Fallout begins after Lord's thumping

Coach Trevor Bayliss said England's batting at Lord's was "nowhere near good enough for Test level" and the hosts are reportedly set to swing the selection axe already after slumping to a 23-year low on Sunday.

Pakistan's dominant nine-wicket win at Lord's in a little more than three days represents the first time since 1995 that England have lost the opening Test of the summer.

The international season has barely even begun but the UK Telegraph is reporting that out-of-sorts opener Mark Stoneman is already set to be dumped and replaced by fellow left-hander Keaton Jennings.

England's batting performance at Lord's was dominated by significant batting collapses; 6-35 in the first innings and then 4-19 and 4-6 in the second.

Their efforts followed seven winless Tests in Australia and New Zealand over the northern winter where they lost their first five wickets for fewer than 150 runs on six occasions, including 58 all out in Auckland.

Bayliss conceded the scars of those previous collapses could have contributed to the performance in London.

"Usually when we lose one or two quick ones it usually follows with another two or three so that's something we have sit down and continue to work on," he said.

"It was very disappointing, especially from a batting point of view. It was nowhere near good enough for Test level. Pakistan bowled well but we have to be better.

"We keep making the same mistakes.

"The batters have to have a good, hard, long look at themselves."

Stoneman was twice out in single figures at Lord's and the Telegraph is reporting Jennings is ahead of uncapped Middlesex opener Nick Gubbins if England are to make a change.

Jennings, who scored a hundred on Test debut in 2016, has opened the County Championship season with two centuries from five games for Lancashire and he added another hundred at the start of the domestic one-day campaign.

Stoneman and Alastair Cook are, statistically, England's worst Test opening partnership, the duo averaging just 18.75 for the first wicket, the lowest average of any of the 16 England opening pairs that have batted together on at least 20 occasions.

However, captain Joe Root warned against calls for mass player turnover so early in the season.

"It's easy to look at (this result) and say 'right, we need to make drastic changes'," he told BBC's Test Match Special.

"But it's not just one or two guys - we were collectively all under par this week.

"There have been a number of collapses recently and we have to find a way as a group.

"We are ambitious, we want to win but sometimes we make poor decisions. We've got to be smarter with that. Guys have got to find a way of scoring runs."

The second Test starts at Headingley on Friday.