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Last Updated: Wednesday, 25 January 2006, 12:11 GMT
India bat out draw with Pakistan
Second Test, Faisalabad: Pakistan 588 & 490 drew with India 603 & 21-0

Younis Khan celebrates
Younis secured his fourth hundred in his last four games against India
India and Pakistan still have all to play for after the second Test ended in a high-scoring draw in Faisalabad.

The sides set a new mark for sixes in a match, with 27, in compiling the seventh-highest runs aggregate in a Test match ever, with 1,702.

Younis Khan (194) and Mohammad Yousuf (126) put on 242 for the third wicket as Pakistan made a second innings 480.

Younis and Shahid Afridi opened the bowling as India made 21-0 before a stalemate was agreed.

The third and final Test begins in Karachi on Sunday.

Kamran Akmal (78) was the only batsman to fall in the first two sessions on the final day, and the pairing of Younis Yousuf ensured Pakistan's total was well out of sight.

HIGHEST AGGREGATE IN TESTS
1,981 SA v Eng, Durban 1938/39
1,815 WI v Eng, Kingston 1929/30
1,764 Aus v WI , Adelaide 1968/69
1,753 Aus v Eng, Adelaide 1920/21
1,747 Aus v Ind, Sydney 2003/04
1,723 Eng v Aus, Leeds 1948
1,702 Pkn v Ind, Faisalabad 2005/06

Before lunch Younis, who deputised for injured captain Inzamam-ul-Haq in the field, secured his fourth hundred in his last four games against India.

Only Australia's Don Bradman has achieved more in succession against a single opponent, with six against England between 1936 and '38.

India wasted two chances to dismiss Yousuf, Kumble dropping him at gully off Rudra Pratap Singh and wicket-keeper Mahendra Dhoni just failing to run him out.

Of the 27 sixes, Pakistan hit 11 in their first innings, India replied with nine and Yousuf hit four of the seven in Pakistan's second trip to the middle.

The previous record saw the boundary cleared 23 times by England and New Zealand in Christchurch in 2002.

Abdul Razzaq added another couple after Yousuf was run out attempting a third run to third man.

In increasingly farcical circumstances, Dhoni took the second new ball to bowl for the first time in international cricket, while skipper Rahul Dravid took the gloves.

Left-armer Zaheer Khan took four wickets late on, including Afridi and Mohammad Asif with successive deliveries in different overs.

Big-hitting batsman Afridi arrived to a standing ovation late in the day but the stands emptied as he departed after wafting loosely outside off stump.

Debutant Pratap Singh denied Younis's bid for a double century by trapping him lbw in line with leg stump.

And Pakistan's innings ended with eight wickets down as Inzamam was suffering back trouble and Shoaib Malik went home after the death of his father.


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