WEST INDIES STRUGGLING AFTER DAY 3 AGAINST PAKISTAN

First Test, Lahore, day three (stumps): West Indies 206 & 74-3 v Pakistan 485

Pakistan maintained their dominant position over West Indies after day three in Lahore, with the tourists 74-3 in their second innings, 205 behind.

After Mohammad Yousuf's 192 had taken Pakistan to 485, the Windies lost both openers in just five overs of cricket.

When Ramnaresh Sarwan was lbw to Umar Gul shortly before stumps, it completed another excellent day for Pakistan.

Earlier, Daren Ganga had been run out by Imran Farhat's direct hit before Chris Gayle nicked a Gul outswinger.

West Indies face a real struggle now simply to avoid an innings defeat and Pakistan will hope for a victory before play enters the fifth day.

Yousuf surged past 1,300 runs for the calendar year before being stumped, batting for eight and a half hours.

Paceman Jerome Taylor was the pick of the Windies bowlers, with 4-115, spinner Dave Mohammed taking three wickets.

Yousuf, starting Monday's play on 107, made the visitors pay for dropping him on 114.

He had been put down on 43 and 101 on the second day and those errors were compounded when Brian Lara spilled a low catch at second slip on the third morning.

Yousuf went on to add 148 for the seventh wicket with Kamran Akmal, who ended a poor run of form with a hard-hitting 78.

West Indies were chasing leather deep into the second session, when Gul and Danish Kaneria put on 39 for the last wicket.

Only five overs were bowled before tea, but it was enough time for both the openers to be dismissed.

Sarwan and Brian Lara were beginning to make things a bit more respectable when Gul cut a delivery back a long way to trap Sarwan on the back foot and in front of his stumps.