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The experience of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and youth of Ryan Hinds saved West Indies from the follow-on against Pakistan in Sharjah.

The dismissal of captain Carl Hooper just before tea on the third day had looked like plunging the Caribbean side into trouble.

But the sixth wicket pair added an unbeaten 94 in the evening session to pass the 294 required to make Pakistan bat again, and aim to make the game safe.

With the wicket offering little assistance to the bowlers, only a dramatic collapse by either side over the last two days will produce a result.

Chanderpaul, returning from the back injury that kept him out of the recent tour of Sri Lanka, was 45 not out at stumps.

And 21-year old Test debutant Hinds was unbeaten on 55 from 106 deliveries.

Saqlain brace

Hooper's was the first wicket to fall to pace bowling, lbw to Abdur Razzaq for 56, after spinners Saqlain Mushtaq and Danish Kaneria had shared the opening spoils.

Wavell Hinds provided wrist-spinner Kaneria with his second wicket, stumped for 59 stepping down the pitch having looked at home against both spinners.

Before lunch, Saqlain had taken two wickets in six balls and Kaneria chipped in with the scalp of Sherwin Campbell.

Opener Daren Ganga survived 94 deliveries to make 20 runs, without a single boundary, before being trapped leg before in front of the stumps by an off-break that beat the bat.

Meanwhile partner, left-hander Chris Gayle, showed some of the form that deserted him in Sri Lanka late last year, making 68 from 117 balls, with 13 boundaries.

But he was bowled by a Saqlain top-spinner for the second wicket in two overs from the Surrey player.

And Sherwin Campbell, playing his first Test for over a year and his first ever in the middle order, never looked at home against the spin tandem.

He was adjudged lbw offering no shot to Kaneria for six, although the delivery stuck him high on the pad.

Pakistan: Waqar Younis (capt), Taufiq Umer, Naved Latif, Younis Khan, Inzamam-ul Haq, Yousuf Youhana, Abdur Razzaq, Rashid Latif, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain Mushtaq, Danish Kaneria.

West Indies:Carl Hooper (capt), Daren Ganga, Sherwin Campbell, Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Wavell Hinds, Ryan Hinds, Ridley Jacobs, Mervyn Dillon, Cameron Cuffy, Pedro Collins.

Umpires: George Sharp (England) and Mohammad Riazuddin (Pakistan)

Match referee: Mike Denness (England).