MANCHESTER, July 26: England's under-pressure wicket-keeper Geraint Jones heads into the second Test against Pakistan starting at Old Trafford here Thursday knowing the side need him to deliver with both bat and gloves.

The lack of runs from the tail has been magnified by the recent form of Jones, selected as England keeper ahead of Chris Read on account of his superior batting, who has scored just one fifty in his last 14 Test innings.

“Down my end of the order a lot of the time you can set the team up and help them get a decent total,” Jones, a member of the England players' management committee, said.

“That pressure for runs is there. That's something we were very good at and that has slipped a little bit with myself not scoring the volume of runs I'd like to.

“It's up to me to go out there in this Test and put my hand up, but I think that's something I've been good at all the way along - when the pressure's been on in a situation I've gone out there and really contributed well,” the Kent gloveman added.—AFP