The Pakistan pair looked to be safely steering the home team to a draw, but spinner Nathan Lyon turned the match on its head by dismissing Azam and then Faheem Ashraf with successive deliveries.
Set a daunting 506-run target, Pakistan finished on 443-7 after being bundled out for 148 in their first innings. Australia made 556-9 declared in their first innings and, after deciding not to enforce the follow-on, declared their second at 97-2.
Azam's marathon knock of ten hours and seven minutes is the second-longest in the fourth innings of a Test, behind Michael Atherton's vigil of 185 not out that lasted 643 minutes and helped England secure a draw against South Africa in the 1995 Johannesburg Test."The plan was always to try and survive, and even towards the end there were no serious discussions about chasing it."
Azam added an invaluable 228 runs for the third wicket with Abdullah Shafique and another 115 for the fifth with Rizwan, keeping Australia's spin-cum-pace attack at bay.
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