Live: Pakistan 155/9, need 12 runs to win New Zealand Test

ABU DHABI: Middle request batsman Asad Shafiq chalked up 4,000 keeps running in the five-day arrange Monday as Pakistan edged near triumph in their first Test against New Zealand in Abu Dhabi.

Shafiq took a solitary off left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel to achieve 24, making him the eleventh Pakistani batsman to score at least 4,000 keeps running in Test cricket. Be that as it may, he got out just before the lunch subsequent to scoring critical 45 runs. Pakistan, set 176 to win the match, were 130-4 at lunch on the fourth day. Azhar Ali was at the wrinkle on 20.

Pakistan are trusting the combine proceed with their strong hurried to constrain a 1-0 win in the three-coordinate arrangement. Shafiq and Azhar saved Pakistan amid their 52-run incomplete remain for the fourth wicket after high show toward the beginning of the day, when Pakistan lost three brisk wickets in the space of only eight runs and the same number of balls.

Opener Imam-ul-Haq was caught leg-before to a full length ball by Patel in the fifth over of the day. Imam made 27 with four limits. His kindred opener Mohammad Hafeez then miscued a drive off leg-spinner Ish Sodhi's next finished and was gotten at spreads for ten. Haris Sohail pursued three balls later, got and knocked down some pins off a Sodhi full hurl for four.