Teams who had successful test tours to England.

Pakistan- 1982 to 2006- 24 years

Botham congratulating Miandad after a marathon knock of 261 at the Oval in 1987

Having narrowly lost the 1982 series, Imran's men put up a fine all-round performance to clinch the 1987 series against an English side that had successfully retained the Ashes down under the previous season.

From there, they would go undefeated for 19 years adding two more series triumphs and a stalemate. Compared to their subcontinental neighbours, their pace attack was more potent as they kept producing bowlers of the calibre of Wasim, Waqar, Aqib Javed and later, Shoaib Akthar. Their spinners- Abdul Qadir, Mushtaq Ahmed and Saqlain Mushtaq were also instrumental to Pakistan's success.

The batting which relied on Miandad found an able replacement in Inzamam-ul-Haq. Excluding the test matches played during the 1982 and 2006 tours, Pakistan played in 15 tests emerging successful in 6 of them, losing 2 and managed to draw 7 times.