Manchester, June 4: Pakistan took eight wickets for 60 runs in the final session, to beat England by 108 runs in the second and final Test here at Old Trafford on Monday.

England, 196 for two at tea, looked comfortably placed for a draw but they succumbed primarily to the off-spin of Saqlaim Mushtaq who took four for 74, the home side all out for 261.

But four of England's last eight wickets fell to unspotted no-balls, although it was a still superb effort from the tourists to finish off the match in style.

England lost Graham Thorpe for his interval score of 10 when the Surrey left-hander's off-stump was knocked back by Pakistan captain and fast bowler Waqar Younis with the fifth delivery of the new ball.

The former Surrey star's fine delivery left England 201 for three in the 83rd over, Thorpe making 128 runs fewer than in the first innings.

Then Wasim Akram, 35 Sunday and playing his last Test in England on the ground where he had been Lancashire's overseas player for a decade, surprised England centurion Marcus Trescothick with a steeply bouncing delivery.

The batsman could only help the ball behind where wicket-keeper Rashid Latif took a good diving legside catch, England now 213 for four.

Somerset left-hander Trescothick had made 117 in just over five hours, facing 272 balls including one six and 15 fours in an innings that lasted just over six hours. It was the 25-year-old's second Test hundred and his first in England.

Pakistan then destroyed England taking four wickets for one run in a 13 ball spell that lasted 13 minutes.

First England stand-in captain Alec Stewart, deputising for the injured Nasser Hussain, was lbw playing no stroke to county team-mate Saqlain for 17.

Then on 230, Nick Knight, who had come in for Hussain who was out with a fractured thumb, was lbw first ball to Wasim, although replays showed West Indian umpire Eddie Nicholls had missed a no-ball.

Surrey left-hander Ian Ward then cut at Saqlain and was caught behind by Rashid for 10. TV replays showed that this time English umpire David Shepherd had failed to call a no-ball.

Next delivery Andy Caddick went for a duck, clean bowled by Saqlain's famous 'mystery' ball that turns away from the right-hander, another uncalled no-ball.

Amazingly, Saqlain had failed to take a wicket in his first unbroken spell of 39 overs on Monday.

England were 230 for seven, Saqlain on a hat-trick at the start of his next over. Gough survived that but going into the last 15 overs England were 235 for 8, six wickets lost for 29 runs, five fieldsmen around the bat for Saqlain.

Waqar had spent plenty of time talking to English batsmen and gave Gough some verbals when he drove him for four as well as showing dissent when umpire Nicholls rejected an lbw appeal.

Cork had no answer to a Saqlain quicker ball, plumb lbw for four, although again Shepherd failed to spot the bowler overtepping. His partnership with Gough had lasted 59 balls.

Waqar ended the match when he had Darren Gough brilliantly caught at gully by substitute fielder Imran Nazir off Waqar for 23. Last man Matthew Hoggard was nought not out, six overs and five balls remaining.

Earlier Trescothick, 88 at lunch, spent nearly an hour in the 90s, before a single off Abdur Razzaq took him to three figures, England seemingly on their way to a draw.

Pakistan got the second wicket they so badly wanted when Michael Vaughan, who made 120 in the first innings, was caught behind for 14 by Latif as he fenced against a delivery from medium-pacer Abdur Razzaq.

England were now 174 for two in the 68th of a minimum 90 overs. Vaughan had been in for 80 minutes, facing 62 balls, his scoring rate and that of Trescothick's too slow for England to sustain slim hopes of victory.

Had they reached their target of 370, it would have been the third highest fourth innings total in Test cricket history, surpassing Australia's 369 for six against Pakistan at Hobart in 1999-2000.

The most England had made batting last to win a Test was 332 for seven against Australia at Melbourne in 1928-29, while their highest chase on home soil happened nearly a century ago when they posted 262 for nine against Australia at The Oval in 1902.

Overnight they were 85 without loss but shortly before lunch, Pakistan struck when Waqar beat Michael Atherton's defensive stroke and bowled him middle-stump for 51, England 146 for one.

Defeat was then far away from English minds but Pakistan had other ideas in a thrilling finale.

The result meant Pakistan had levelled the two match series at one apiece after England's innings and nine runs victory at Lord's.

Inzamam-Ul-Haq was named man of the match and Pakistan's man of the series, for his 114 and 85 here, with Thorpe winning the England player of the series award.