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The achievement gave England an incontestable 3-0 win in the series, with the fourth and final One-day International to be played on the aforementioned arena on Tuesday.
Kevin Pietersen hit his eighth ODI hundred while Alastair Cook absent a third afterwards century.
The 31-year-old Pietersen alveolate an best 98-ball 111 while aperture accomplice Cook hit 80 to advice their aggregation check a bashful 223-run ambition set by Pakistan with 12.4 overs to spare.
Pietersen, whose aftermost hundred came adjoin India at Cuttack in November 2008, hit his 10th abuttals to accompany up the win.
Pietersen, who additionally hit two sixes, beyond the 4,000 one-day run mark back he accomplished 57, acceptable the seventh England batsmen to ability the milestone.
He pushed paceman Aizaz Cheema appear square-leg for two to ability his hundred off 93 balls, his aboriginal in 36 innings.
Cook, who hit a career-best 137 and again 102 in the aboriginal two matches, was abstraction able-bodied for his third aeon but fell back he was bent abaft off spinner Saeed Ajmal afterwards a chatty 98-ball knock, hitting six boundaries and a six.
It was a biased win as the Pakistan bowlers looked abandoned adjoin some absorbing batting by Cook and Pietersen who bigger on the antecedent best aperture angle of 147 adjoin Pakistan, set by Michael Atherton and Robin Smith in Karachi in the 1996 World Cup.
Cook fell with 53 still bare afore Eoin Morgan (24 not out) helped Pietersen see off the target.
Earlier, Shahid Afridi hit a 55-ball 51 while Umar Akmal denticulate a 92-ball 50 during their 79-run sixth wicket angle which aerial Pakistan from a ambiguous 97-5 afterwards Misbah-ul Haq won the bung and chose to bat.
Pakistan absent Azhar Ali (five), Mohammad Hafeez (29) and Misbah (one) in the amplitude of aloof two runs.
Two of these wickets went to paceman Stuart Broad, who accomplished with 3-42, while the absorbing Steven Finn added Hafeez to his aboriginal advance of Imran Farhat (nine) in this pace-dominated period.
Finn, who took four wickets in both of the aboriginal two matches afterwards sitting out the Test series, accomplished with 3-24 off 10 overs.
Afridi and Umar repaired the innings, with Afridi hitting three boundaries and a six.
Broad alternate for his additional spell to abolish Umar, bent by Samit Patel afterwards hitting aloof one boundary.
Afridi followed four runs after back he bootless to affix appropriately with a big drive off paceman James Anderson who accomplished with 2-52.
Pakistan, who fabricated two changes from the additional one-dayer, were affected to leave out accomplished batsman Younis Khan who was adversity from a fever.
Asad Shafiq (18) added 46 for the fifth wicket with Umar afore he was run out. Umar Gul fabricated 27 not out to accord some backward drive to the innings.
Both teams will additionally comedy three Twenty20 internationals in Dubai (February 23 and 25) and Abu Dhabi (February 27).
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