tempo

“One can hear the essences of all of those bandstands, concert jobs, dances, parties and jam sessions in the freedom of his beat and command of tempo,” critic Stanley Crouch, a drummer himself, wrote for the online magazine Slate.

"We spoke about what went well, and to raise our tempo and our level in the second half to break the wall. That's what they did."

“In my heart of hearts, my DNA,” Cronin said, “I’m liking to dictate the tempo of the game with my defense.”

The Northern Irishman said he was "raging" his team had given possession away and cited issues with their tempo.

The tourists' spinners were no match for the home tweakers, while England's batters struggled for the right tempo on the Rawalpindi pitch, possibly spooked by all the talk of a raging turner.