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Abu Dhabi: England, lifted by a monumental double hundred by skipper Alastair Cook, closed the fourth day of the first Test against Pakistan on 569-8 in Abu Dhabi on Friday.
Cook was finally dismissed for 263 after batting for 13 hours and six minutes, hitting 18 boundaries.
Joe Root scored 85 and Ben Stokes made 57 as England led Pakistan's first innings total of 523-8 declared by 46 runs.
Paceman Wahab Riaz was the best Pakistani bowler with 3-116.
Cook began the day on 168 and might have been dismissed just five runs later, when he inside-edged a delivery from Imran Khan and wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed dropped a difficult chance.
But thereafter the England skipper combined superbly with Root in a morning of trouble-free accumulation.
He moved to his double hundred - the third of his Test career, drawing him level with Kevin Pietersen - with a clip behind square off Wahab Riaz.
Root was eventually dismissed after lunch when he chased a wide delivery from Rahat Ali, but Cook's formidable powers of concentration proved greater.
Playing with immense discipline - he hit only three boundaries all day - the captain amassed the highest score by an English batsman overseas since Wally Hammond hit 336 against New Zealand in 1933.
And he might even have been able to overtake his own career best of 294 - set against India at Edgbaston in 2010 - if the umpire had spotted that Malik appeared to overstep in delivering the wicket-taking ball.
Brief scores
Pakistan - 523 for 8 dec (Shoaib 245, Shafiq 107, Stokes 4-57)
England - 569 for 8 (Cook 263, Root 85, Bell 63, Stokes 57, Riaz 3-116)
Status - England lead by 46 runs
