JavaScript is disabled in your web browser or browser is too old to support JavaScript. Today almost all web pages contain JavaScript, a scripting programming language that runs on visitor's web browser. It makes web pages functional for specific purposes and if disabled for some reason, the content or the functionality of the web page can be limited or unavailable.

Monday, February 3, 2025

Wobbly Windies wilt

by

20161024

West In­di­an bat­ting again lacked qual­i­ty on the third day of the sec­ond Test of the Haier Cup se­ries against Pak­istan at the Sheikh Za­yed Crick­et Sta­di­um in Abu Dhabi yes­ter­day.

Re­ply­ing to Pak­istan's first in­nings score of 452, the West In­dies was bowled out for 224 un­der the wrist of legspin­ner Yasir Shah 4/86. The home team de­cid­ed against en­forc­ing the fol­low-on and rammed home the ad­van­tage by the close of play reach­ing 114 for one - an over­all lead of 342 go­ing in­to to­day's fourth day.

Af­ter their ex­cel­lent work with the ball, the Pak­ista­nis start­ed their sec­ond in­nings with a lead of 228 runs. The West In­dies con­tin­ued their strug­gles bat­ting sec­ond in Tests, as over their last six games, they have con­ced­ed 228 runs, 222, 128, 323, 280 and 360 on first in­nings.

Open­ers Sa­mi Aslam and Azhar Ali seemed de­ter­mined to bat the West In­dies com­plete­ly out the game, adding 93 runs for the first wick­et, al­though they were each giv­en out by the um­pires, on­ly to sur­vive on re­views. When Aslam was fi­nal­ly giv­en not out on 50, West In­dies re­viewed, and the de­ci­sion was over­turned. He faced 111 balls and struck five fours, be­fore he gave Shan­non Gabriel his sixth wick­et of the match.

Azhar Ali, the man who knocked an un­beat­en triple cen­tu­ry in the open­ing Test is still there un­beat­en on 52 that came of 102 balls with two fours.

West In­dies start­ed the morn­ing on 106 for four and Pak­istan was cel­e­brat­ing not long af­ter, as Jer­maine Black­wood drove away from his body to be caught be­hind for eight of Ra­hat Ali - giv­ing the pac­er his 50th Test wick­et. Night­watch­man De­ven­dra Bishoo de­fied the bowlers for a while bat­ting in­to the sec­ond hour of the morn­ing, be­fore So­hail Khan breached his de­fence. He made 20 and fell with the score at 144, hav­ing ne­go­ti­at­ed 66 balls.

Ros­ton Chase and Shai Hope stuck it out un­til lunch, tak­ing the West In­dies to 151 for six. The vis­i­tors added 45 runs for the loss of two wick­ets in the ses­sion.

Post lunch, Chase and Hope con­tin­ued to soak up the pres­sure, tak­ing the score to 169 be­fore the for­mer slashed at a good length ball from Yasir Shah and left for 22 of 80 de­liv­er­ies. Hope was the man well set and im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter dri­ving Shah beau­ti­ful­ly to the cov­er bound­ary, he was bowled next ball. No fault of his, he saw a half track­er from Shah and went on­to the back foot look­ing to pull him through mid wick­et, how­ev­er the ball kept low and he heard the dread­ed sound of tim­ber falling be­hind him. He made 11, trudg­ing off a for­lorn fig­ure, as he promised much more.

Skip­per Hold­er was un­beat­en on 31 as the West In­dies failed to beat the fol­low-on mark of 253. But it did not mat­ter in the end as Pak­istan opt­ed to bat a sec­ond time.

, get­ting an un­beat­en 31 but they fell short. Shah was well sup­port­ed by Ra­hat Ali (3/45) and So­hail (2/35).

Score­board

?West In­dies vs Pak­istan

Pak­istan 1st inns 452 all out

WI 1st inns (overnight 106/4)

L John­son lbw Ra­hat 12

D Bra­vo lbw Yasir 43

K Brath­waite run out 21

M Samuels c Aslam b Ra­hat 30

D Bishoo b So­hail Khan 20

J Black­wood c Sar­farz b Ra­hat 8

R Chase c Shafiq b Shah 22

S Hope b Shah 11

J Hold­er not out 31

M Cum­mins b Khan 3

S Gabriel c So­hail b Shah 13

Ex­tras 2b, 7lb, 1w 10

To­tal all out 223

Fall of wk­ts: 27, 65, 106, 106, 121, 144, 169, 178, 197, 223.

Bowl­ing: Ra­hat Ali 21-8-45-3, So­hail Khan 19-8-35-2, Zul­fiqar Babar 21-6-39-0, Asad Shafiq 1-0-2-0, Yasir Shah 28.4-6-86-4, M Nawaz 4-1-8-0.

Pak­istan 2nd inns

S Aslam c Hope b Gabriel 50

A Ali not out 52

A Shafiq not out 5

Ex­tras b4, lb1, nb2 7

To­tal for 1 wkt 114

Fall of wk­ts: 93.

Bowl­ing: S Gabriel 8-1-21-1 (2nb), M Cum­mins 3-0-5-0, K Brath­waite 13-2-27-0, D Bishoo 12-0-45-0, J Hold­er 3-0-11-0.


Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored