RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) — Opening batter Abdullah Shafique had three reprieves on yet another dry wicket as Pakistan reached 95-1 at lunch Monday in the second cricket test against South Africa.

Shafique was dropped by Tristan Stubbs at third slip off Kagiso Rabada’s fourth ball, before he’d scored. Then Marco Jansen’s sharp delivery beat the inside edge of Shafique’s bat, but the bails didn’t fall after the ball grazed the off stump.

Keshav Maharaj, who missed South Africa’s 93-run defeat in the first test last week, then failed to grab a return catch to his left in his first over after inducing an outside edge off Shafique’s bat.

And luck continued to go Shafique’s way in the first session when he was adjudged leg before wicket against Maharaj but went for a successful television

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