Three compare series: Pakistan trounce West Indies in initial ODI
Azam’s rapid-fire 139-ball 120 helped Pakistan post a severe 284-9 in a compare reduced to 49 overs a side due to a 70-minute floodlight disaster during Sharjah Stadium in a UAE. PHOTO: AFP
SHARJAH: Babar Azam strike his lass century while spinner Mohammad Nawaz grabbed 4 wickets as Pakistan thrashed a West Indies by 111 runs on a Duckworth-Lewis process in a initial day-night general on Friday.
Azam’s rapid-fire 139-ball 120 helped Pakistan post a severe 284-9 in a compare reduced to 49 overs a side due to a 70-minute floodlight disaster during Sharjah Stadium in a UAE.
West Indies – set 287 to win – never got tighten and folded during 175 in 38.4 overs. Like in a Twenty20 matches, a West Indian batsmen had small idea opposite Pakistan’s spin bowling, with usually Marlon Samuels (46) and Johnson Charles (20) charity any resistance.
Nawaz steamed by a batting with total of 4-42 in his 10 overs, simply his best bowling total in his sixth one-day international.
Nawaz had Darren Bravo (12), Denesh Ramdin (eight), Kieron Pollard (nine) and Carlos Brathwaite (15) out in an satirical spell of spin bowling to stone a West Indies.
Samuels strike dual sixes and a 4 in his 59-ball quarrel though was finally bowled by quick bowler Wahab Riaz in a 34th over.
Sunil Narine (23) and Sulieman Benn (16 not out) combined 31 for a ninth wicket though it was too little, too late and middle pacer Hasan Ali finished a innings with total of 3-14.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 1st, 2016.
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