MULTAN, Pakistan — West Indies collapsed to 137 all out inside one session in opposition to Pakistan spinners Noman Ali and Sajid Khan as 19 wickets fell on Day 2 of the primary take a look at Saturday.
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Pakistan, which acquired bowled out for 230 within the first innings on a turning wicket, stretched its result in 202 and reached 109-3 with spinners claiming 17 of the 19 wickets to fall in a day.
Captain Shan Masood raised his eleventh take a look at half-century off 60 balls and gave Pakistan a transparent benefit earlier than he acquired run out late within the remaining session with Kamran Ghulam not out on 9.
Left-armer Ali grabbed 5-39 and off-spinner Khan baffled the highest 4 batters with 4-65 within the center session on the identical pitch the place the spin duo had picked up all 20 England wickets in a take a look at match final October.
Captain Kraigg Brathwaite was the one among the many high seven batters to breach the double figures as Khan and Ali bowled all however 14 deliveries earlier than West Indies’ innings folded in 25.2 overs.
West Indies was in disarray at 91-9, however an aggressive counterattacking partnership of 46 runs off 21 balls between Jomel Warrican and Jayden Seales took the guests past the 100-run mark.
It was the second-lowest take a look at innings, when it comes to balls, in opposition to Pakistan, which bowled out Sri Lanka for 73 in 24.5 overs at Kandy in 2006.
West Indies top-order batters had no clue the best way to fight the sharp turning deliveries of Khan, who grabbed 4 wickets in house of his first three overs with the brand new ball.
Khan dismissed Mikyle Louis and Keacy Carty off successive deliveries with the latter brilliantly snapped up within the slips by debutant Mohammad Hurraira.
Khan then had Brathwaite clear bowled after the West Indies skipper went for an formidable sweep in opposition to one other sharp spinning supply and Alick Athanaze provided a low return catch to the off-spinner because the vacationers slipped to 22-4 within the fifth over.
Ali then acquired into the act and edged Khan for a five-wicket haul when he clear bowled Gudakesh Motie off an inside edge as West Indies acquired bowled out earlier than tea.
Earlier, West Indies spinners additionally profited from favorable situations to bowl out Pakistan at stroke of lunch after the house staff resumed on 143-4.
Left-arm spinner Warrican picked up 3-69 and Kevin Sinclair accounted for the important wickets of Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan as Pakistan misplaced final six wickets for 43 runs.
Shakeel and Rizwan had prolonged their fifth-wicket stand to 141 earlier than Pakistan misplaced wickets in cluster within the latter half of first session.
On a wicket tailored for spinners, Shakeel and Rizwan had dominated the three West Indian spinners earlier than Sinclair broke the threatening stand quickly after the primary drinks break when he discovered the surface fringe of left-handed Shakeel’s bat.
Shakeel hit six boundaries in his 157-ball knock and had revived Pakistan innings with Rizwan after the house staff had slipped to 46-4 in opposition to quick bowler Seales’ triple strike on Day 1.
Pakistan then misplaced three extra wickets in house of 10 deliveries and slipped to 200-8 because the spinners extracted sharp flip with the odd ball getting low.
Rizwan, who hit 9 fours in simply over three hours keep on the wicket, missed the road of Sinclair’s full pitched supply whereas going for an extravagant reverse sweep and was out leg earlier than wicket.
Khan and Khurram Shahzad shared second greatest partnership of the innings after they contributed 25 runs for the ninth-wicket stand earlier than Warrican wrapped up the innings simply earlier than lunch by eradicating each batters in his successive overs.
Pakistan is at No. 8 and West Indies is at No. 9 on the WTC factors desk after performing under-par during the last one 12 months in checks. Australia and South Africa have already certified for June 11-15 WTC remaining at Lord’s.
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