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[caption id="attachment_18258" align="alignnone" width="580"] Pakistan bank on Yasir Shah's spin to win first test. Twitter[/caption] Internet Desk: Standing on a lead of 282runs at the end of the third day Pakistan is eyeing on their bowlers to fight back against England. After the success of Yasir Shah in the first innings the bowling side will be led by him as Pakistan is going to set a target of nearly 300 for the final innings of the test. After a successful spell of having six wickets for 72 runs Yasir tried to fetch the Pakistan team for a good lead in their second innings at the Lord’s. He scored 30 at the end of the second innings. Coming at the fall of sixth wicket Yasir hit five boundaries during his innings. The Pakistan innings was stuck in-front of medium pacer CR Woakes. After a successful first innings Woakes fought back again at his second innings. During the first bowling innings of Woakes he picked up six wickets giving 70runs. In the second innings also he became the highest wicket taker of England. This is the first time in his life that he took five wickets in both the innings. Now the England side has two days in hand to chase the target of 283 to win. In the previous innings Yasir helped Pakistan by taking six wickets. However, other bowlers could not succeed. Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur claimed that a lead of 300 will be a good score. However, the team failed to do that in their second innings. Among the batsmen of the team only Asad Safiq scored 49 which is the highest score of the Pakistan batsmen in the second innings. Sarfraz Ahmed scored near to him, 45. Failure of the other batsmen occurred due to the success of Woakes mainly. SCJ Broad also picked up three wickets. Coming on the second innings England team scored five with fall of no wickets till now.