New Zealand 299 all out (Young 87, Latham 59, Afridi 3-46) beat Pakistan 252 all out (Iftikhar 94*, Salman 57, Shipley 3-34, Ravindra 3-65) by 47 runs In the end, it all proved one step too far for Pakistan. One indifferent performance with the bat, coupled with a spell of suffocating brilliance by Henry Shipley,

Pakistan 334 for 6 (Babar 107, Salman 58, Masood 44, Henry 3-65) beat New Zealand 232 (Latham 60, Chapman 46, Mir 4-43, Wasim 3-40, Rauf 2-37) by 102 runs After a somewhat off-colour performance where Pakistan allowed New Zealand to get close to them, this was back to business for the hosts. A century from

Ajaz Patel, the New Zealand left-arm spinner, has joined Durham as a replacement for Australia’s Matt Kuhnemann, who suffered a back injury while playing against Glamorgan in April and has had to pull out of his deal. Patel, 34, will link up with the Durham squad ahead of next week’s Championship fixture against Yorkshire and