We will definitely have a sleepless night Khaled Mahmud Photos from Multan

Bangladesh are tantalisingly close to breaking their duck in Test match cricket.

On what could be a tense morning on Saturday they will need to take four more wickets to win in Multan while Pakistan will need an unlikely, though not impossible, 113 runs.

Inzamam-ul-Haq is 53 not and he could yet take the home side to a 3-0 series whitewash.

It was a magnificent bowling effort by Bangladesh on Friday, who managed to eke out just 77 more runs after starting the day on 77-4.

Umar Gul (4-58) and Shabbir Ahmed (4-68) finished with a combined total of 15 wickets in the game as the tourists were eventually bowled out during the afternoon session.

And Rashid Latif's four catches in the innings gave him 18 for the three-match series, a Pakistan record.

But the performance of the two seam bowlers was not matched by the Pakistani batsmen, despite a confident start by Salman Butt and Mohammad Hafeez.

Dropped twice

Umar Gul finished with match figures of 8-144

Butt hit seven fours in racing to 37 off 34 balls, but he then flashed a ball from Manjurul Islam to gully, where substitute fielder Mashrafe bin Mortaza took the first of three catches.

Hafeez was dropped twice in the slips by Habibul Bashar and Hannan Sarkar, but it did not prove costly as he went for 18 in similar fashion to Butt's dismissal.

Bangladesh captain Mahmud accounted for Yasir Hameed (18) and Pakistan could ill afford the run out of Younis Khan for nought as Inzamam called for a quick single.

Farhan Adil managed only eight before falling to spinner Mohammad Rafique and Mahmud ended a stand of 33 between Inzamam and Rashid Latif, when the latter was lbw for five.

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez, Salman Butt, Yasir Hameed, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Farhan Adil, Younis Khan, Rashid Latif (captain), Saqlain Mushtaq, Umer Gul, Shabbir Ahmad, Yasir Ali