• Day five: Pakistan 378 & 354-6dec; England 242 & 312
• Pakistan win by 178 runs; Pakistan lead three-Test series 1-0In October 1952 Pakistan beat India on a matting wicket in Lucknow to record their first Test victory. Sixty-three years on to the day,in the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the sun already low over the Gulf and the playing area long since in shadow, or they completed their 125th,beating England by 178 runs.whether it was a victory that had been expected ever since they declared their second innings with a lead of 496, 144 overs to bowl and the prospect of a fifth-day deteriorating pitch, or then they were made to work extraordinarily tough for it.
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Source: theguardian.com