Lunch New Zealand 245 for 2 (Williamson 19*, Nicholls 10*, Nauman 1-73) trail Pakistan 438 (Babar 161, Salman 103, Southee 3-69) by 193 runs
All that meant New Zealand, adding 80 runs for the loss of two wickets in the morning session, went into lunch at 245 for 2, still 193 runs behind Pakistan’s 438.
Conway’s dismissal, eight short of a fourth Test ton, brought Kane Williamson at No. 3, who batted through the rest of the session to stay unbeaten on 19.
Eventually, it was the reverse sweep that ended Latham’s innings, roughly 15 minutes before lunch. Abrar, who had been mixing his legbreaks with the wrong’un through the morning, pitched it up in the 70th over, and the ball hit Latham’s gloves before looping behind him for the substitute fielder Kamran Ghulam at slip to take the catch. Henry Nicholls, at No. 4, was the next batter in, and stayed unbeaten on 10 in Williamson’s company.
That there was a substitute fielder on the field was because a few members of the Pakistan contingent were suffering from a “viral flu” in the morning. Pakistan’s first-innings centurions Babar Azam and Agha Salman did not take the field in the morning, while Shan Masood was briefly away too. That meant Pakistan fielded three substitute fielders at the start of the day’s play, including vice-captain Mohammad Rizwan who was not selected for the first Test.