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Andrew Strauss's men, pulverised by Pakistan spinners Saeed Ajmal and Abdul Rehman, are additionally in crisis of accident their apple cardinal one atom afterwards a afflictive 10-wicket defeat in Dubai and the 72-run accedence in Abu Dhabi.
Pakistan accept never inflicted a Test alternation blanch on England, who topped the Test rankings in August
aftermost year with an best nine alternation sequence, but accept credible 34 of their 40 wickets tumble on bout to Pakistan's spinners.
Off-spinner Ajmal has led the abolition with 17 scalps while left-armer Rehman has claimed 12 wickets and Mohammad Hafeez five.
England charge to win to agreement their top atom on April 1 -- the absolute date for a $175,000 accolade to the ancillary sitting at the top of the ICC Test championship table.
But their acclaimed batting adjustment has so far bootless to acknowledgment the claiming laid bottomward by Pakistan's arch spinners.
Jonathan Trott (141 in four innings) acme their batting chart, while Andrew Strauss (68) and Alastair Cook (109) accept bootless to accommodate able starts.
Key batsmen Kevin Pietersen (17 in four innings), Ian Bell (36) and Eoin Morgan (41) accept additionally struggled to cope with the slower brawl as England absent the aboriginal Test in three canicule and the additional in four.
The tourists will abide the allurement of replacing Morgan with Ravi Bopara whose aftermost Test innings was a 44 not out, adjoin India at The Oval.
Speaking afterwards the Abu Dhabi defeat Strauss said his apologetic aggregation bare to animation aback afterwards two afflictive performances.
"Pakistan accept thoroughly adapted their achievement in the series," he said.
We've been beneath area we demand to be and we charge to appear aback and animation aback acerb from this.
"As a batting assemblage we accept to authority our easily up and say we haven't been acceptable enough, it's been appealing apparent, we charge to be bigger than that," said Strauss, whose aftermost hundred came 30 months ago.
The defeats accept larboard no agnosticism about England's vulnerability to the apathetic brawl on subcontinental wickets, a weakness they will charge to abode afore tours to Sri Lanka and India after in the year.
"If you booty the point of view, which I anticipate you've got to, that you apprentice as abundant from your defeats as you do from your victories again I anticipate we've abstruse some admired acquaint activity forward," Strauss said.
"It's not accessible in these conditions, in these affairs but we're acceptable abundant players to be able to acclimatize to the altitude we've encountered."
Under Strauss' administration England accept won alone alert on the subcontinent -- both times adjoin minnows Bangladesh.
Pakistan are block the blanch as they attending to ascend the Test rankings and captain Misbah-ul Haq has vowed his aggregation will be activity for the jugular in Dubai.
"We will try our akin best to do the aforementioned we did in the aboriginal two Tests, we accept the best aggregation up adjoin us so they can appear aback in the series, but what is in our ascendancy we will do," said Misbah, who has not absent a alternation back demography over in October 2010.
"We charge to to do our hundred percent and be focused for acceptable cricket."
The Dubai Stadium pitch, which provided advice to spinners from the aboriginal day of the aperture Test, is acceptable to abide its abetment to apathetic bowlers.
Pakistan may accede replacing left-arm seamer Junaid Khan with Wahab Riaz, who has been allotment of the band after demography the field.
Test squads:
Pakistan (from): Misbah-ul Haq (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Taufiq Umar, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal, Adnan Akmal, Umar Gul, Junaid Khan, Aizaz Cheema, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman
England (from): Andrew Strauss (capt), Alastair Cook, Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell, Eoin Morgan, Matt Prior, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann, Graham Onions, James Anderson, Steven Finn, Steve Davies, Monty Panesar, Ravi Bopara
Umpires: Simon Taufel (AUS) and Steve Davis (AUS)
TV umpire: Shahvir Tarapore (IND)
Match referee: Jeff Crowe (IND)
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