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Monday, February 17, 2025

Seales expects spinners to dominate first Test

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Sport Desk
31 days ago
20250118
Jayden Seales grabbed three wickets on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan.

Jayden Seales grabbed three wickets on the opening day of the first Test against Pakistan.

MUL­TAN, Pak­istan – De­spite star­ring on the open­ing day of the first Test against Pak­istan, pac­er Jay­den Seales says he ex­pects spin bowlers to play a ma­jor role on the re­main­ing four days.

Seales, the lone fast bowler in the West In­dies’ play­ing XI, took three ear­ly wick­ets, in­clud­ing the prized scalp of Babar Azam to set­back the home side ear­ly on.

Gu­dakesh Motie, who be­came the first West In­di­an spin­ner to open the bowl­ing in the first in­nings of a Test match took the on­ly oth­er wick­et to fall, while fel­low spin­ners Kevin Sin­clair and Jomel War­ri­can went wick­et­less.

How­ev­er, speak­ing to re­porters at the end of day one, Seale said he be­lieved the spin­ners would fea­ture promi­nent­ly in the re­main­ing four days.

“I think that as a bowl­ing unit we did re­al­ly well so it’s just to back it up again to­mor­row (Sat­ur­day).

“The toss was im­por­tant be­cause of the way the pitch looked, but say­ing that, I think go­ing for­ward in the game the spin­ners will come in­to the game a lot more,” Seales said.

“It may re­verse swing at some point, but I still think that the spin­ners may dom­i­nate this game mov­ing for­ward.”

Speak­ing on his per­for­mance, Seales said while the pitch was suit­ed for spin­ners, he re­alised there was al­so some­thing for the fast bowlers ear­ly on.

“We saw from the train­ing ses­sion that the ball did a lit­tle bit when it was new, so it was for me to try and get the best out of the new ball and put the ball in the right ar­eas, and with the cold con­di­tions this af­ter­noon it did a bit and it worked out for us,” Seales said.

“My plan was just to build pres­sure and as a fast bowler in Asian coun­tries, you tend to want to make a big im­pact and you want to do well for the team as it’s ob­vi­ous­ly dom­i­nat­ed by spin in these con­di­tions, so as a fast bowler I al­ways want to get a wick­et or be in the game and it so hap­pened I got the wick­ets for the team to­day.”

CMC


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