Pakistan vs. West Indies: Devendra Bishoo, Kemar Roach and Dwayne Bravo - 4th ODI Recap – Part 2
While Mohammed Hafeez and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shafiq-c89281 were the stars of an otherwise ineffective Pakistan batting performance, the West Indian bowlers showed great character and resolve.
After taking the early wicket the West Indians did struggle as Hafeez and Shafiq frustrated the bowlers, yet the home side came back with a vengeance in the last 10 overs of the first innings that restricted Pakistan to a 248 run total when it could have
been so much more.
Devendra Bishoo’s game changing three wicket haul
West Indies’ bowler Devendra Bishoo has been the star for his side in the bowling department in the One Day International series against Pakistan so far. Taking a total of 10 wickets in the four matches, Bishoo is the leading wicket taker in the tour, leading
Pakistan’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839 by a margin of three wickets.
Bishoo was in devastating form in the fourth match, taking three crucial wickets. The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 in the 44th over.
Bowling a peach of a delivery, Bishoo beat Misbah all ends up and had the batsman heading back to the pavilion after having added only five runs to the scoreboard. It was Bishoo’s first wicket of the match and left the Pakistan lower batting order exposed.
Spinning the ball away from danger-man Mohammed Hafeez and on to the middle and leg stump, Bishoo took his second and perhaps his team’s most crucial wicket of the match. The wicket came in the second over after the dismissal of Misbah, just seven deliveries
earlier.
Bishoo was at it again just three deliveries later, when Hammad Azam fell. The West Indian bowler’s burst literally turned the match on its head, as Pakistan found themselves on the back foot.
Finishing with figures of 10 overs bowled for 37 runs having taken three wickets, Bishoo’s contribution was a major factor in the outcome of the match.
Yet to give Devendra all the credit would be unfair as he was assisted in the late fight back by Kemar Roach and Dwyane Bravo.
The pair took two wickets each in their respective 10 over bowling restriction and were just as effective as Bishoo in the latter overs of the innings, despite taking a wicket less.
Roach was responsible for taking the early wicket of Pakistan’s in-form batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ahmed-Shehzad-c42359 in the fifth over, but later struggled against the pair of Mohammed Hafeez and Asad Shafiq. To be fair the rest of the West Indian bowlers suffered the same until
the 39th over.
Roach had to wait until the 41st over before he could make another contribution, but when it came it was a big one. Tempting Pakistan skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 into a typical rash shot, Roach sent him on his way after Rampaul took the catch on its
way down.
The wicket kept the momentum with the West Indian side, as the bowlers began turning the screws.
Bowling from the other end, Dwayne Bravo was the catalyst that began the opposition batting collapse. Taking the wicket of Asad Shafiq in the 39th over, Bravo had broken the 153 run partnership that had the Windies on the back foot for so much
of the match.
He followed it up by dismissing a dangerous looking http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tanvir-Ahmed-c92718 in the last over as the West Indian bowlers completed a hard fought turn around, and gave their batsmen a fighting chance to win their first ODI of the series.
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