RAWALPINDI: Pakistan’s first Test match at home in over a decade is heading for a tame draw after rain and bad light wiped out almost the entire third day’s play against Sri Lanka at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium here on Friday. After day three’s first session was washed out by wet weather, only 27 minutes of play was possible before the players walked off with just 5.2 overs bowled. The umpires called off play at 15:35pm local time, after only 91 overs of play in three days. Sri Lanka progressed to 282-6 from an overnight total of 263-6, with all-rounder Dhananjaya de Silva on 87. Lower-order batsman Dilruwan Perera was unbeaten on six as stop-start play left the players and some 2,000 fans, mostly school kids, frustrated. On Thursday, rain and poor light kept the teams off the field for all but 83 minutes. For Pakistan, 16-year-old pacer Naseem Shah (2-83) and Shaheen Shah Afridi (2-58) were the most successful bowlers. The conditions have put a dampener on the long-awaited return to Test cricket in Pakistan, following the 2009 militant attack on Sri Lanka’s team bus that left eight people dead and several players and officials wounded. But despite the poor weather, schoolchildren were thrilled when Pakistan players went to the fence to take selfies with them. “I am over the moon as I had a selfie with (batsman) Babar Azam and my wish has come true,” said Amna Ansari, a school student from Islamabad. Hamad Ali, from Rawalpindi thanked the Sri Lankan team for touring Pakistan. “It needed a big heart to come to a country where their team was attacked,” Ali said. “We must thank Sri Lanka and hope more teams will come to our country.” Gradual improvement in security allowed Pakistan to host limited-overs series from 2015 to 2019 but foreign teams refused to play five-day games. The second Test starts in Karachi from December 19.