West Indies on top as Darren Sammy’s burst leaves Pakistan tottering on day four of first Test: Cricket News
WI 226 and 152, PAK 160
Pakistan is on the verge of conceding a 1-0 lead to the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 in the two matches test series as they lost three more wickets in a riveting morning session on day four of the first Test at the Providence in Guyana.
The three Pakistani batsmen were undone by a great display of bowling by Ravi Rampaul and Sammy. Rampaul got a ball to jag back a proverbial mile to send the solid looking overnight batsman Asad Shafiq’s middle stump tumbling.
The diminutive right-handed batsman scored 42 off 110 balls, his innings was studded with 6 fours however he fell with the score at 83, after the Pakistanis had added a mere 3 runs to their overnight score of 80/3.
Rocked by the early dismissal the visitors relied upon their captain Misbah Ul Haq and Umar Akmal to play them out of the woods. The right handed Misbah, who has had a dream run with the bat ever since he was named the captain last season, scored what has
been the only fifty of the match thus far.
His innings of 52 came off 162 balls and included 6 fours and a six, however with the score at 135 his opposite number Sammy got a ball to jag into the right hander sharply.
Misbah was beaten and hit on the pads, umpire Billy Bowden ruled him out LBW while the decision was not overturned on referral also. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Salman-c77287 who looked like a walking wicket on
the tour so far perished to another in-swinger.
The pair of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Umar-Akmal-c94595 took Pakistan to lunch with the visitors needing 66 runs more to win the gripping test, however the nature of the wicket and the fragility of the lower order gave the hosts the edge.
The match is set to finish in the next session, with the game delicately poised it is going to be an enthralling contest.
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