Pakistani cricketer Younis Khan raises his bat after he scored 50 runs [AFP]

Set a target of 424 to win in four sessions, Pakistan moved to 146-3 by stumps on the fourth day, thanks to Khan's aggressive 99-ball knock which included 14 boundaries.
 
The home team requires 278 more runs in a minimum 90 overs for victory at National Stadium, a venue where it has lost just one out of 39 test matches.
 
No team in test history has successfully chased such a large fourth-inning target.

The West Indies currently hold the record of the highest ever chase when it defeated Australia at Antigua in 2003 by scoring 418 runs.

"He (Khan) came out and played positively, I don't think we bowled as well as we could have bowled but to be fair to him he put the pressure on the bowlers," South Africa's Jacques Kallis said.

"In a way it's quite nice for us because if they are going for a win it would give us more opportunities tomorrow."

Declaration

South Africa declared its second innings at 264-7 at tea, shortly after Jacques Kallis completed his second century of the match, before making early inroads into Pakistan.

Paceman Dale Steyn (2-44) removed both openers cheaply before Faisal Iqbal (44) and Khan joined in a 114-run partnership off 145 balls.

Left-arm spinner Paul Harris got the much needed breakthrough 21 balls before stumps when Faisal gloved an easy catch and departed after hitting eight boundaries.

However Khan continued his rapid pace to complete his run-a-ball half century with eight boundaries.

He then scored successive boundaries off reverse sweeps before hoisting captain Graeme Smith for a big six in the same over.

A pair on centuries

Earlier, Kallis became the first South African since Gary Kirsten in 1996 to score centuries in both innings of a test.

The only other South Africans to do so were Alan Melville and Bruce Mitchell, both against England in 1947.

"It's something I would look back at the end of my career and then say I am very proud of," said Kallis.

"To me, the first one was better one when I struck the ball well, the second one was a more grinding innings as we had to make sure we had enough runs on the board."

South Africa resumed at the overnight score of 76-3, and Kallis and Ashwell Prince (45) took the total to 131 before Pakistan got two breakthroughs in the space of seven deliveries just before lunch.

The partnership added 88 runs in two hours and 10 minutes before Prince dragged on Danish Kaneria's delivery that pitched on the rough, bounced and hit the top of off stump.

A.B. De Villiers was then baffled by Rehman's sharp turning delivery which clipped the off-stump as the right-hander tried to play an on drive and missed the line of the ball.

Kallis hit just four boundaries in his 201-ball innings that lasted nearly five hours.

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