By Oliver Brett BBC Sport Online

Pakistan's miserable score of 53 in Sharjah is the 19th lowest Test score of all time.

And just to rub salt into the wounds, it was even worse than the 59 they managed to scrape together in the first innings.

Before the second Test against Australia, Pakistan's lowest Test score was 62 against the same opponents in Perth in 1981-2.

But their performance is in part mitigated by the fact that they had a very inexperienced top order.

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Australia, meanwhile, have one of the finest bowling attacks to have ever graced the game, and that is despite missing Jason Gillespie with injury for this match.

This was only the third Test to be staged at Sharjah - the previous lowest score being 171 recorded by the West Indies in February this year.

Here, BBC Sport Online looks at the five other sub-60 scores to have been recorded in the last 40 years.

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India 42 all out v England at Lord's, 1974

England took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series when India were thrashed by an innings and 285 runs.

India were forced to follow on after being dismissed for 302, 326 runs fewer than England's mammoth score.

Chris Old took five for 21 in eight overs and Geoff Arnold took four wickets with the top five batsmen all recording single figures.

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England 46 all out v West Indies at Trinidad, 1993/4

Ambrose dismissing Atherton first ball

After fine bowling from Andy Caddick, England needed just 194 to win but were immediately on the back foot when Curtly Ambrose trapped Mike Atherton lbw first ball of the innings.

The writing was on the wall, and Ambrose finished with six for 24 in 10 brilliant overs to go with first innings figures of five for 60. Only Alec Stewart, with 18, reached double figures.

Courtney Walsh weighed in with the other three wickets and Atherton, on his first tour as England captain, had plenty to ponder.

West Indies 51 all out v Australia at Trinidad, 1998/9

The opening Test in the four-match series went decisively the way of the Aussies when the West Indies fell hopelessly short of a target of 364.

The innings was all over in 19.1 overs with Glenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie doing all the damage between them, except for the run out of Merv Dillon.

At one point the score was 16 for five, but Ridley Jacobs, with 19, ensured that New Zealand's record all-time low of 26 all out (recorded back in 1954/5) was at least surpassed.

West Indies 53 all out v Pakistan at Faisalabad, 1986/7

Qadir bamboozled the Windies' batsmen

The West Indies faced a gettable victory target of 240 when they went out to bat in the second innings against Imran Khan and Abdul Qadir.

But the the right-arm quick and the leg-spinner were in irresistible form, taking all 10 wickets between them.

Qadir, who replaced Wasim Akram in the eighth over, took six for 16, including Richie Richardson (14), Larry Gomes (2) and Viv Richards for a two-ball duck.

West Indies 54 all out v England at Lord's, 2000

One of England's high points in recent years, this was the third chapter in an extraordinary Test.

The tourists had hit 267 in the first innings before Walsh and Ambrose tore through England to dismiss them for just 134 on a helpful wicket.

Some sharp words from acting captain Alec Stewart got the home side back in the match when Caddick (five for 16), plus Darren Gough and Dominic Cork produced some of the best bowling of their careers.

England ultimately needed 188 to win, and got there after Gough and Cork's memorable ninth-wicket partnership of 31 in a memorable Test that swung several ways before the finish.