Insipid Pakistan blow away Providence Test with listless batting as West Indies lead the Test series 1-0
WI: 226 & 152 - PAK: 160 & 178 - WI win by 40 runs
Pakistan’s voodoo of having never won a test series in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 is going to afflict them for at least four more years as they surrendered tamely on the penultimate day of the first test at the Providence in Guyana. A see-saw battle until the lunch
interval turned decisively in the favour of the hosts immediately after the break as the Pakistan tail failed to wag, losing the last four wickets for only 18 runs.
Set a target of 219 runs on the Providence mine-field, the Pakistani batsmen capitulated on the fourth day after resuming their second innings at 80/3, the low-bounce wicket helped the two teams improve their own record of most lbws in a test match as the
tally for this game soared to a massive 20. This means that the exact half of 40 dismissals came this way, the mark easily beats the previous best of 17 at Port of Spain in the first test of the 1992-93 series.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asad-Shafiq-c46208 and Misbah Ul Haq to take them to calmer waters on the fourth day. The two had lifted the team from a precarious 2/3 on the third day, however, Pakistan’s hopes were dealt a severe blow with the demise of
Asad, whose middle stump was sent tumbling by Ravi Rampaul’s beauty.
Misbah posted the only fifty of the match, but soon after, he became the first victim of West Indian captain Darren Sammy, who was the architect of the win. Sammy had his opposite number lbw, and a mere two balls later debutant wicketkeeper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Salman-c77287,
met similar fate.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Gul-c94604 in quick succession after tea made the task extremely tough for him. Akmal did not play a rash shot however, Sammy was on a roll
and he won another lbw decision as Pakistan’s hopes perished.
It all ended in a comprehensive fashion as the much maligned West Indian captain, who was bowling at 75 miles per hour, crashed through Saeed Ajmal’s defence in what was a reminder of the great quicks of the past from the islands.
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