England, 214 runs adrift on first innings, suffered a setback early in their second knock when captain Alastair Cook (seven) was squared up by a lifting Wahab Riaz delivery and debutant Iftikhar Ahmed, going to his right, held a good catch at first slip.
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The home team resumed 88 for four, still needing another 126 runs to make Pakistan bat again.
Hales averages 28 in 11 Tests and Vince just 19 in his seven matches.
But soon the bowling change worked for Pakistan with the introduction of Yasir Shah.
Hales compounded the sin of a faulty forward push by unaccountably squandering a precious review into the bargain. Yasir got rid of Hales first and then James Vince in a matter of just 10 balls. But Shah got the key wicket of Root when the batsman misread a straight delivery and went on the back foot.
England lost four early wickets in their second innings as leg-spinner Yasir Shah snared 3-15 and the Lord’s match-winner is likely to further bamboozle our nervous batters today.
England are now 2-1 up in the series and a win or draw at the Oval would seal a series triumph for Trevor Bayliss’ side.
“32 hundreds, his sixth double hundred and what a situation to get a double hundred”.
Finn, who took three for 110 in Pakistan’s innings, paid tribute to Shafiq and Younus by saying: “The two guys who got hundreds played fantastically, negated us and got us exhausted – fielding 140-odd overs – and they reaped their rewards”.
Sarfraz is the epitome of the modern attacking wicketkeeper-batsman, and was true to type with 40 runs in the half-century stand.
He added: “Younus is a world-class player”. Finn put down a straightforward caught and bowled chance off Azhar Ali and Shafiq was dropped by James Anderson in the slips off Woakes on 24.
But DRS proved umpire Bruce Oxenford was in error with his lbw decision, because the ball would have cleared the stumps.
The lights were on after lunch, under briefly heavier cloud cover, but England surprisingly began with spin from the pavilion end – Joe Root and then Moeen.
Moeen did have Wahab Riaz (1) stumped by Bairstow, although the ‘keeper was lucky when a fumbled take rebounded straight into the stumps.
When Pakistan’s last man, Sohail Khan, holed out to mid-on on the stroke of tea, Amir was the last man standing, unbeaten on a career-best 39 not out from 70 balls, his initial caution having given way to a florid range of strokes that ramped England’s frustrations up to boiling point.
The partnership was already worth 48 – and it took the return of Anderson to break it, with a full-length attempted cutter as Younus went lbw at last.
Younus, 38, batted for more than nine hours and plundered 31 fours and four sixes, one of which registered his double century with a pull over midwicket off Moeen Ali.
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But only six times in properly completed matches in the 139-year history of Test cricket have a team come back from more than 200 runs behind on the first innings to win.
