The bitter cricketing history of Pakistan v England – in pictures

England v Pakistan is a sporting rivalry with a chequered past, and such has been the behaviour of players from both sides down the years that there is little love lost. The two sides have been playing each other since 1954 … Photograph: Bob Thomas/Popperfoto/Getty Images

… when Abdul Hafeez Kardar, who had played for India on the 1946 tour a year before partition, became the first captain to win a Test in any nation's debut series in England, tying the rubber 1-1 with victory at The Oval thanks to Fazal Mahmood’s 12 for 99 Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

Two winters later the MCC sent an A side to tour Pakistan, then divided into East and West states, led by Donald Carr. During the third unofficial Test at Peshawar, the tourists' discontent at the umpiring of Idris Begh, who they perceived to be favouring the home side with his leg-before calls, erupted at the close of the third day's play when, according to contemporary Pakistan sources, he was 'kidnapped' and subjected to the 'humiliation' of being drenched in water at the team’s hotel by Carr, Brian Close, Roy Swetman and Harold Stephenson Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images

In 1968-69 and again in 1977-78, matches were interrupted by pro-democracy demonstrations and the riot police's brutal suppression of them
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When Pakistan came to England in 1978, Bob Willis felled the helmetless nightwatchman Iqbal Qasim (pictured) with a fearsome bouncer at Edgbaston and caused such a stink that he was censured by Wisden, and the Test and County Cricket Board issued a statement 'bitterly regretting' the incident
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Four years later Imran Kahn's team felt aggrieved by a decision made by the umpire David Constant (pictured) to give Sikander Bakht out caught by Mike Gatting at bat-pad off Vic Marks when he hadn't even feathered the ball, a call which derailed their chances of posting a more formidable target. When they returned in 1987 Pakistan had made it clear that they had no faith in Constant and demanded that he should not be picked for any of the Tests. The TCCB ignored them, publicised their demand and appointed him to stand at Lord's and The Oval Photograph: Adrian Murrell/Getty Images

The following winter at Faisalabad the chickens came home to roost in the most notorious of all player v umpire conflicts when Shakhoor Rana (left) and Mike Gatting traded insults after Rana accused the England captain of cheating for signalling to a fielder, David Capel, not to walk in from his position so vigorously. Rana called Gatting 'a fucking cheating cunt', bringing to a head the rancour that had existed from the first Test when England had been dumbfounded by decisions given by Shakeel Khan Photograph: Adrian Murrell/ALLSPORT

Gatting apologised for his part in the unsavoury incident, though his note was so brief it hardly lacked sincerity Photograph: Guardian

Ian Botham and Imran Khan squared up in the high court in 1996 as Khan successfully defended himself against a libel action brought against him. Botham was incensed that Khan had reportedly described him and team-mate Allan Lamb as 'racist, ill-educated and lacking in class'. But Khan was deemed to have been misquoted Photograph: Getty Images

England did not return to play a Test in Pakistan until 2000 when the series was won in the gloom at Karachi despite complaints about the gamesmanship and slow-coach tactics of the home side’s captain, Moin Khan Photograph: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images

Relations reached a nadir during Pakistan's 2010 tour of England when Mohammad Amir, captain Salman Butt and Mohammad Asif of Pakistan fixed several no balls in the Lord's Test as part of a lucrative betting scam and were jailed for their actions Photograph: Clive Rose/Getty Images