2nd Test: Pakistan v South Africa at Lahore, Oct 8-12, 2007

South Africa 357 & 154/2 (55.0 ov)

Pakistan 206

South Africa lead by 305 runs with 8 wickets remaining

Stumps – Day 3 South Africa RR 2.80

Min overs remaining 7.0

Stumps – Day 3
Hours of play: 10.00 start, Lunch 12.00-12.40, Tea 14.40-15.00, Close 17.00
Current time: 17:13 local, 12:13 GMT

Current partnership 88 runs, 30.1 overs, RR: 2.91

Last bat HM Amla b Abdur Rehman 17 (0m 44b 2×4 0x6) SR: 38.63
Fow: 66/2 (24.5 ov); Partnership: 32 runs, 14.0 overs, RR: 2.28

End of over 55 (3 runs) – South Africa 154/2

GC Smith 75* (164b 11×4) Danish Kaneria 21-4-54-0
JH Kallis 37* (87b 3×4)

and close to 7 minutes past, umpires have a look, Smith and Kallis discuss it, and eventually decide to take the light

During that period of conversation, Gul was marking out his run, and that may have got the South Africans to take the light

Match State: Stumps – Day 3
South Africa with a lead of 305 and still 8 wickets in hand now in control of this match. One doubts, with one Test up in the series, that they will declare too early and will look at 400 plus before they declare. It will be Pakistan that will have to
strike back and try and bowl them out in the first session tomorrow, else the Test and the Series will be lost.