Pakistan took control of the second Test in Wellington on day two, bowling out New Zealand before establishing a 229-run lead.

Pakistan took control of the second Test in Wellington on day two, bowling out New Zealand before establishing a 229-run lead.

Pace bowler Mohammad Asif took four wickets for 40 runs and leg-spinner Danish Kaneria's six overs returned three for six as the Black Caps were routed for 99.

The Black Cats lost their last five wickets for 14 runs and fell further behind as their opponents closed on 64 for two second time around at the Basin Reserve.

It represented an excellent day for Pakistan, who started well by taking their overnight first innings score of 161 for six to 264.

Kamran Akmal, who scored his 11th Test half-century, and Umar Gul (31) added 64 runs for the eighth wicket after Mohammad Aamer had departed for 21.

But once the wicketkeeper went for 70 it did not take long for the final two wickets of Asif (four) and Gul to fall as New Zealand wrapped up the tail 20 minutes before lunch.

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Akmal survived two umpire reviews before he was dismissed for 70 when captain Daniel Vettori made a good catch running back from mid-off to give Daryl Tuffey his first wicket of the day and third of the innings.

Tuffey should have had another earlier in the session when Mohammad Aamer, who resumed the day on two, gifted an easy chance to Taylor in the slips - but it was dropped.

Aamer added just four more runs to his total before edging an Iain O'Brien delivery to Taylor, who made no mistake a second time.

Tuffey and Vettori were the chief wicket-takers - Tuffey marking his Test comeback with four for 64 and his skipper taking four for 58. O'Brien took the other two for 78.

New Zealand's reply started poorly when Aamer got Martin Guptill for a four-ball duck just prior to lunch.

Daniel Flynn escaped a duck in Asif's first over after lunch when Salman Butt at short leg juggled the ball six times before dropping it.

The right-arm pace bowler had success in his very next over when Tim McIntosh edged a delivery onto his pads and Butt made amends for his previous effort by diving forward to make the catch.

The New Zealand opener had faced 21 balls for his four runs and his dismissal left the Black Caps on five for two.

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Ross Taylor and Flynn combined for 43 runs before Taylor shouldered arms to a Gul delivery which nipped back and broke his stumps, ending his innings on 30.

Gul struck again in his next over, continuing Peter Fulton's horror run when he had the tall right-hander trapped leg before wicket for a two-ball duck.

Flynn and Grant Elliott added 33 runs either side of tea but the partnership ended with the score on 85 when Flynn became his team's fifth victim - trapped lbw by Asif for 29.

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That wicket sparked a slump, with Brendon McCullum dismissed with Asif's next delivery for a duck, caught at second slip by Shoaib Malik.

Elliott was next to go, for 20, when he was caught and bowled by Kaneria. And 95 for seven became 96 for eight soon after when Vettori (six) was caught by Misbah-ul-Haq off the bowling of Kaneria.

O'Brien lasted just three balls before he fell for a duck, caught by Imran Farhat - again off Kaneria.

And the Black Caps' effort with the bat ended one run short of three figures when Tuffey was caught by captain Mohammad Yousuf, with Asif the bowler.

Pakistan's openers took their team's second innings to 49 before O'Brien claimed the wickets of both.

Salman Butt went for 18, caught by Taylor, then Farhat followed for 35 - which included four fours and a six - when Fulton caught him at second slip.

Yousuf came together and saw out the final four overs, making 10 and one respectively, before stumps.