Rizwan' gritty knock hold up England
Mohammad Rizwan scored a gritty, unbeaten half-century to guide Pakistan past 200 against an increasingly frustrated England before the teams were forced off because of bad light before tea on the second day of the second Test on Friday.
Pakistan was 215-8 at the enforced end of the session, with Rizwan on 53 and Mohammad Abbas on 2.
England looked like wrapping up the Pakistan innings after star batsman Babar Azam (47) edged behind a brilliant ball from Stuart Broad that seamed and squared up Babar.
That made the score 158-6 and two more wickets fell for 18 runs, with Yasir Shah (5) flashing at a delivery from Jimmy Anderson and edging to give wicketkeeper Jos Buttler another catch before Shaheen Afridi (0) was run out by Dom Sibley at the nonstriker's end after a mix-up.
England's seam bowling unraveled in the final halfhour, with the field set by captain Joe Root perhaps too negative under threatening skies and with two lower-order batsmen in the middle.
On occasions, there were five or six out near the boundary as Root spread the field.
Anderson has the best bowling figures, with 3-48.
The start was delayed by 90 minutes because of morning rain in Southampton, leaving England an hour to make further inroads in the first session after reducing Pakistan to 126-5 by stumps on Day 1.
Babar Azam (45 not out) and Mohammad Rizwan (12 not out) dealt with a swinging ball as Pakistan reached lunch on 155-5, though Chris Woakes - in particular - was unlucky not to find an outside edge from a couple of superb deliveries to Rizwan.
Pakistan is plodding along at a run rate of 2.54, with Babar looking key to its hopes of a decent first-innings total as he approaches his 15th half-century in Tests.
The tourists trail 1-0 in the three-match series after losing the first match by three wickets in Manchester.
Another victory for England will clinch a first test series against Pakistan in 10 years, and a second series of this pandemic-affected summer having already beaten the West Indies.