Port Elizabeth:  Pakistancaptain Inzamam-ul-Haq hailed Monday's five-wicket win in the second Testagainst South Africa at St George'sPark as the best of his captaincycareer.

"It is not easy for sub-continent teams to win in South Africa,"he said.

 "It is the biggest win for me ascaptain," he said.

The win, with a day to spare, levelled the series, which will be decided inthe third and final Test starting at Newlands in Cape Town Friday.

Inzamam was named man of the match for his unbeaten 92 in the first inningswhich gave Pakistan acrucial lead of 141 after South Africa were bowled out for 124 on the firstday. But he said the credit belonged to the team.

He singled out Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal, who came together when Pakistan were ashaky 92 for five in their second innings and took them to the victory targetof 191 with an unbeaten partnership of 99. Younis made 67 not out and Akmal 57not out.

"Definitely we were under pressure (with five down) but they playedvery well, especially Younis as the senior partner," said Inzamam.

He also praised opening bowler Mohammad Asif, playing in his eighth Test,who took five for 76 in 38 overs in the second innings when Pakistan werereduced to three front-line bowlers following an injury to first inningsdestroyer Shoaib Akhtar.

"He has bowled very well, moving the ball both ways. We are very happythat a new boy has bowled with his control," said Inzamam.

South African captain Graeme Smith said his team lost the match when theywere bowled out cheaply on the first day.

"We played some very good cricket to keep ourselves in the game as longas we did and to give ourselves a chance to win," he said.

The loss ended a streak of three successive wins by South Africa.

"Pakistandeserved their victory. They were ahead from day one," he said.

Younis played a solid innings apart from a difficult caught and bowledchance low down to Shaun Pollock when he had five, while Akmal batted aggressively.

Akmal's first three boundaries, all off Pollock, flew off edges through theslips cordons. Two went between second slip and gully. When Smith moved thegully fielder to third slip, Akmal edged the ball where gully had been.

"That was very frustrating but these things happen in cricket,"said Smith.

"Once he got to 25 or 30 he played brilliantly. They needed someone totake the game by the scruff of the neck and he did that," he said.

Akmal hurried to his half-century off 61 balls with five more fours. Whathad been a tense contest ended shortly before tea with a flurry of strokes.

South African hopes were raised when Pakistan, needing 191 to win, werethree down with only 48 runs scored.

Younis and Mohammad Yousuf put on 39 before Pakistan had another wobble whenYousuf was caught at gully off Shaun Pollock for 18 and Inzamam was leg beforefor one when he missed a pull against Ntini.

Smith said South Africafaced a selection dilemma with the series at stake in the final match. Headmitted he had hoped his team would wrap up the series in Port Elizabeth sokey bowlers Makhaya Ntini and Shaun Pollock could be rested ahead of afive-match one-day series against Pakistan, which will be followed by the WorldCup in the West Indies.

"It's a massive call to go into a Test match without both ofthem," said Smith.

 "But they have been giving theirall and there is not a lot left in the tank for them. We need to discuss thesethings and sit down with them and see what they can do. The big worry now is injury.If they get a big injury now it will be costly,"  he said.

Smith said the third Test was "huge" but admitted that theprospect of the World Cup changed the team's thinking.

"If the World Cup wasn't there, there would be no talk of resting guys.We want to win the Test series but we want to win the one-day series becauseyou're really hoping to have your World Cup squad together and performingwell," he said.

"We've got five (one-day) games before the World Cup for preparation sowe've got to look at that as the most important," he said.