Quotes: Kirsten eyes 100 Tests

Pakistan were left with a target of 302 and after six overs of their innings they had reached 8-0.

South Africa reached 371-8 before Graeme Smith called his players in, with Shaun Pollock 30 not out.

Kirsten hit 118 in five-and-a-quarter hours. It was his 19th Test century and he hit 11 fours and one six.

South Africa began the day on 140-3 and accumulated steadily during the course of Monday's play.

Kirsten added 85 for the fourth wicket with Neil McKenzie and 90 for the fifth with Jacques Kallis.

The rate of scoring was slow in the morning.

Spinner Danish Kaneria took the only wicket of the first session when McKenzie top-edged a sweep to slip Taufeeq Umar. He had laboured to 35 off 120 balls.

Captain Inzamam pounces in the infield for Pakistan

South Africa began to dominate after lunch with Kirsten, who had been struck in the face by a Shoaib Akhtar bouncer in the first Test, leading charge.

With no Shoaib nor Mohammad Sami in Faisalabad, Kirsten and South Africa in general were finally making the Pakistani bowlers toil.

In the over after he went to his century, Kirsten went down the pitch to hit Mushtaq high over midwicket for his first six.

Finally, he played one shot too many.

Umar held an edged cut in the slips before the bowler, Abdul Razzaq, beat Mark Boucher for pace with the very next delivery to bowl the wicket-keeper.

Shaun Pollock survived the hat-trick ball and went on to add 22 with Kallis before the latter was trapped lbw by Razzaq to fall for 43.

Pollock and Makhaya Ntini had three overs each to try for an early Pakistani wicket before stumps but were unable to strike.

Pakistan: Taufiq Umar, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Inzamam-ul-Haq (captain), Asim Kamal, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razzaq, Moin Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Shabbir Ahmed, Danish Kaneria.