Pakistan 133 and 449 (Masood 95, Razaullah 81, Babar 76, Awais 59) lead England 453 by 129 runs
Razaullah and Mohammad Abbas continued to fight the good fight led by Shan Masood as Pakistan forced England to chase 130 for victory in the third and final Test at Edgbaston.
Razaullah, the 21-year-old debutant who had bowled with eye-catching pace and passion for four wickets in England's first innings, took the same fire to his batting at No. 9 with a 121-run stand for the ninth wicket with Abbas.
He smashed three sixes off Gus Atkinson in the space of four balls and another off Josh Tongue amid nine in all - equalling Tim Southee's record for a Test debutant - as he plundered 81 off 63 balls to hand Pakistan a 129-run lead.
It was a scenario that had looked unlikely on a third day when England had more than once looked on track for another innings victory or a token run chase at best. But the hosts had no riposte to Razaullah and Abbas, who peppered the stands and the boundary rope, Abbas reaching a career-best 42.
With the tourists eight wickets down and leading by 30 runs, England took the second new ball but couldn't make inroads against the experience of Abbas and power of Razaullah, who brought up Pakistan's fastest fifty by a debutant in just 43 balls with the first of back-to-back sixes off Jofra Archer.
Abbas eventually picked out Atkinson at backward point off Tongue late in the day and Razaullah almost forgot to review when he was given out lbw to a Dan Lawrence ball that was missing leg stump. He was last man out next ball, however, advancing to Lawrence and stumped by Jordan Cox for 81.
Masood too fell agonisingly short of his century but led a collective show of grit the like of which Pakistan had failed to muster all series, backed up by fifties from his captain, Babar Azam, opener Azan Awais and Razaullah's boundary laden effort.
Pakistan's abject batting display on the first day, when they were bowled out for 133 inside 34 overs, hadn't helped their cause but Masood's 95 on Friday was key in making England bat again.
Masood and Awais - survivors amid the cull of players and coaching staff after the Lord's Test, which also resulted in Razaullah being called up - put on a 125-run partnership, Pakistan's first century stand of the series, to lift their side from a dire 2 for 0 while staring at a first-innings deficit of 320.
Masood and Babar added another 89 for the fourth wicket and Pakistan trailed by just 23 at tea. But England's short-ball barrage accounted for Babar and Saud Shakeel, the last of Pakistan's recognised batters.
Masood and Awais had made the most of favourable batting conditions in the morning, adding 73 runs.
Masood, dropped on 13 in the cordon the previous day, edged a Tongue short ball past a diving Harry Brook at second slip then turned a fuller one to deep square leg for back-to-back fours.
Masood was put down again on 40 by sub fielder Theo Wylie, who had taken a straightforward catch at midwicket to remove him in the first innings but on this occasion failed to hold on as Masood attempted to drive and sent a leading edge to point. The ball raced away for four to compound Wylie's disappointment but captain Joe Root quick to console him at the end of the over.
It was Lawrence who provided the initial breakthrough with his offspin, striking with his second ball as Awais feathered a catch to Cox, standing in for injured wicketkeeper Jamie Smith.
Cox didn't look convinced as he went up in appeal, so faint was the edge, but Root had an excellent view from leg slip and called for the DRS straight away after Awais was initially adjudged not out. Replays confirmed contact with the bat, although there would have been legitimate cause for a stumping appeal too, so sharp were Cox's reactions.
That left it to Masood and Babar to maintain the resistance and they did that, despite conditions beginning to favour the bowlers after lunch, Ollie Robinson making the ball swing and finding good movement off the seam again.
It was Lawrence again who broke another important stand, this time with a screamer at fourth slip, curling his right wrist upwards while diving at full stretch with the ball hanging in his fingertips millimetres from the turf. That ended Masood's impressive knock and gave Atkinson his second wicket of the series across 53.2 overs at that point.
Babar stuck to his task, raising his half-century off 76 balls. He was on 75 and his heart would have been in his mouth - Wylie's too - when, having pulled an Archer bouncer for four, he skied the next ball to deep third. A backpedalling Wylie collected on the boundary but fumbled the parry back to himself as he stepped outside the rope then back in, all of which was moot when replays showed the fielder's foot on the sponge as he gathered initially.
Babar added just one more run, however, as England's short-ball ploy paid off and he was caught behind thrusting his bat down the leg side at one from Tongue.
Shakeel, who had scored 97 in previous Test and played a lone hand as Pakistan's leading run-scorer with 43 in the first innings of this match, found himself with plenty more to do.
But when he fell to a brutal short ball from Archer, gloving to Emilio Gay at short leg, Pakistan's three debutants were set to be exposed - or so England thought. Atkinson removed two of them with balls that nipped in slightly to shave the inside edge, quickly accounting for Ghazi Ghori and Mohammad Imran Randhawa, but, from there, Razaullah had other ideas.
