(ESPNCricinfo) – A 16-wicket day brought the Dubai day-night Test to life as Pakistan’s 400th Test swung one way and then the other. After Yasir Shah’s three wickets – which brought him a five-wicket haul and his 100th Test scalp – helped Pakistan secure a 222-run first-innings lead, Devendra Bishoo hit back with a career-best 8 for 49 to skittle Pakistan for 123 and leave West Indies with an outside chance of victory.

West Indies lost Kraigg Brathwaite early in their chase of 346, before Leon Johnson and Darren Bravo shared a 60-run stand to lift the team. But Johnson’s late dismissal and Marlon Samuels’ early struggles against the legspin of Yasir served as a reminder that West Indies still have an uphill task on the final day.
Having declined to impose the follow-on, Pakistan chased quick runs and lost two early wickets before tea. Sami Aslam and Babar Azam added 57 off 70 balls after the interval to steady the innings and swiftly build the lead. But Bishoo then benefitted from some ambitious shots, and some good, spinning deliveries to rip through Pakistan, taking seven of the eight wickets that fell either side of the dinner break.
With the score at 77 for 2 and the lead at 299, Azam played a loose cross-batted shot onto his stumps off Bishoo. Aslam played a late cut into the hands of Jermaine Blackwood at first slip and Misbah-ul-Haq was bowled after missing a slog sweep. The left-handed Mohammad Nawaz shouldered arms to his third ball, only to see a fizzing leg break cannon into his off stump. When Wahab Riaz miscued a slog sweep to Brathwaite at deep midwicket, Bishoo had his sixth of the innings. Jason Holder then had Yasir caught and bowled off the last ball before dinner.
Bishoo wrapped up the innings within five balls of the resumption, getting Sarfraz Ahmed stumped, before hitting Mohammad Amir’s middle stump, his fourth bowled dismissal of the innings. That capped a collapse of eight wickets for 46 runs. Bishoo’s plunder and Pakistan’s slump still left West Indies with a daunting target, but they could hardly have dreamed of a better outcome at the start of the day.
Day four had begun much as day three had done – with an early wicket for Yasir. A very full leg break pitched just in line with the stumps and spun in before hitting the batsman’s pads. Dowrich had played across the line and missed.
Bishoo and Holder then survived a stern short-ball examination from Amir and Wahab, putting on a 21-run stand that raised West Indies’ hopes of extending their resistance. That was not to be – Yasir got through Holder’s defences with a tossed-up googly and then bowled Miguel Cummins with a big-spinning leg break that evaded the batsman’s wild swipe. That was Yasir’s 100th Test wicket, in his 17th match, making him the joint-second fastest bowler to the mark. Nawaz finished the job in the next over. It had taken Pakistan just 14.5 overs to take the remaining four wickets, bowling West Indies out for 357.
While a wicket-filled day brought West Indies back into the match, they will require the balance to shift back in favour of the batsmen if they are to score the 251 more runs needed for victory on a fifth-day Dubai pitch.
Scorecard

Pakistan 2nd innings

S. Aslam c Blackwood b Bishoo 44
Az. Ali lbw b Gabriel 2
A. Shafiq lbw b Bishoo 5
B. Azam b Bishoo 21
Misbah-ul-Haq b Bishoo 15
S. Ahmed st Dowrich b Bishoo 15
M. Nawaz b Bishoo 0
W. Riaz c K. Brathwaite b Bishoo 5
Y. Shah c&b Holder 2
So. Khan not out 1
M. Amir b Bishoo 1
Extras (b-10 nb-2) 12
Total (all out, 31.5 overs) 123
Bowling

S. Gabriel 7 – 1 – 23 – 1(nb-1)
M. Cummins 7 – 0 – 29 – 0(nb-1)
D. Bishoo 13.5 – 1 – 49 – 8
J. Holder 4 – 0 – 12 – 1
West Indies 2nd innings (Target: 346 runs)

K. Brathwaite b Amir 6
L. Johnson lbw b Amir 47
Da. Bravo not out 26
M. Samuels not out 4
Extras (lb-5 nb-2 w-5) 12
Total (for 2 wickets, 31 overs) 95

To bat: J. Blackwood, R. Chase, S. Dowrich, J. Holder, D. Bishoo, M. Cummins, S. Gabriel
Bowling

M. Amir 8 – 1 – 26 – 2(w-1)
So. Khan 2 – 1 – 4 – 0
Y. Shah 13 – 2 – 40 – 0
M. Nawaz 4 – 1 – 7 – 0
W. Riaz 4 – 0 – 13 – 0(nb-2)