Quotes: Sehwag/Dravid/Inzi

Virender Sehwag and Rahul Dravid were unable to set a new world record opening stand in Tests on the final day of the drawn first Test in Lahore.

Sehwag fell for 254 as India came off for bad light on 410-1 on a day in which just 14 balls were bowled.

Sehwag was caught off the seamer Rana Naved-ul-Hasan with the score on 410 and the match ended soon afterwards.

The pair were an agonising three runs short of the 50-year-old record established by two of their countrymen.

In 1956, Indian openers Vinoo Mankad and Pankaj Roy had put on 413 against New Zealand.

Pakistan declared at 679-7 in their first innings - and, with Sehwag and Dravid finding form, hopes of any positive result in the match had long been written off.

But after most of the final day had been lost to rain, the Indian pair agreed to bat in bad light.

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They later revealed that if they had not been 10 runs short of the record, they would have declined the invitation.

But the fans who had stayed patiently in the hope of getting some cricket were soon rewarded by an action-packed over from Naved, the second to be bowled.

Sehwag leg-glanced for two for his 250 and hit a spanking drive through the covers for four.

Then, he repeatedly attempted to edge the bowler over the slip cordon for four.

He missed twice and the third time could only snick a catch to wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal.

Three balls later, the light became too bad again and the umpires called for a slightly early tea, but there was no further play.