England complete historic 3-0 clean sweep against Pakistan

Ben Duckett led the way with an unbeaten 82 as England took barely 40 minutes to seal an eight-wicket victory and a historic 3-0 series sweep of Pakistan.

The tourists resumed on day four in Karachi needing just 55 runs to reach their target of 167, having bowled Pakistan out for 216 on the back of Rehan Ahmed's debut five-for the previous day.

Heading into their first tour of Pakistan for 17 years, England had only beaten the hosts in Test matches twice before on their own turf - and the last of those came in 2000 in the dark in Karachi.

It brought to an end a memorable 2022 for England under the leadership of Stokes and head coach Brendon McCullum, with the red-ball team's attention now turning to the two-match series away to World Test Championship holders New Zealand in February.

Pakistan captain Babar Azam

“It's definitely disappointment as a team. We are not good enough to fight back, but credit to the England team because they played very well.”

"There are definitely lots of positive things in this series we can take into the next series [at home to New Zealand], but we will also discuss where we lacked in the matches so we will fix that."

England captain Ben Stokes

"It's been perfect. We've got a process of which we want to play, but one thing which has been the challenge this series has been the different types of pitches we've had to play on. But we stuck to our gameplan and I think we adapted really well, whether that's with bat or ball.

“It just comes down to belief - the belief I have in the 10 other guys around the field with me. Not at one point throughout this series did I not believe in the team and what we're trying to do, and I think that resonates around everybody”.

"To be able to lead a group full of that belief and confidence gives me so much confidence in myself, and that's a very special thing to be able to say you have that feeling for your players."