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Pakistan best up four aboriginal wickets afterwards England were set 145 runs for a series-levelling win to set up an arresting accomplishment to the match.
Left-arm spinner Monty Panesar took 6 for 62 in his improvement Test to put his aggregation aural afterimage of a win alone for Pakistan to hit aback defiantly, absolution four top adjustment batsmen to leave England disturbing at 39-4 at tea on the fourth day.
At the break, Andrew Strauss (23) and Matt Prior (nought) were at the bulge with England defective accession 106 runs to win, afterwards both teams fought adamantine in an activity arranged additional affair during which four top-order batsmen Alistair Cook (seven), Ian Bell(three), Kevin Pietersen (one) and Eoin Morgan (nought) went aback to the pavilion.
For Pakistan, left-arm spinner Adul Rehman claimed two wickets for aloof three runs while off-break bowlers Saeed Ajmal and Mohammad Hafeez took one wicket each.
In the penultimate over afore tea, left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman trapped Kevin Pietersen (one) and two assurance afterwards bowled Eoin Morgan (nought) to accession hopes of an absurd win for Pakistan.
Pakistan advance the three-Test alternation 1-0 afterwards acceptable the aboriginal Test by ten wickets in Dubai.
Sensing they can alone agitated their rivals through aboriginal wickets, Pakistan opened the bowling with off-spinner Mohammad Hafeez who responded able-bodied by communicable Alastair Cook (seven) off his own bowling afterwards England had batted carefully to 21 by the 15th over.
Bell, answer to cardinal three afterwards Jonathan Trott bootless to booty the acreage due to a abdomen upset, was all at sea adjoin adept spinner Saeed Ajmal and his acting advance went through his legs to hit the stumps.
Bell fabricated alone three.
Pietersen, who had 16 runs in the series, managed one added afore Rehman trapped him and in the aforementioned over had Morgan bowled to cavity England's hopes of a victory.
Earlier, Pakistan absent their aftermost six wickets with the accession of 89 runs afterwards resuming at 125-4, with all hopes affianced on Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq.
Panesar took three of those wickets to accomplishment with his eighth five-wicket booty in Tests.
England were accustomed an aboriginal wicket by Panesar, who got one to about-face beyond Shafiq's advanced advance and the after bend was able-bodied taken by James Anderson in the abandoned slip. Shafiq hit bristles boundaries during his 138-ball stay.
Before Shafiq's dismissal, Ali completed his 13th half-century with a brace off Graeme Swann, adopting his team's hopes of ambience a appropriate target.
But England's accommodation to booty the additional new brawl as anon as it was due paid affluent assets as Anderson removed the dangerman Ali with a aciculate ascent commitment which bent the bend and cautiously landed in babysitter Matt Prior's gloves.
Ali hit eight boundaries during his 195-ball knock.
Stuart Broad again had Adnan Akmal (13) bent by Strauss in the blooper off an aggressive drive in the abutting over as Pakistan wilted.
Rehman (10) and Ajmal (17) added an invaluable 36 for the eighth wicket afore Panesar captivated up the innings by demography the aftermost two wickets.
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