Pakistan's Test wins in England

4. Pakistan won by 2 wickets, Lord’s, 1992:

By this time, Pakistan had defeated England once in every way possible, by runs, by wickets and by an innings as well. In 1992 the Pakistan team traveled to England under the legendary Javed Miandad who relied mostly upon the bowling partnership of Wasim and Waqar in Tests. Little did he know, the two “W”s were going to effect the match with the bat as much as with the ball.

Batting first, England were off to a great start with the score reading 123 without the loss of any wickets. But once Wasim opened the floodgates by bowling out Graham Gooch for 69, Waqar Younis wrecked the England batting by picking up 6 wickets for 91 runs. What looked like a 500 score when the openers were batting, was reduced to 254. But after Pakistan were looking comfortable for a big lead at 123/1 and 228/3 later, Devon Malcolm and Phil DeFreitas produced devastating spells of fast bowling picking up 7 wickets amongst themselves which pegged back the progressing score to 293 all out.

Trailing by a mere 38 runs, England were again rocked by the Pakistani bowlers who folded them up for 175, Wasim and Waqar accounting for 13 wickets out of 20. Pakistan looked all set to go 1-0 up in the 5-match series but Carl Lewis and debutant Ian Salisbury had them reeling on 95/8. However, they could not finish the job as the duo of Wasim and Waqar snatched an unlikely victory for Pakistan putting up an unbeaten partnership of 46 runs.