Pakistan end Day 3 on 499/7, trailing by 185 runs

As many as three centuries were made on the third day of the Rawalpindi Test, as Pakistan responded with a decent 499/7 to England’s 657. Babar Azam’s 136 followed the efforts of Imam-ul-Haq (121) and Abdullah Shafique (114), who both converted their overnight knocks into their third Test century each en route a gigantic 225-run stand. The visitors had to put in the hard yards on the unresponsive Rawaplindi deck and found success in two spurts – once in the morning session which yielded three wickets and later in the final session which reaped four before bad light forced an end to the action.