Pakistan captain Shan Masood hit four consecutive boundaries off Jack Leach, took a single off the last ball to retain strike and then hit Shoaib Bashir's first ball of the next over for a six. An unbeaten 23 off 6 balls and that was it. Pakistan had beaten England by 9 wickets in the third and final Test in Rawalpindi to win the three-match series 2-1.
This was Pakistan's first series win at home in nearly four years. Their first series win against England since 2015. This was only the second time Pakistan won a three-match Test series after losing the first Test after their win against Zimbabwe in 1995.
In many ways, captain Shan Masood's authoritative finish to the Test summed up Pakistan's dominance. After losing the first Test in a road-like pitch, they took some tough calls and turned to spin. England had no answers to Pakistan's three-pronged spin attack.
So effective were Noman Ali, Sajid Khan , and Zahid Mahmood that for the first time in Pakistan's cricket history, there was not a single over bowled by a fast bowler in an entire Test match. Noman and Sajid knocked over all 10 England wickets to dismiss the visitors for 112 before Pakistan raced to victory in Rawalpindi before lunch on day three of the third Test. Noman finished with 6-42 and Sajid 4-69 in an irrepressible spin bowling display after England resumed the third day on a precarious 24-3, with their innings capitulating in 37.
2 overs. England won the first Test by an innings and 47 runs while Pakistan too.
