After an 18-year gap, Pakistan gave India a warm welcome both on and off the field and the only real moment of tension came in the final one-day when Bishan Singh Bedi conceded a match. India seemed on course to win the game - and with it the series - after a barrage of bouncers from Sarfraz Nawaz went unpunished. Unlike the previous two series, both captains adopted a positive approach on flat pitches and Pakistan won mainly because India's batting proved fragile when it mattered. Pakistan's batsmen, on the other hand, were in supreme form. Zaheer Abbas amassed 583 runs in five innings, Javed Miandad made two hundreds and Mushtaq Mohammad and Asif Iqbal both indicated that they could have scored many more runs had the need arisen. For India, Sunil Gavaskar stood tall with 89, 8 not out, 5, 97, 111, and 137. In the second Test at Lahore, a sequence of 13 successive draws was ended when Pakistan won by eight wickets after skittling India out for 199. At Karachi, India's bowling finally crumbled as Pakistan chased a tough target of 164 in 35 minutes and a minimum of 20 overs.