard and fast however indeed their batsmen battled in front of one week from first Ashes Test. 

England had been well-put at 171-1 second time around, a score based on a second-wicket remain of 145 between nightwatchman Jack Leach, who made 92, and Test debutant Jason Roy (72). 

In any case, England's top-request let them down once more, with seven wickets succumbing to 77 runs either side of tea as they drooped to 248-8 on a ground where only 11 days sooner they had won the World Cup. 

Sam Curran, not without precedent for his short vocation, at that point included significant lower request keeps running with an energetic 37 highlighting two sixes before he holed out and Stuart Broad was 21 not out at stumps. 

England continued Thursday on their medium-term 0-0 after Ireland had made 207, highlighting Andrew Balbirnie's 55. 

Unforeseen opener Leach, who endure a Murtagh lady on Wednesday, played watchfully yet took advantage of any free conveyances. 

Left-hander Rory Burns succumbed to six when he pushed hard at a Boyd Rankin conveyance and edged a straightforward catch to wicketkeeper Gary Wilson. 

- Roy assaults - 

Roy, hoping to make England's concern position of Test opener his own in the wake of featuring in their World Cup triumph, off-drove a four off paceman Mark Adair and lifted off-spinner Andy McBrine for six. 

Filter went to 47 with a straight-determined four off Stuart Thompson before his edged limit through third man off the medium-pacer saw the Somerset left-arm spinner, playing his first Test at home, to his fifty. 

Roy cut Thompson for his seventh four to finish a 47-ball fifty in simply his second Test innings however the assaulting batsman was denied a century on presentation by a Thompson in-ducker that bowled him. 

The bespectacled Leach, having outperformed his past top of the line best of 66, was dropped twice until in the long run a guarded edge was held by Adair off the bowling of Murtagh. 

Filter, who had been in sight of an accomplishment that escaped batting greats Brian Lara, Ricky Ponting and Sachin Tendulkar - a Test hundred at Lord's - strolled gradually off to an overwhelming applause in the wake of batting for 220 minutes and confronting 162 balls, hitting 16 fours. 

England endured a self-incurred wound when Joe Denly was run out in the wake of being sent back by commander Joe Root when the captain was 66% of the path down the pitch. 

The amazing Adair (3-66) at that point had Jonny Bairstow lbw for a duck. 

Root, whose 31 took 64 balls, attempted to separate the shackles by going the pitch to Adair just to see an edged drive all around got high on his right side by the jumping Wilson.