Windies reconstruction frustrates Pakistan in initial Test
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Half-centuries by Roston Chase and Shane Dowrich engineered a West Indies reconstruction in reaching 244 for 7 during stumps opposite Pakistan on a opening day of a initial Test during Sabina Park on Friday.
Coming together immediately after lunch when opener Kieran Powell became Mohammad Amir’s third wicket with a innings in rags during 71 for five, Chase batted with certainty and fluency for a tip measure of 63.
His sixth-wicket partnership with Dowrich was value 118 runs, a wicketkeeper-batsman enhancing his repute with a discriminating 56, a span creation a hoax of a West Indies’ progressing struggles after they were put in to bat.
On a same belligerent where an dominant hundred in usually his second Test compare saved a West Indies from better opposite India a year earlier, Chase looked during palliate opposite all bowlers nonetheless his gusto for a rash offshoot resulted in a integrate of slight escapes.
Yet it was Yasir Shah who private both him and Dowrich off consecutive deliveries in a final session.
Made to demeanour typical by a pair’s certain play by a afternoon, a leg-spinner had a final giggle when he lured Chase into a lofted cadence and Wahab Riaz hold an superb locate using behind from mid-off roughly to a range rope.
Dowrich was afterwards totally cheated and bowled by a subsequent delivery.
At 189 for seven, Pakistan’s hopes of dismissing a West Indies on a opening day were revived, usually for captain Jason Holder (30 not out) and dilettante spinner Devendra Bishoo (23 not out) to perplex a visitors with an forward consecutive eighth-wicket mount of 55.
Earlier, Mohammad Abbas had a dream start to his Test career, carrying Kraigg Brathwaite held during second trip by Younis Khan though scoring with his second smoothness pity a new round with Amir.
It was an critical early breakthrough as a opener had done story in their final Test compare assembly with dominant scores of 142 and 60 that warranted a Caribbean side a five-wicket win in Sharjah final Nov during a finish of an differently miserable debate of a United Arab Emirates.
West Indies played dual debutants in a middle-order in a span of Guyanese left-handers Shimron Hetmyer and Vishaul Singh, and Pakistan pulpy a advantage even serve with Aamir claiming his initial wickets for 3 Test matches.
Maintaining a whinging accuracy, a left-arm quick bowler bowled both Hetmyer and Shai Hope, pinch a stumps with deliveries that angled in neatly off a good length.
Pakistan’s third seamer in their bowling armoury, Riaz, afterwards private Singh around a excellent diving locate by Azhar Ali during back square-leg to have a home side rickety during that indicate during 53 for four.
“I was struggling to pitch a white round (during a limited-over matches) though got things operative good today,” pronounced Amir about his bid on a day of 3 for 28 off 19 overs.
“(Bowling) manager Azhar Mahmood has been operative a lot with me and we got a results, though we have to keep operative tough to keep a West Indies down to a docile total.”
West Indies opted to replace Jermaine Blackwood from their final eleven to accommodate a debutants in a batting line-up, definition there was no Jamaican in a home side for a Test compare during Sabina Park for a initial time given 1997 when, incidentally, a opponents were also Pakistan.
Notwithstanding his considerable entrance to comparison general cricket during a limited-over leg of a tour, a visitors resisted a enticement to embody a uncapped Shadab Khan in their group as a second spinner in support of Shah, selecting instead to deliver 27-year-old Abbas to Test cricket.
This is a 50th Test between a dual nations and also a 50th Test compare to be played during Sabina Park given a really initial during a venue in 1930.-AFP
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