Usman Khawaja capped a series for the ages in his country of birth with another century, as Australia declared after tea on day four with a lead of 350 runs in the deciding third Test against Pakistan.
Captain Pat Cummins ended Australia's second innings at 227 for 3 with Khawaja on 104 not out and Travis Head unbeaten on 11. Pakistan will need to face 31 overs until stumps and 121 overs overall in the series finale after draws in Rawalpindi and Karachi.
History is against Pakistan with 210 being the highest successful fourth innings chase in Lahore while no team has survived more than 110 overs. Pakistan did remarkably well to stave off defeat in Karachi by surviving 171.4 overs, but this looms as a tough challenge on a slow Lahore surface offering reverse swing and occasional turn.
Pakistan's attempts to rouse a comeback on day four were defied by Khawaja, who notched his 12th Test century - and second in the series. The remade opener has now scored fourth tons in nine innings since being recalled in January and has been the dominant batter in this series with 496 runs at 165.33. He was the only Australian batter to score a century in the historic series, the first between the teams in Pakistan since 1998.
Just before tea, in more celebrations for Australia, Steven Smith smoked a boundary to become the quickest to 8000 Test runs in his 151th innings - one faster than Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara.
Leading by 220 runs at lunch with nine wickets in hand, there was an expectation Australia would put the foot down in a bid to force an early declaration. As has been the case throughout the series, runs were hard to muster against the older ball although Australia didn't particularly look in any great hurry.
With wickets hard to come by for Pakistan, dashing their hopes of a fightback, a stalemate ensued for much of the second session with attention turning to when Cummins would declare.