Zimbabwe take thriller for historic win

Sep 14, 2013

The fifth day began brightly for Zimbabwe, with Adnan Akmal falling in the fourth over of the morning•AFP

Tinashe Panyangara claimed Rehman and Tendai Chatara dismissed Saeed Ajmal, but Misbah and Junaid Khan took Pakistan to lunch, 47 runs adrift of victory•AFP

One ball later, the last man Rahat Ali was run out and Zimbabwe recorded their first Test victory against a nation other than Bangladesh since 2001•AFP

Abdur Rehman put on a useful 34-run stand with Misbah-ul-Haq for the seventh wicket as Pakistan inched toward 200•AFP

With only two wickets left, Misbah, having collected his fifty, shifted gears, hitting four fours in two overs•Associated Press

Misbah was left stranded on 79•AFP

But Chatara induced Junaid's outside edge to pick up his maiden five-wicket haul in Tests and Pakistan were nine down, still 26 runs away from their target•Associated Press

The two-match series was shared 1-1 but Zimbabwe would come out the happier of the two teams; Pakistan slipped two places on the ICC rankings to sixth•Associated Press