Younis becomes initial Pakistani to measure 10,000 Test run
KINGSTON: Younis Khan became a initial Pakistan actor to finish 10,000 Test runs as his group reached 201 for 4 in respond to a West Indies initial innings sum of 286 during stumps on a third day of a rain-affected initial Test during Sabina Park on Sunday.
Younis changed on from a painfully behind start to get to 58 while Babar Azam stroked 72 in winning a 131-run third-wicket partnership with a former captain to give a tourists a zenith into a final event of a day.
However, quick bowler Shannon Gabriel discharged both in a space of 3 deliveries to extent Pakistan’s swell and withdrawal captain Misbah-ul-Haq and Asad Shafiq to continue a workmanlike bid streamer into a fourth day.
Having reliable this array as a final before he retires from general cricket, 39-year-old Younis played with farfetched caring during a start of his innings. In contrast, Azam displayed most some-more charge and purpose nonetheless he once again fell brief of a lass Test century.
Possibly aware of his vicinity to a landmark when he started his innings 23 runs divided from a loving goal, Younis took 47 mins to get off a symbol while Azam attempted to keep a scoreboard ticking over during a other end.
Playing his initial Test in a Caribbean after blank a 2011 debate due to a genocide of his brother, a former captain eventually started to climb towards his 10,000th run, triggering a celebrations when he swept a smoothness from off-spinner Roston Chase in a initial over after tea to a behind square-leg range to turn usually a 13th actor altogether — and a oldest — in a story of a diversion to scale that summit.
“I suspicion about bowing out of general cricket 3 years ago though one of a motivating factors for me to stay was to get to 10 thousand runs,” Khan pronounced during a finish of a day.
“I am finished after a series, no matter how many runs we score, though we usually wish we have been means to make a useful grant as a actor and also assistance a younger ones to do as good as we have, or even better.”
Hailed as a intensity inheritor to Younis as a permanent passenger of a series 3 batting position, Azam enjoyed a impulse of fitness usually after lunch when West Indies captain Jason Holder unsuccessful to reason on to a caught-and-bowled possibility with a batsman on 12.
Yet usually as it looked as if their partnership would continue until a tighten of play, Gabriel pennyless through.
Younis untimely an off-drive to give to be held during extra-cover and turn a quick bowler’s 50th Test wicket. Then in his subsequent over a indeterminate Azam played on to hint serve celebrations among a West Indian players.
Earlier, Holder finished dominant on 57 after a behind start to another rain-affected day as Mohammad Amir finished his best Test innings total to hang adult a home side’s innings after they resumed during a overnight position of 278 for nine.
He bowled final male Gabriel to finish with 6 for 44, an bid that softened on his prior best of 6 for 84 opposite England during Lord’s in 2010.
Play started 90 mins after than scheduled due to a stability effects of heavy, torrential sleet on a damp outfield that reduced play to usually 55 mins on a second day.
Pakistan started their respond brightly with Azhar Ali looking meaningful before he chased a far-reaching smoothness from Alzarri Joseph to give a locate to wicketkeeper Shane Dowrich.
Ahmed Shehzad, personification his initial Test for roughly dual years, also non-stop brightly with a flurry of shots, including 5 bounds in 31 usually to be trapped leg-before on a behind feet by Holder.-AFP
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