Multan: England took two wickets just before lunch to restrict the hosts to 397-6 on the second day of the first Test in Multan on Tuesday.
Resuming on 328-4, Saud Shakeel and nightwatchman Naseem Shah frustrated the visitors during a fifth-wicket stand of 64 before Naseem was caught at leg slip by Harry for 33 to give debutant Brydon Carse his first wicket in test match.
Mohammad Rizwan followed for a 12-ball duck in a session where England bowling witnessed only 69 runs scored in 26 overs.
Saud Shakeel, who hit 6 fours and faced 133 balls, was unbeaten at lunch on 67, his 7th fifty in test cricket. Salman Agha had yet to score.
Jack Leach, who picked up the wicket of Muhammad Rizwan caught at mid-off by Chris Woakes, has 2-79 and Gus Atkinson 2-88. Woakes and Carse have one wicket each. England toiled hard for the first breakthrough in the morning session as Saud Shakeel and Naseem Shah started off cautiously to blunt the second new ball following Babar Azam had been dismissed late Monday.
After just 21 runs were made from the first ten overs, Naseem Shah opened up with a six off Shoaib Bashir and then blasted another off Leach.
Carse got his breakthrough 25 minutes before lunch to dismiss Naseem Shah and leave Pakistan 388-5. Rizwan fell just three overs and 5 runs later.
