Australia tighten grip with 489-run lead

Pakistan's fourth-innings best in Australia: 336

• 5.17 Australia's run rate in the second innings - their sixth best in a total of 200 or more runs. Four of the top five innings have come since 2014 and in the third innings of a Test.
• 287Australia's first-innings lead. However, they did not enforce the follow-on.
• 336 Highest fourth-innings total by Pakistan in Australia against the hosts, at MCG in 1990. They have been set 490 to win in about 217 overs.
• 67 Score from where Pakistan's ninth-wicket partnership added 54 runs - the fifth lowest score from which a team has had a 50-plus stand for the ninth wicket. The four lower scores are all against England.
• 7 Tests in which Steven Smith has scored a century and a fifty. Only Jacques Kallis (11), Ricky Ponting (10), Allan Border (9) and Kumar Sangakkara (9) 

• Smith and Khawaja, however, combined in an attractive stand. They built the lead with a mixture of the classical and the inventive, though neither went on to a century. Smith failed to clear mid-on to hand Yasir Shah a wicket, and Khawaja was well caught by Misbah-ul-Haq in a similar position off Rahat. Peter Handscomb maintained his sparkling start to Test cricket with another useful contribution, but Maddinson managed only one boundary before he hooked to fine leg. Australia eventually declared during the dinner break, on 5 for 202.

  The third day had begun with Sarfraz and Amir facing an enormous task to prolong Pakistan's first innings. With a combination of quick singles and the occasional boundary they were able to take their ninth-wicket stand beyond 50 while compelling Smith to call upon Nathan Lyon and Jackson Bird after trying Starc and Josh Hazlewood.

  It was Bird who eventually broke through, finding the thinnest of inside edges on Amir's bat - revealed by HotSpot and Realtime Snicko after the not-out decision was reviewed. Amir was visibly annoyed, perhaps because the ball also appeared to brush his elbow on its way through to Matthew Wade.

  Sarfraz went on to 59 in the company of Rahat, cutting Australia's lead slightly but more pointedly ensuring Smith did not risk enforcing the follow-on. His array of shots included a slog sweep off Bird, leading to one dropped catch by Maddinson at deep-backward square leg, before the innings concluded when Warner ran out Rahat by the width of a shadow over the crease.

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