"In my opinion, when you are defending 563 you have to attack more," Miandad said after the match ended in a draw. "But he let our batsman settle down and we took the time and got past the follow-on mark of 364.

"I feel the bowlers didn't attack the stumps enough and they bowled a line just waiting for our batsmen to make a mistake and that was to our advantage, because at one stage we were 285 for six. They didn't try to make our batsmen play.

"Had that been my team, I would have said we must attack and make sure the other team didn't make the follow on."

Moin Khan and Mohammad Sami put on a stand of 152 to take Pakistan beyond the follow-on mark of 364, with Moin scoring his fourth Test century (137) and his first in over seven years, while Sami scored his highest Test score of 25.

Sami also came back strongly in the second innings to take five wickets for 44 in 16 overs after his dismal performance in the first, his figures reading none for 126 off 27 overs.

The Pakistan coach also said, "We could have done better. We didn't push on when we had them 52 for seven. That was the time we should have gone for the kill and we would have won the game."

Fleming said the New Zealand players had discussed how they were going to use the 105 overs originally available to them but with that reduced to 75 overs because of morning drizzle, the equation had changed.

"We knew then that the only team that could win was Pakistan," Fleming said. "And that played on us and there was a definite shift in our minds. We didn't help the situation by playing some poor shots, but you've got to hand it to Sami after the way he bowled in the first innings.

"He had been poor, but he obviously got some confidence the way he batted yesterday and he came back today and showed how good a bowler he was."

Sami said he could not get into rhythm in the first innings. "I was getting no-balls all the time and it upset me," he said. "Today it was much better. I was enjoying it much more."