Pakistan go into day five as the favourites to secure an outright series victory against England, following a dominant fourth day from the hosts.
Pakistan punish substandard fielding
With Pakistan beginning the day on 146-3 (leading by 74) and the dogged Mohammad Hafeez still at the crease, England would have been well aware of the importance of quick wickets and not giving the hosts any opportunity to gain momentum.
However in the first moment of the day, a golden opportunity to dismiss Hafeez was squandered by stand-in wicketkeeper for the test match, Jonny Bairstow.
Hafeez failed on a rare occasion to find his footwork to an Adil Rashid googly however it also appeared the delivery after simply missing the stumps after a far from clean gather of the ball.
At the other end, Stuart Broad also put down another low-one handed chance from his own bowling in the morning session once Hafeez had passed his century on 113, following on from his overnight score of 97.
Hafeez added 93 runs with his overnight batting partner, Misbah Ul-Haq, until a determined and resilient Broad trapped the Pakistani captain lbw on the back foot for 38.
England spin expensive
Hafeez was eventually dismissed for 151 by Moeen Ali after chipping the ball to Ian Bell at at long-on and event though Samit Patel dismissed the frustrating Sarfraz Ahmed after notching up a run-a-ball 36 with a beauty of a delivery which pitched outside leg-stump and hit the top of off-stump. England's spin bowling, particularly that of Adil Rashid, was also below par on an increasingly favourable pitch to the slow bowler.
Rashid did manage to dismiss his opposite frontline spinner, Yasir Shah, but he suffered a frustrating day.
Furthermore, James Anderson dropped a straight forward chance looped straight up in the air from Asad Shafiq off the bowling of Rashid, which allowed him and Wahab Riaz to add more priceless runs to England's fourth innings target.
Ali and Bell wobble with the bat
Pakistani were eventually dismissed following the tea break for 355, leaving the tourist a target of 284 for victory, something which would have been England's highest ever successful 4th innings chase in the sub-continent.
Alastair Cook and Ali opening initially looked fairly comfortable, if conservative, at the crease until Shoaib Malik delivered a killer blow to England, dismissing Ali lbw following a lack of footwork from the struggling opener shortly before the close of play with 36 runs on the board. This then brought another out of form England batsman, Ian Bell, to the crease and into the spotlight, something which Pakistan pounced upon. Just 13 balls after te Ali dismissal, Malik once again proved to be England's nemesis, bamboozling Bell who was clean bowled.
England closed the day on 46-2, trailing Pakistan's victory target by 238. Pakistan require eight more wickets for victory. Alistair Cook (17*) and Joe Root (6*) resume a the crease in the morning for England.