South Africa: 615 all out (Ryan Rickelton 259; Mohammad Abbas 3/94)

Pakistan: 194 all out (Babar Azam 58; Kagiso Rabada 3/55)

Pakistan: 312/3 (Shan Masood 137*; Marco Jansen 2/74)

Pakistan trail by 109 runs

NEWLANDS, CAPE TOWN - Pakistan captain, Shan Masood, piled on the runs in the opening session on day four despite Kagiso Rabada and Marco Jansen’s solitary wickets as the visitors got closer to the host's 615 first innings runs at the lunch break on day four of the second and final Test.

Masood, having batted for over six hours in this innings, continued to soldier on at Newlands, piling on the runs on the flat wicket on Monday morning, with the left-handed batter going the entire first session unscathed.

The 35-year-old took his overnight 102* to 137* off 232 deliveries in the lunch break as the Pakistan batters showed more grit and determination on Day Four.

Masood led from the front as the visitors ate at South Africa's lead as they sit with 109 runs behind with five more sessions left in the Test match.

While Masood remained compact in technique, nightwatchman Khurram Shahzad (18 off 47) did a good job keeping Jansen and Keshav Maharaj at bay in the first hour of the first session, surviving almost 10 overs.

Jansen got the better of the nightwatchman, drawing him into a drive only for the batter to get a thick edge straight to Maharaj at point to give South Africa a much-needed breakthrough.

The 24-year-old could have gotten his third wicket of the innings when he nicked off Kamran Ghulam for zero only for David Bedingham, who has five catches in the match, to drop him in the slip cordon.

Rabada, while struggling with no-balls in the first session, bowling 10 of them in the ongoing innings, looked threatening throughout his spell.

The 29-year-old eventually got rewarded for his good bowling as he clean bowled Ghulam (28) for his first scalp of the innings and his 50th at Newlands.

With Pakistan on 312/3 at Lunch, South Africa will be looking to claim the remaining wickets while conceding the least amount of runs as possible in order to complete a third successive series sweep.