Pakistan weathered a hostile opening spell that reduced them to 42 for 3 in 13 overs in the first hour, worked their way to safety in the second session, and made a half-hearted attempt to win the Test before settling for a draw that gave them the series 1-0 on the fifth and final day of the second Test at Basin Reserve, Wellington, on Wednesday (January 19). It was their first victory outside the sub-continent since the triumph in New Zealand in 2003-04, and their first overall since 2006-07. Pakistan’s last series win came at home against West Indies. They had won three Test series 2-0.
** Asad Shafiq was on a pair for 22 balls before opening his account with a six and a four through Daniel Vettori’s open straight fields.
** Misbah-ul-Haq (70 not out) scored his sixth successive half-century, three of them unbeaten. After making nine in the first innings of his first Test match as captain against South Africa at Dubai in November 2010, Misbah-ul-Haq went to score a half century each in all six innings.
** Misbah-ul-Haq also became the seventh Pakistani skipper to win Test series against New Zealand in New Zealand. Intikhab Alam, Mushtaq Mohammed, Javed Miandad, Salim Malik, Wasim Akram and Inzamam-ul-Haq were the other Pakistani skippers to achieve this feat before Misbah-ul-Haq.
