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Pakistan additionally took an incontestable 2-0 advance in the three-match series. This was Pakistan’s seventh Test alternation win adjoin England.
Pakistan won the aboriginal Test in Dubai by ten wickets. The third Test will additionally be played in Dubai from February 3.
This is England's aboriginal alternation defeat afterwards actuality best in their antecedent nine back their accident to the West Indies in aboriginal 2009 -- a arrangement which saw them acceleration to apple cardinal one in the Test rankings in August aftermost year.
Chasing an accessible ambition of 145 runs to win, England were arranged out for a bald 72, their everyman anytime absolute in a Test innings adjoin Pakistan.
Left-arm spinner Abdul Rehman affective six wickets for 25 runs in his career best bowling while off-spinner Saeed Ajmal claimed three for 22.
Rehman was ably assisted by off-spinners Saeed Ajmal (3-22) and Mohammad
Hafeez (1-11) in a bout which saw spinners boss from the aboriginal day.
England absent their top four batsmen in the amplitude of aloof 37 assurance afterwards an added alert alpha on a difficult pitch.
England captain Andrew Strauss topscored with 32 afore he became one of Rehman's victims during his beginning five-wicket haul.
In the penultimate over afore tea, Rehman trapped Kevin Pietersen (one) and two assurance afterwards bowled Eoin Morgan (nought) to accession hopes of an absurd win for Pakistan.
Sensing they could 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 belted carefully to 21 by the 15th over.
Bell, answer to cardinal three afterwards Jonathan Trott was unwell, was all at sea adjoin adept spinner Saeed Ajmal and his acting advance went through his legs to hit the stumps. He fabricated alone three.
Pietersen, who has been woefully out of anatomy authoritative aloof 16 runs in the series, managed one added afore Rehman trapped him and in the aforementioned over had the appropriately out of anatomy Morgan bowled to cavity England's hopes of a victory.
Rehman again accounted for Trott (one) and Stuart Broad (nought) in the aforementioned over to leave England 7-68.
Ajmal absolved Graeme Swann (nought) and Matt Prior (18) to complete his 100 Test wickets in his 19th bout afore Anderson was bent off Rehman to accord Pakistan a amazing win.
England's antecedent everyman adjoin Pakistan was 130 -- fabricated on two occasions at The Oval in 1954 and Lahore in 1987.
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.
Rehman's accomplishment overshadowed Monty Panesar's 6-62, in his aboriginal Test for 30 months, which accomplished Pakistan's additional innings at 214 in the morning.
Panesar took three of those wickets to accomplishment with his eighth five-wicket booty in Tests.
Azhar Ali (68) and Asad Shafiq (43) added 88 for the fifth wicket afore Panesar struck.
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 was bent abaft by Prior.
Broad again had Adnan Akmal (13) bent by Strauss in the block 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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