Pakistan skipper Babar Azam smashed 196 and Mohammad Rizwan 104 not out to deny Australia victory Wednesday and force a dramatic draw in the second Test in Karachi.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Pakistan pair put the home team well on course for a draw, but spinner Nathan Lyon turned the match on its head by dismissing Azam and Faheem Ashraf with successive deliveries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lyon came on to bowl the third of the 15 mandatory remaining overs of the match, and with his fourth delivery had Azam glove a catch to Marnus Labuschagne at forward short-leg.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Next ball Lyon had Ashraf caught at slip to raise hopes of an Australian win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The late-hour drama also saw Usman Khawaja drop Rizwan on 91 off luckless spinner Mitchell Swepson with 18 balls left in the match.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The pugnacious Rizwan, in company of tailender Nauman Ali (nought), batted out 46 balls during their 29-run stand for the eighth wicket to keep the three-match series tied at 0-0.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The first Test also ended in a draw in Rawalpindi, while the third and final Test will start in Lahore from Monday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Azam's score become the best-ever fourth innings by a captain, surpassing Mike Atherton's 185 for England against South Africa in 1995.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
His score is also the highest fourth-innings individual total by a Pakistani, erasing the 171 not out Younis Khan made against Sri Lanka in Pallekele in 2015.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The Pakistan skipper added an invaluable 228 runs for the third wicket with Abdullah Shafique (96) and another 115 for the fifth with Rizwan, keeping Australia's spin-cum-pace attack at bay.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Rizwan hit 11 boundaries and a six.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
With Pakistan falling 63 short of the 506-run target, the record for the highest chase in all Test cricket remains with the West Indies who scored 418 against Australia at Antigua in 2003.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Azam's knock frustrated Australia and their skipper Pat Cummins who dismissed Shafique and Fawad Alam (nine) in the first two sessions to raise hopes of a win.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But Australia were themselves to blame for not dislodging Azam as Travis Head and then Labuschagne dropped sharp catches off Swepson off successive deliveries with the batsman on 161.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Azam also survived a confident leg-before appeal against spinner Lyon when on 157, but it turned out to be umpire Aleem Dar's call on review.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Lyon was the best Australian bowler with 4-112 off a marathon 55 overs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Earlier, Cummins struck eight minutes before lunch to end an epic third-wicket stand with the score on 249.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Shafique, who hit 136 not out in the first Test, drove Cummins for a boundary to reach 96.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But in his next over the Australian fast bowler drew the right-hander into another drive which this time found the edge.<\/p>\r\n\r\n