DUBAI, Feb 6: Saeed Ajmal and Umar Gul were the chief destroyers as Pakistan won the third and final Test by 71 runs on the fourth day on Monday, recording their first clean sweep in a series against England.

Spinner Ajmal, the scourge of England’s batsmen throughout the series, picked up four for 67 and paceman Gul grabbed four for 61 as the world’s top-ranked test team were bowled out for 252.

Ajmal won the man of the series award for taking 24 wickets. Azhar Ali was named man of the match for his 157 in Pakistan’s second innings.

A diving catch by Younus Khan at slip off Ajmal immediately after lunch on day four trigged yet another England collapse as it removed Alastair Cook one short of his half century.  The one upside for 27-year-old opener Cook was that he became the second youngest player to reach 6,000 test runs — only India’s master batsman Sachin Tendulkar has achieved that feat at a younger age.—Reuters