England's failure to get to grips with Pakistan's spinners sealed their defeat, captain Nasser Hussain admitted after his side's crushing eight-wicket defeat in the second one-day international.

Against high-quality displays of every type of spin from Shahid Afridi, Saqlain Mushtaq and Mushtaq Ahmed, England's batting disintegrated allowing the home side to cruise to victory with 5.2 overs to spare.

Reserve leg-spinner Afridi became Pakistan's main weapon in restricting England's total to 211 for nine as he captured career best figures of 5-40 but it was Mushtaq that started the ball rolling when he brought Alec Stewart's positive start to a dramatic end, prompting a collapse.

"We knew when we came out here we would be playing on turning wickets and it did today," explained Hussain.

"It's no surprise, that's the norm out here.

"It's not the end of the world what happened today, but obviously we've got to learn and learn quickly and the only way to do that is getting some time in the nets, practise and practise hard.

"I don't particularly blame the boys because they don't see an awful lot of spin apart from seeing Saqlain and Mushtaq at various times in the season, but on a turning wicket like that it was a contest and we didn't win it today."

"When you come to Asia you are going to come unstuck against spin every now and then," he stressed.

"We got bowled out by spin, but that's what's going to happen out here - spinners are going to bowl and they're going to bowl well. It's up to us to work hard and try and get better against it."

Pakistan captain Moin Khan exploited England's inexperience of spin to good effect and was delighted with the result.

"We played well and I'm glad we bounced back the way we did," he said.

"I always thought that spin would be our trump card - the pitch was always going to favour spin and we have world class spinners.

"England are slightly inexperienced against it, the instructions to our bowlers was to keep it tight and they crumbled because of the pressure they were under."

With the series squared, the outcome of the third and final ODI in Rawalpindi on Monday is now crucial.

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