Cricket: Pakistan threw the third Test wide open at Headingley as England were dismissed for 345. Led by vice-captain Younis Khan for the majority of the day, Pakistan struck back impressively after England captain Andrew Strauss struck a 10th Test hundred.
Trailing 1-0 in the four-match npower series, the Pakistanis had to wait until the 39th over before an initial success as Strauss and Marcus Trescothick put on 158. However, that began a slump of five wickets for 90 runs to give the tourists a sniff of victory.
Chris Read recorded a maiden Test half-century on his recall to boost England, while veteran Shahid Nazir, who finished with three wickets in his first appearance for seven years, swung things back Pakistan's way. Mohammad Sami finished things off when Read chopped into his stumps for a high-class 55 and set a 323-run victory target.
Earlier Trescothick rode his luck to hit his first half-century of the campaign, slicing low to second slip off Umar Gul for 58. Somerset left-hander Trescothick was dropped twice by wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal before England wiped out their first-innings deficit and also edged three boundaries through the slip cordon in the first hour of the fourth day.
The 30-year-old gloved a chance down the leg-side off Mohammad Sami in the third over of the morning, only for Akmal to fluff a one-handed grab to his right. Then, with Trescothick on seven and England still one run in arrears on 22 without loss, Umar Gul found the outside edge but Akmal missed a regulation chance.
Trescothick's previous highest effort in the four-match campaign was 28 in the first innings here but he moved into the 30s with a classy on-driven four off Gul. Strauss, meanwhile, ticked along nicely at the other end as 71 runs came up in just 11 overs despite the cloud cover overhead.
Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq spent that time off the field complaining of chest pain, having fallen on his stumps while batting yesterday, and could manage only an hour back in the fray before heading off to hospital for an X-ray, which came out clear.
Trescothick brought up England's 100 in style with a straight six off leg-spinner Danish Kaneria, registering a first three-figure share with Strauss in Tests since the Ashes encounter at Trent Bridge last summer. Both men took lunch on 54 but Strauss motored away from his partner on the resumption with three consecutive fours through the covers off Kaneria.
In all Strauss batted for over four hours and struck 16 crisp boundaries before perishing on the stroke of tea to Mohammad Sami, edging behind in trying to withdraw his bat.
A second catch for Akmal in the evening session, off one which nipped back from Sami, accounted for first-innings centurion Ian Bell and increased Pakistani chances of victory.
Following Gul's removal of Trescothick, Pakistan turned to Kaneria and his persistence was rewarded with the wicket of former Essex team-mate Alastair Cook, who prodded a catch to short leg via bat and pad.
He then culminated Kevin Pietersen's quick dash to 16 with a googly which found its way through an attempted turn to the leg-side.
Strauss at least broke Pakistan's spell of success with an upper cut in the next over from Sami to bring up his hundred and appeared to have weathered the storm before perking Pakistan on the eve of the interval.
Bell's fine form - he has three hundreds in the series to date - ceased while Collingwood also succumbed, playing on to Nazir, to expose the tail.
Sajid Mahmood and Matthew Hoggard both edged Nazir behind the wicket, one to the old ball the other to the new, and Steve Harmison drove Gul straight to mid-off before Read's departure set up the possibility of all three results on the final day.
Salman Butt negotiated the solitary over available to England - a maiden sent down by Matthew Hoggard - to leave Pakistan, requiring the second highest total to win a Test on this ground, a minimum of 90 overs in which to reach their target on the final day.