Captain Daniel Vettori and the returning Daryl Tuffey did the damage for New Zealand as they took the honours on a shortened opening day of the second Test against Pakistan on Thursday.
Captain Daniel Vettori and the returning Daryl Tuffey did the damage for New Zealand as they took the honours on a shortened opening day of the second Test against Pakistan on Thursday.
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Tuffey, replacing the injured Shane Bond in the Black Caps line-up and celebrated his come-back after a five-year hiatus with two wickets for 32 runs.
Vettori chipped in with three for 42 as Pakistan slumped to 161 for six when bad light ended play early at the Basin Reserve. Kamran Akmal will resume Day Two in Wellington on 21 and Mohammad Aamer on two.
Pakistan had made steady if slow progress once play got under way two hours 10 minutes late with openers Imran Farhat and Salman Butt putting on 60 runs in 32.2 overs for the first wicket as New Zealand's bowlers got little assistance from the pitch.
Iain O'Brien, who had changed ends after bowling into the wind, broke the opening stand when Butt top-edged a rising delivery to Tuffey at mid-on.
Then Vettori grabbed two wickets in three balls when Farhat edged a delivery to Ross Taylor in the slips and Mohammad Yousuf was trapped leg before wicket two balls later without scoring.
Teenager Umar Akmal, the Pakistan hero of the first Test, and the recalled Misbah-ul-Haq then guided Intikhab Alam's side to 90 for three at tea.
The pair put on 53 runs before Umar became the first of Tuffey's two scalps when he edged a delivery onto his stumps, just four runs shy of a second successive half-century. It was Tuffey's first Test wicket since the match against England in June 2004 and he did not take long to claim a second when Shoaib Malik drove straight to Vettori at mid-off to leave Pakistan on 131 for five.
Misbah and Kamran Akmal added only a further 25 runs to the total when Vettori struck for a third time, trapping Misbah lbw as he attempted a slog sweep.
Just two more overs were completed before bad light forced the teams from the field.
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