Australia v Pakistan second Test LIVE: Khawaja’s epic knock ends on 160 as Pakistan close in on Aussie tail

Faheem squares up Khawaja with a ball that angles in and seams away, and finds the Aussie opener’s outside edge.

But Khawaja’s soft hands keep the ball down and it races away to the boundary between slip and gully.

The tourists are now 3-293 in the 100th over. Khawaja moves to 138 and Lyon is on 30.

Nathan Lyon is being shown some serious respect by Pakistan but their tactics this morning have been highly questionable.

To our left, there are three men back on the leg side with another three in catching positions, albeit not too close to the bat. No one is in front of the wicket on the off side.

Shaheen Afridi has bowled almost every ball at Lyon’s head, or close to it, and every time he’s looked comfortable. Roughing up a tail-ender with short stuff is fine but you have to spear one in every so often at the stumps.

Lyon’s hook shot is easily his best stroke, as we saw recently against England in Hobart when he hit six after six over deep square leg and fine leg. He’s moved past my tip of 25 and is looking in fine touch.

The fact he’s rolling his wrists on these hook shots and not trying to hit them into the stands shows he’s not just a lower-order slogger. Great batting. Is there anything more beautiful to watch than nightwatchman runs?

Khawaja attempts to reverse-sweep Nauman, but misses the ball and after cannoning into his back thigh, it shoots to Babar who takes a catch at slip.

Problem is, it didn’t hit the bat, yet Pakistan still opt to send it upstairs despite it being given not out.

Further highlighting how ill-conceived their decision to use DRS was, the ball-tracking shows impact was outside leg stump. One of the worst reviews you’ll ever see.

Pakistan burn a review needlessly and only have one review remaining while Australia still have all three intact.

It’s clear what the strategy is for Pakistan to get Lyon out, but it’s not working. He continues playing his leg-side shots and hooks Shaheen for his fourth boundary and moves to 27.

Lyon sweeps Nauman’s third ball of the day beautifully for another four and the nightwatchman moves to 22.

The Aussies are going at almost a run a minute so far on the second day and now find themselves 3-279 in the 97th over.

Off-spinner Nauman Ali (0-56 from 25) enters the attack for the first time today.

The cracks have clearly got bigger overnight and already this pitch is playing a few more tricks on day two with a relatively new ball in Pakistan’s hands.

Mitch Swepson, Australia’s debutant leg-spinner, will be excited by what he’s seeing. Batting in the second innings should be extremely difficult for both teams. He has had an enormous outpouring of support in the past 24 hours and will be itching to get his first ball out of the way. He spoke before play about what it meant to him.

Lyon hooks a short Shaheen ball to fine leg for his second four of the day and follows that up immediately by hooking Shaheen aerially through mid-wicket, but Faheem Ashraf prevents that from reaching the rope.

Lyon moves to 15 not out and the Aussies are now 3-271 in the 96th over.

Some sage advice from one very famous nightwatchman to his modern-day contemporary

Khawaja takes a couple of steps down the crease and effortlessly whips Shaheen through mid-wicket for his first boundary of the day and the 14th of his innings. He moves to 131 and the tourists are 3-262.