Peshawar, Oct 17: Australian captain Mark Taylor selflessly denied himself the chance of a world record cricket Test score today by putting the interests of his team first.But his hopes of bowling out Pakistan twice in three days to win the second Test were dashed by Ijaz Ahmed and Saeed Anwar who hit centuries in a 211-run second-wicket stand.At the close of the third day Pakistan were 329 for two in reply to Australia's first innings 599 for four. Taylor had equalled Sir Donald Bradman's highest Test score of 334 by an Australian yesterday but opted to declare rather than push on towards Brian Lara's record score of 375.``There are two reasons for that,'' he said. ``I want to win series in the sub continent and this is the only way I can be bracketed with Bradman.''Pakistan began their reply in belligerent fashion, Anwar and Aamir Sohail putting on 45 by the ninth over before Sohail mishooked Glenn McGrath to long leg and was caught by Damien Fleming for 31. Anwar and Ijaz continued to scorebriskly on a placid wicket and Anwar completed his seventh Test century and second in succession in this series immediately after tea.He eventually fell to off-spinner Colin Miller, caught behind by Ian Healy for 126. He hit 18 fours and three sixes and faced 226 balls.Ijaz enjoyed a `life' on 99 when he was put down at backward point by Ricky Ponting before completing his fourth Test century against Australia and ninth in all.It came off 210 balls and included 16 fours. By the close he had moved on to 125 and had hit 19 fours. Inzamam-ul-Haq was unbeaten on 31.SCOREBOARDAUSTRALIA (1st innings): MA Taylor not out 334, MJ Slater c Azhar Mahmood b Shoaib Akhtar 2, JL Langer c Moin Khan b Azhar Mahmood 116, ME Waugh c Salim Malik b Aamir Sohail 42, SR Waugh c Moin Khan b Shoaib Akhtar 1, RT Ponting not out 76. Extras (lb 9, w 3, nb 16): 28. Total: (for 4 wickets, decl): 599Fall of wickets: 1-16, 2-295, 3-418, 4-431,Bowling: Akhtar 31-6-107-2, Zahid 16-0-74-0, Ahmed 46-3-153-0, Mahmood23-2-82-1, Sohail 42-8-111-1, Malik 16-0-63-0.PAKISTAN (1st Innings): Saeed Anwar c Healy b Miller 126, Aamir Sohail c Fleming b McGrath 31, Ijaz Ahmed batting 125, Inzamam-ul-Haq batting 31. Extras (b 4, lb 7, w 1, nb 4): 16. Total (for 2 wickets in 90 overs): 329.Fall of wickets: 1-45, 2-256Bowling: McGrath 20-4-86-1, Fleming 21-4-67-0, MacGill 20-2-89-0, Miller 23-6-56-1, M Waugh 6-0-20-0.
