Misbah relieved to win game of patience

Misbah-ul-Haq, Pakistan's captain, said that he knew through a testing final session of the second Test in Dubai that victory was "just a matter of two balls" but the late resistance that his team encountered from a spirited England tail was "frustrating".

England started the final day on 182 for 3 and, having lost out their last seven wickets for 36 runs in the first innings, they seemed to be facing a mid-afternoon defeat at the latest after both overnight batsmen, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow, fell before lunch.

But the game turned into a dramatic finish when England's lower, inspired by Adil Rashid's maiden Test fifty, a 172-ball innings of 61, resisted hard to take the game deep into the final hour.

Rashid and Stuart Broad added 60 runs in 15 overs for the eighth wicket before Broad fell to a superb yorker from Wahab Riaz, but Mark Wood proved even more indomitable as he and Rashid clung on for a further 29 overs to take the match beyond tea.

"Obviously in these sort of games you have to look at all the points," said Misbah. "When they were batting in the morning, we got breakthroughs but then, after getting eight wickets, there was a partnership and that was frustrating.