Cricket: Retiring twin Misbah, Khan lead Pakistan opposite Windies
KINGSTON, Jamaica – West Indies and Pakistan get a three-Test array underway on Friday during Sabina Park in Jamaica with both teams struggling in a midst of severe transition periods.
Despite victories in both a T20 and One-Day International array progressing in a tour, a tourists have made adult as a distant some-more exposed outfit in a normal format of a game.
The home side, who sojourn mired in a reduce reaches of a general rankings, demeanour set to make serve alterations to their choice in a query for a unchanging winning formula.
Pakistan surfaced a Test rankings final Sep following their drawn array in England.
But a unemployment of 6 uninterrupted defeats, ironically instituted by a West Indies in Sharjah five-and-a-half months ago during a finish of an differently catastrophic debate for a Caribbean team, has seen them trip to fifth and increasing open vigour on Misbah ul Haq to step down as captain.
After many conjecture Misbah has announced that this array will be his final before timid from a general game.
And usually final week associate maestro Younis Khan, Pakistan’s many inclusive run-scorer in Test history, also suggested that a West Indies debate will be his final in inhabitant colours.
Khan goes into a compare wanting only 23 some-more runs to turn a initial Pakistani to assemble 10,000 runs in Tests, and while a miracle will be of measureless personal significance, of even larger regard to a visiting group is completing their first-ever Test array delight in a West Indies by a time a final Test concludes in Dominica in mid-May.
Sabina Park’s 50th Test given a initial was staged in 1930 opposite England is expected to be an intriguing event given Pakistan’s reduction than graceful arrangement in their sole warm-up compare forward of a array where they were outplayed in a drawn three-day tie by a West Indies Board President’s XI in a western Jamaican city of Trelawny.
Three of a deputy group who starred with a bat opposite a tourists – Kieran Powell and a uncapped span of Vishaul Singh and Shimron Hetmyer – were named in a West Indies patrol of 13 for a opening Test nonetheless it is expected that Hetmyer, captain of a winning group during final year’s Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh, and fast-medium bowler Miguel Cummins will be wanting from a final eleven.
Kraigg Brathwaite, a buttress during a tip of a batting sequence over a past 3 years, goes into a compare still basking in a heat of his ancestral bid in a Sharjah Test feat when his dominant innings of 142 and 60 guided a West Indies to their initial Test win over Pakistan divided from home in 26 years.
Notwithstanding his superb entrance to comparison general cricket during a limited-over leg of a tour, Pakistan’s Shadab Khan might not make his Test entrance alongside determined wrist-spinner Yasir Shah unless a representation looks intensely dry before a toss on Friday morning.
Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Aamir are set to spearhead their conflict though with Hasan Ali nursing an damage postulated in a warm-up match, there is conjecture that 27-year-old quick bowler Mohammad Abbas will acquire his initial Test top in support of a comparison men.
Teams (probable): West Indies – Jason Holder (capt), Kraigg Brathwaite, Kieran Powell, Shai Hope, Vishaul Singh, Jermaine Blackwood, Shane Dowrich, Roston Chase, Devendra Bishoo, Alzarri Joseph, Shannon Gabriel.
Pakistan – Misbah ul Haq (capt), Azhar Ali, Ahmed Shehzad, Babar Azam, Younis Khan, Asad Shafiq, Sarfraz Ahmed, Mohammad Aamir, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Abbas.-AFP
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