England beat Pakistan by eight wickets: third Test day four – as it happened

 England beat Pakistan by eight wickets: third Test day four – as it happened

England beat Pakistan by eight wickets: third Test day four – as it happened

Reaction from Ben Stokes:

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7.16am GMT

Here is Ali Martin’s report in full:

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Updated at 7.16am GMT

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Stokes' Specials

As the Barmy Army trumpeter in the stands pootled out Ghost Town in tribute to the late Terry Hall, England wrapped up a historic clean sweep in Pakistan that could easily earn them the tag of The Specials.”

Ali Martin’s report is in and the coverage of the Test has ended which means it must be time to say goodbye. It has been a fantastic Test series to OBO, properly memorable. Thank you as ever for getting involved and keeping us all company and making it what it is - a wonderful thing. Tim’s tweet from yesterday is a fitting one to post here:

A final, seasonal word from Brian Withington:

Morning James, many thanks to you and your colleagues and the contributors from far and wide for all the OBO wisdom and entertainment this year.

Have a great Christmas and looking forward to NZ in the New Year.

Babar Azam speaks: “We are definitely disappointed as a team, we were not good enough to fight back. There’s been lot of positive things in this series, but also things that we lack.”

Spare a thought for Babar, he’s been excellent with the bat once again but looked short of ideas at times in the series in the face of the Stokes/McCullum juggernaut.

Pakistan have been brilliant and the series has been played in a lovely spirit. It’s been 17 long years since England last played here but, as Mike Atherton say on the tv comms, it has almost been worth the wait for what we have seen over the past few weeks.

Young Rehan Ahmed would scoff at this particular Specials number obviously.