Pakistan spinners send West Indies spinning on day one of Guyana Test: Cricket News
WI 209/9 90 overs
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s slow bowlers, as the tourists gained control of the first Test being played in Providence in Guyana. On a wicket which was slow in nature and offering turn to the slower bowlers. The Asians
reigned supreme with a fine display of attacking bowling through their three pronged spin attack comprising of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898.
Opening batsman Lendl Simmons, who had to spend nearly two hours in the pavilion after being hit by Wahab Riaz’s delivery, offered some resistance to the bowlers. He scored 49 before being baffled by Ajmal's delivery that caught him plumb in front
of the stumps.
The West Indians won the toss and opted to bat first on a wicket that was expected to deteriorate sharply as the match progresses. Opening batsman Devon http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Smith-c90598 was once again undone by his number one nemesis, Mohammad Hafeez, who after trapping him
lbw in four consecutive games this season, found one through his defences as the left hander looked clueless.
Darren Bravo gave good company to Simmons adding 56 runs for the second wicket in the company of the opener; however his resistance ended when a searing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839’s yorker caught him plumb too.
Simmons was shortly hit on the knee by a sharp Wahab’s delivery and after nearly 10 minutes treatment at the ground, the opener hobbled off to the pavilion.
The experienced duo of Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shiv Chanderpaul were separated on the eve of the tea-break, Sarwan was caught behind by debutant wicket keeper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Salman-c77287 after making 23 runs off 79 balls.
After tea it was all Pakistan, Ajmal started weaving his spell on the batsmen and was quickly rewarded by the scalps of Brendon Nash, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Carlton-Baugh-c49264, the obdurate Chanderpaul and Simmons. The West Indian batsmen were clueless against his ‘doosra’ and
were either trapped in front or in case of Chanderpaul had their stumps rattled.
Ajmal’s spin partners Rehman and Hafeez took 2 wickets each while Wahab Riaz accounted for one batsman on day one.
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