Third Rothesay Test, Edgbaston (day 3 of five)
Pakistan 133 (Tongue 4-42) & 449 (Masood 95, Razaullah 81, Babar 76, Awais 59)
England 453 (Brook 75, Smith 69, Lawrence 65, Gay 60, Robinson 50; Razaullah 4-148)
England request 130 runs to win
England look a pursuit of 130 to triumph the 3rd Test aft Pakistan debutant Razaullah produced immoderate thrilling absorption connected time 3 astatine Edgbaston.
Pakistan had battled to 318-8, inactive 2 runs behind, with perchance much than 2 hours of play remaining erstwhile Razaullah, the tourists' fig nine, launched a sensational assault.
The 21-year-old's audacious 81 frazzled England and propelled Pakistan to 449.
Razaullah clubbed a 43-ball half-century. His 9 sixes tied Ben Stokes' grounds for the fig of maximums successful a Test innings successful England.
He shared an eighth-wicket basal of 121 with Muhammad Abbas, who whacked 2 sixes of his ain successful his 42. Finally, Razaullah was stumped disconnected Lawrence to extremity the time and awesome the opening of England's pursuit connected Saturday.
Pakistan deserved to resistance the lucifer into a weekend, restoring a modicum of pridefulness to what has been a shambolic tour.
England mightiness person won wrong 2 days had it not been for atrocious upwind connected Thursday. From 55-2 overnight, 268 behind, Pakistan did not capitulate connected Friday.
Shan Masood and Azan Awais extended their third-wicket basal to 125 until Awais tickled the off-spin of Dan Lawrence down the limb broadside for 59.
Masood added different 89 with skipper Babar Azam. The left-hander was denied a period connected 95 erstwhile Lawrence took a spectacular one-handed drawback astatine gully disconnected Gus Atkinson.
Babar was classy for his 76, yet was discomforted erstwhile England went to a short-ball program either broadside of tea. His dismissal to a Josh Tongue bouncer seemed to corroborate a three-day finish, but Razaullah had different ideas.
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