MULTAN: Debutant Kamran Ghulam fell in the dying minutes of the opening day after his maiden century kept Pakistan in command during the second test against England here on Tuesday.

Mohammad Rizwan (37*) and Salman Ali Agha (5*) will resume the second day for Pakistan with the scoreboard reading 259-5. The hosts lost Saud Shakeel (4) early in the final session with Jamie Smith taking a sharp catch behind the stumps. Mohammad Rizwan joined Kamran Ghulam and took his time to settle in. Meanwhile, Kamran continued his strokeplay and scored his maiden Test century during the 65-run stand for the fifth wicket.

Kamran Ghulam scored 118 runs from 224 runs with the help of eleven boundaries before getting cleaned up by Shoaib Bashir. Mohammad Rizwan was joined by Salman Ali Agha and they took the team to 259/5 at stumps. Both batters completed their individual half-centuries during the 149-run partnership before Potts provided the breakthrough for the visitors at the stroke of tea. Saim Ayub was caught by England captain Ben Stokes at short mid-off after scoring 77 runs from 160 balls, which featured seven boundaries.