Pakistan manages to get to 181 without losing a wicket while chasing a huge England total.

If Pakistan wants to avoid the follow-on, they’ll need to score 277 more runs.
Again, bowlers found the pitch to be unresponsive.
Ollie Pope’s assured caught-behind appeal off a rising delivery narrowly missed Shafique.
On Friday, Pakistan’s openers scored runs on a placid pitch to help the home team reach 181 without loss in response to England’s massive 657 in the first Test in Rawalpindi.

There were 17 overs left when the umpires called stumps on day two with Imam-ul-Haq (90) and Abdullah Shafique (89) both on their way to a century.

Still, the home team needs 277 runs to escape the follow-on.

England’s bowlers, led by James Anderson, struggled along with the host team as the ground did not offer much support.

Off a rising delivery, Ollie Pope had full faith in a caught-behind appeal, and Shafique barely made it out alive. television official Marais Erasmus overruled umpire Joel Wilson’s weak signal for out.

Haq pushed spinner Jack Leach for two runs in his 17th Test, bringing his career total to 1,000 runs. In March, Haq struck centuries in both innings of a Test against Australia on the same pitch.

Shafique, who scored a hundred in the March test against Australia as well, reached his fifth fifty in just his eighth Test by smashing two boundaries.

Haq quickly joined them, becoming the fifth player on the team to reach 50 by taking a single off Joe Root.

After being reduced to 506-4 overnight, England batted for another 125 minutes and scored 151 runs, with Harry Brook being one of four batsmen to reach a century.

Naseem Shah, the fast bowler, finished with a total of 3-140 after dismissing the team’s captain, Ben Stokes (41), the rookie, Liam Livingstone (9), and Brook.

Zahid Mahmood, a leg-spinner, took four wickets but gave up 235 runs in his Test debut, the most by any bowler.

In 2010, Sri Lankan off-spinner Suraj Randiv gave up 222 runs when his team played India in Colombo.

This score surpasses England’s 589-9 in Manchester in 2016, which was their previous highest against Pakistan in Tests.

Overturning Australia’s 112-year-old record of 494-6 against South Africa in Sydney, England scored 500 runs on the first day of a Test match on Thursday.

In addition to Ben Duckett (107), Zak Crawley (122), and Ollie Pope (108), there were three other batsmen who scored hundreds.

After declining to tour in the intervening 17 years due to security concerns, England is playing a three-match Test series in Pakistan for the first time.