Smith, Kallis centuries help South Africa set up stiff target

Pakistan lost opener Salman Butt early, but then steadied through Kamran Akmal (49) and Younis Khan (48) to finish the fourth day at 108/1 — needing a further 349 runs on the last day.

No team has ever successfully chased so many runs in Test history with the West Indies holding the world record 418-run chase against Australia at Antigua in 2003.

Smith (133) got an overdue hundred and Kallis followed his two centuries in the first Test victory last week with an unbeaten 107 before South Africa declared their second innings at 305/4 at tea for an overall lead of 456 runs.

Pakistan were shot out for 206 in their first innings in reply to South Africa’s 357. Kallis and Smith shared a double century partnership (207 runs) and frustrated a depleted Pakistan bowling attack for five hours. It was a South African record for the third wicket against Pakistan. Kallis took his aggregate in the two-Test series to 421 runs after scoring 155, 100 not out and 59 in his previous three knocks.

Meanwhile, Smith faced 296 balls, hitting 17 boundaries, to post his first Test century in two years just before lunch.

Resuming at the overnight 154-2, Smith and Kallis scored at a slow pace and added only 57 more runs in the first session but the second session yielded 94 runs.

SCOREBOARD

South Africa (1st Innings): 357

Pakistan (1st Innings): 206

South Africa (2nd Innings)

(Overnight 154/2)

G Smith c sub (Hameed) b Kaneria 133; H Gibbs c Akmal b Gul 16; H Amla b Rehman 17; J Kallis not out 107; A Prince b Rehman 11; AB de Villiers not out 8

Extras: (12b, 1nb) 13

Total: (For 4 wickets, decl.) 305

Fall of wkts: 1/34, 2/66, 3/273, 4/290.

Bowling: Mohammad Asif 4-1-14-0, Umar Gul 16-3-48-1 (1nb), Danish Kaneria 44.3-11-99-1, Abdul Rehman 42-7-112-2, Younis Khan 4-0-20-0.

Pakistan (2nd Innings):

S Butt c sub (Pollock) b Ntini 6; K Akmal not out 49; Y Khan not out 48

Extras: (2b, 3lb) 5

Total: (For 1 wicket) 108

Fall of wicket: 1/15.

Bowling: Dale Steyn 7-2-25-0, Makhaya Ntini 6-2-24-1, Jacques Kallis 2-0-5-0, Andre Nel 6-1-37-0, Paul Harris 10-5-12-0.