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Anderson and Robinson bowl England to stunning first Test win over Pakistan

Some 22 years on from England’s miracle in the dark in Karachi came another famous win that beat the setting sun by a matter of minutes.

After batting like the clappers all Test match and inviting Pakistan to chase a sporting target of 343 from four sessions on the torpid pitch of Rawalpindi, Ben Stokes and his tourists skittled their hosts for 268 for a 1-0 series lead.

It followed a truly memorable final session that saw England claim the final five Pakistan wickets for 11 runs across 19.3 nail-biting overs. Jimmy Anderson claimed figures of four for 36 from 24 overs, Ollie Robinson four for 50 from 22, and Jack Leach delivered the coup de grace when he got the delayed second new ball to pin tailender Naseem Shah lbw and spark wild celebrations.

Robinson was the bowler to light the touch-paper for this thrilling victory charge after the tea interval, getting the old ball to reverse and knocking over the last two recognised batsmen, Azhar Ali and Agha Salman, almost immediately. The lock picked, Anderson then simply barged through the door, vapourising Zahid Mahmood and Haris Rauf in the space of three balls.

But as the winter sun began its descent, resistance formed and the tension grew. The final pairing of Naseem and Mohammad Ali negotiated 30 minutes of England going hammer-and-tong, the former handed a life in the gloaming as an edge off Stokes somehow flew between Ollie Pope and Joe Root at first slip.

It would have been cruel on Pope had this proved decisive after 251 gruelling overs as stand-in wicketkeeper. Instead, the 24-year-old, one of four centurions in England’s blitz to 657 in the first innings, could look back on a leading role in a victory that sees England 1-0 up heading into Friday’s second Test in

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