"I am very happy to reach this milestone of 8,000," the 35-year-old said.

"It is a good feeling and I want to continue adding more runs to my tally for my team until the 2007 World Cup."

Inzamam, retired hurt on 35 after being struck on the right wrist by fast bowler Steve Harmison on Wednesday, achieved the milestone when he reached 45 with a straight six off Udal.

Having made his Test debut against England at Birmingham in 1992, he became only the second Pakistani batsman after former captain Javed Miandad to join the 8,000-club.

Two years ago Inzamam, struggling for form, decided to retire from cricket but a century against Bangladesh and the chance to captain his country persuaded him to play on.

Since then he has become his country's most prolific centurion and fell just three runs shy of extending his record to 25 on Friday as his side turned the screw on England.

Inzamam was run out for 97 on the fourth day of the final Test, the seventh time he has been dismissed within 10 runs of a century in his 105 Tests.

But his innings gave him more than 1,000 runs in a calendar year and round off a fantastic series against England with earlier scores of 53, 72, 109 and 100 not out.

Inzamam was disappointed at missing out on a third hundred of the series but said the mix-up with Rana Naved that led to his run-out was part of the game.

"We were looking for quick runs and there was a misunderstanding and it is not the first time it has happened to me," he said.

Inzamam said he was happy that his side, 1-0 up and with a huge first innings lead, would be dictating terms to England on the final day of the series.

"Before the series started lot of people didn't believe we could beat England owing to the Ashes series hype," he said. "But we were always quietly confident we could do it as we had played two good series ourselves."

Inzamam admitted that bowling out England a second time on the Lahore pitch would not be easy as there was nothing in it for the spinners.

"We got a total of 636 on it so you can imagine how good it is for batting," he said.