England's players have been warned to control their emotions on the field and vent any anger in the dressing room to avoid inflaming a similar situation to their infamous 1987 tour to Pakistan.

With sensitivities high on England's first full trip since Mike Gatting's confrontation with umpire Shakoor Rana 13 years ago, the tourists are desperate to avoid making an issue out of the officials' decisions.

Alec Stewart has already been spoken to by match referee Barry Jarman for the angry reaction he displayed after his dismissal during England's five-wicket victory in the opening one-day international in Karachi on Tuesday.

Stewart's response, after television replays indicated he had not touched Wasim Akram's delivery,inflamed the crowd and underlined the difficulties England could face on the remainder of the tour.

Captain Nasser Hussain is determined history will not repeat itself and will remind his side of the need to avoid displaying any dissent.

''I didn't see him lob his bat away and I've not seen replays of it because I was at the top of the steps making my way out to the middle. I thought it was such a quick delivery it blew his bat out of his hand,'' joked Hussain.

''Some people come into the dressing room and say nothing and other people will be stewing for half an hour, but you can only do that in the privacy of your own dressing room.''

Hussain insisted England had no problem with umpire Riazuddin standing in the opening Test at Lahore on November 15.

''Alec got a bad one, but we've all had bad ones and we're going to have to work hard to live through it now and through our careers and not just this tour,'' he said.

''Barry's had a quiet word with Alec. These things happen around the world. It's big news because it's Pakistan and in general, apart from that one decision, the umpires were very good the other night.

''They handled the pressure as well as anybody, were very amiable and friendly to both sets of players and we didn't have any problems with them.''

Hussain is expected to be fit enough to play in the second game of the one-day series at Lahore today after testing his injured left ankle during a practice under lights.

Providing he suffered no reaction to last night's work-out, England are expected to name an unchanged line-up. Otherwise they will be led by Stewart with Mark Alleyne or Vikram Solanki replacing Hussain.

Today's match and the final match of the series at Rawalpindi on Monday have both been brought forward two hours after concerns from Jarman that the side bowling second were at a disadvantage because of the heavy dew soaking the ball.

''I came down to have a look at the ground last night and dew was twice as bad here as it was in Karachi,'' explained Jarman. ''When you got down close to the grass, it just looked like a sheet of water and you could see it actually coming down out of the sky with the lights on.

''I wouldn't ask anyone to play under conditions like that, so we organised the TV guys and both teams, got together to have a chat and agreed to start at noon.

''I think it will make it fairer because the way things stood, if you won the toss you won the game. The ball was like a bar of soap the other night when the Pakistanis were bowling.

''By moving the game forward, the only time we should be affected by the dew should be in the last hour, which could make the ball a little slippy.''

England have been warned they face a backlash today from a line-up still smarting from losing to the fourth highest second innings total in history.

Needing victory at the Colonel Gaddafi Stadium to prevent a humiliating defeat in the three-match series, Pakistan have closed ranks and are determined to prove that Tuesday's setback was just a one-off.

''We're a lot more positive now,'' claimed captain Moin Khan. ''England's victory is bound to have given them a boost but we want to come back at them hard.

''We were really surprised how well England came back after losing a couple of early wickets to chase a score of over 300, but we've had a team meeting about it and we've decided on our strategy.''

Pakistan's biggest problem on Tuesday was their inability to grip the ball after it became saturated with the heavy dew.

''We had a problem with this three years ago when we had a four-nation tournament and it became a case of whoever batted last won the game because it was so wet,'' said Moin.

England (from): N Hussain (Essex, capt), M E Trescothick (Somerset), A J Stewart (Surrey, wkt), G A Hick (Worcestershire), G P Thorpe (Surrey), A Flintoff (Lancashire), C White (Yorkshire), M A Ealham (Kent), A F Giles (Warwickshire), A R Caddick (Somerest), D Gough (Yorkshire), M W Alleyne (Gloucestershire), V S Solanki (Worcestershire).

Pakistan (from): Saeed Anwar, Salim Elahi, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Yousuf Youhana, Shahid Afridi, Moin Khan (capt & wkt), Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mahmood, Wasim Akram, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Waqar Younis.