Chasing 405 for victory after bowling out Pakistan for 239 in their second innings, New Zealand were dismissed for 263 to lose with more than a day remaining.

It was Pakistan's first Test win since their five-wicket defeat of South Africa in Port Elizabeth in January 2007 - 13 Tests ago.

Mohammad Asif was named man of the match after his five-wicket haul in the second innings gave him a match return of nine wickets for 107 runs.

The teams will now head to Napier for the series decider next week.

New Zealand resumed day four on 70 for three but lost quick wickets as Peter Fulton went in the third over having added just one run to his overnight score of 12.

Grant Elliott faced 19 balls before being bowled by Danish Kaneria for six trying to sweep the leg-spinner, a dismissal which left New Zealand 108 for five.


In one bright moment for New Zealand, Ross Taylor, who began the day on 15, brought up his eighth Test half-century with a six in the same over.

But even he had lived dangerously, needing the stiff breeze at the Basin Reserve to get a mistimed skied shot over the boundary rope. Taylor's 51 took 80 balls and included four boundaries and three sixes.

The right-hander showed more aggression having reached his half-century, taking 10 runs off Umar Gul's second over of the day following up a boundary with another top-edged six which went out of the ground.

A frustrated Gul responded with short-pitched deliveries which caught Taylor in the ribs and rattled his helmet.

It did not knock the batsman off his stride though and for the second Test in succession Taylor looked primed to reach his fifth Test century - but just as he did in Dunedin he fell in the nineties.

He was six runs shy at University Oval, this time it was three as he attempted to drive a Mohammad Aamer delivery, only to edge it to Misbah-ul-Haq in the slips.

His 135-ball 97 included nine boundaries and five sixes, but more importantly for New Zealand he and Brendon McCullum added 78 valuable runs for the sixth wicket - although ultimately it was all in vain.

New Zealand would have been in a far worse position but for more sloppy fielding from the Pakistan team.


McCullum had made a patient 19 - and New Zealand were 175 for five - when Gul dropped a straightforward chance at point - the third dropped catch of the innings.

Two overs and two runs later and the wicketkeeper was handed another life when Rudi Koertzen's leg before wicket decision was overturned after McCullum called for a review, having got some bat on the ball before it hit his pads.

He and Daniel Vettori (16) made it safely to lunch with New Zealand on 205 for six but the regular fall of wickets in the afternoon session put paid to their victory hopes.

McCullum departed with the fifth ball after lunch without adding to his lunch score of 24 when he edged a Kaneria delivery to Kamran Akmal.

That dismissal lifted the leg-spinner to fourth on the list of Pakistan's leading Test wicket-takers behind Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Imran Khan.

Daryl Tuffey was trapped lbw by Kaneria but called for a review - which only confirmed umpire Simon Taufel's original decision.

Iain O'Brien, playing in his final Test on his home ground, was dropped first ball by Shoaib Malik and Vettori got a streaky boundary when the second slip made only a half-hearted effort to get to a thick outside edge.

Vettori and O'Brien had added 40 runs for the ninth wicket when the captain went for 40.

He had already been dropped by Kaneria by then but Asif struck immediately with the new ball with Umar Akmal at last holding a catch.

O'Brien was the last man out for 31 - his highest Test score - giving Asif figures of five for 67, while Kaneria took three for 74 for an overall six for 80.