Pakistan won their first overseas Test in three years, beating West Indies by eight wickets at Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain to draw the two-match series 1-1. (BBC Sport)

The tourists needed just 75 to win on day four and knocked off the target inside 24 overs. Abdullah Shafique and captain Babar Azam each finished on 24 not out, steering Pakistan home before lunch — a chase this small because West Indies collapsed from 103-6 overnight to 117 all out, losing their last three wickets inside half an hour with batter Brandon King absent hurt. (BBC Sport)

The rot was arrested by spin. Ali Usman, playing only his second Test, took 4-39, and Sajid Khan returned 4-32, the pair sharing all ten wickets in West Indies' second innings. (BBC Sport)

Pakistan's bowlers did the finishing job, but their position of strength was built across a patient first innings. Shafique anchored it with 160 not out, Babar made 88, and Azan Awais chipped in with a half-century as Pakistan posted 387 — a lead of 43 after West Indies had been bowled out for 344 in their first dig. (BBC Sport; PCB)

That West Indies total was built on fifties from Justin Greaves (73) and Roston Chase (70), with Sajid Khan doing the bulk of the damage by taking 4-85. (PCB)

West Indies had taken the series lead with a win in the first Test in Tarouba, meaning Pakistan arrived in Trinidad needing a win to avoid a series defeat. They got one, and a significant one: the result snapped a streak of eight consecutive away Test defeats stretching back to a victory over Sri Lanka in Colombo in July 2023. (BBC Sport)

For a side that had not won on the road in three years, the manner of the win mattered as much as the result. The spinners ran through the lower order on a wearing fourth-day pitch — the kind of surface where the ball begins to grip and turn unevenly, making batting increasingly treacherous. That Pakistan had two slow bowlers sharing all ten wickets in an innings overseas speaks to a bowling attack finding the right tools for Caribbean conditions.

The chase had two hiccups. Imam-ul-Haq was caught by Jason Greaves off Jayden Seales for nine, and Azan Awais was bowled by Shamar Joseph for 18, leaving Pakistan 57-2 at lunch — still 18 short. But the target was small enough that wickets only delayed the inevitable. Shafique, who had already carried his bat through the first innings, saw it home alongside his captain. (BBC Sport)

Pakistan now head to England for a three-Test series starting at Headingley on Wednesday, 19 August. (BBC Sport) That tour will demand more of their batters against a seaming ball and more of an attack built here around turn. But they travel having remembered what it feels like to win away from home — and that, after eight straight defeats, was overdue.