Moin could only resort to slowing the game in the hope the light would fail in time to save him. In his position I'd probably have done the same but I don't think I'd have then been cheeky enough to complain it was getting too dark for my fielders to see the ball.
The turning point on the final day was the wicket of Yousuf Youhana who has been the backbone of the Pakistan batting. When Craig White removed him just before lunch it lifted England in the same way that scoring a goal just before half-time lifts a football team.
Along with Ashley Giles, White has been one of the finds of the tour for England. He announced himself as a more than useful swing bowler against the West Indies last summer and has now produced the goods with the bat, too. He'll enjoy Christmas.
So will left-armer Giles who has learnt and grown as a bowler, and was again among the wickets yesterday. The big fella has always been steady and given his captain control, but in the last couple of matches he has also been varying his pace and line to good effect.
Cricket is all about confidence and momentum, and although Ian Salisbury hasn't got a lot of confidence in his bowling at the moment, it was his last wicket stand with Darren Gough that put that momentum behind England on the fourth afternoon.
If Pakistan had led by 40 or 50, instead of 17, with an extra hour's batting, they would have fancied getting far enough ahead to put England under pressure in the last two sessions. Salisbury's resistance left no time for Pakistan to force a win.
Looking back on the series, it's impossible to give enough credit to that opening stand of 134 between Mike Atherton and Marcus Trescothick on the first day in Lahore. Not only did it inform the Pakistanis we weren't a push over, it also gave the other batsmen the luxury of a long look at the opposition's spinners and an idea of ways to combat them.
Atherton was a rock throughout. I doubt those who criticised him for batting too slowly on Saturday will apologise but I trust they saw the boundaries that launched yesterday's run-chase. Like Geoff Boycott before him, he is a good judge of each situation and must have known his marathon innings was demoralising Pakistan.
I said before the series that winning in Pakistan would be right up there in terms of achievement with taking back the Ashes - and that should be England's next target. All right, let's not get carried away - but I don't think a drawn series with Australia would not be setting our sights too high next summer.
