England suffered only briefly at the hands of Shahid Afridi this morning but were unable to prevent Inzamam-ul-Haq rolling on relentlessly to his 23rd Test match hundred as Pakistan stayed in control in Faisalabad.

Home captain Inzamam (109) ensured his team took at least a par advantage from batting first on the most placid of pitches, putting a commanding 446 for eight on the board by lunch on day two of this second Test.

Afridi's brutal strokeplay went on for another 25 minutes against the second new ball, a hectic succession of thunderous fours and sixes whipping the home crowd into a frenzy as they had last night.

After a relatively circumspect start, he slipped into his groove again and was making a mockery of the England bowlers' reputations by the time Matthew Hoggard finally got his man with the fourth ball of an over which cost 21 runs - including two huge blows for six over long-on.

Those, of course, were down to Afridi who was to fall anti-climactically to an attempted steer down to third man which was picked up very low at a wide slip by Marcus Trescothick.

Afridi had hit six fours and six sixes in his run-a-ball fifth-wicket stand of 145 with Inzamam, who duly moved to a 187-ball hundred which contained 12 self-assured boundaries and was the cornerstone presence behind Pakistan's prosperous position.

When Inzamam did finally go it was in the most unusual circumstances.

His firm drive back at Stephen Harmison saw the bowler throw down the stumps. Inzamam, standing safely in his crease, moved aside to avoid injury but was judged to have raised his feet in the air in doing so and after a consultation with third umpire Nadeem Ghouri was controversially given run out.