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The West Indies trail Pakistan by 215 runs after the opening day of their Test match at Sabina Park in Kingston yesterday.
The Windies bowlers did their job admirably to restrict Pakistan to 217 runs, however, their batting proved to be the Achilles heel once again, going in at stumps at 2/2.
Captain Kraigg Brathwaite is not out on one, and Roston Chase is yet to score after negotiating a hattrick ball.
Opener Kieran Powell faced just six balls before he edged a Mohammad Abbas delivery to slip for a duck. On the next ball, home town boy Nkrumah Bonner was adjudged lbw to Abbas, also for a duck, to leave the home side in trouble.
When bad light stopped play, as rain did earlier, it was a gloomy-looking dressing room for the West Indies, who face a daunting task getting themselves back into the contest today.
After winning the toss, the decision by Kraigg Brathwaite to insert the opposition looked to be the right one as Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales accounted for the Pakistan openers with just 21 runs on the board.
Early rain brought the players off the field in the first session, however, the West Indies bowlers continued to hit their straps, slowing the momentum of the experienced duo of Azar Ali and captain Babar Azam, who, despite the circumstance, managed to add 47 runs for the third wicket.
Seales and Roach then combined to remove them to leave the Pakistanis in a spot of bother at 68 for four, but Fawad Alam, Mohammad Rizwan, and Faheem Ashraf dug in to spruce up the Pakistani scoring.
Alam and Rizwan added 33 runs for the fifth wicket before Jason Holder picked up his second wicket when he had him caught for 23.
Alam and Asraf then applied the pressure with a counter-attacking partnership that yielded a valuable 85 runs to push the Pakistani score close to the 200-run mark.
It took a brilliant run-out from Roston Chase to break the partnership as Ashraf fell for a well-played 44.
Holder then picked up the last two wickets, including that of Alam for 56, which included six fours off 117 balls.
Holder finished with three wickets for 26 runs, Seales bagged a career-best three for 70, and Roach ended with two wickets for 47 runs.
For Holder, it was a good outing with the ball on a tricky first-day wicket.
“The wicket was a lot slower than I expected, and we had to be a little bit fuller and make use of the movement that we got,” he said. “I wanted to make the batsmen play as much as possible, and I think I made them do that. [It was] disciplined bowling from all, and we would take bowling out the opposition for 217 any day.”
Day-two bowls off this morning at 10.
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SCOREBOARD
PAKISTAN 1st innings
Imran Butt b Roach 11
Abid Ali c wkp Da Silva b Seales 9
Azhar Ali c Holder b Seales 17
*Babar Azam c wkp Da Silva b Roach 30
Fawad Alam b Holder 56
+Mohammad Rizwan c Chase b Holder 23
Faheem Ashraf run out 44
Yasir Shah c wkp Da Silva b Mayers 0
Hasan Ali c Mayers b Seales 14
Shaheen Shah Afridi not out 0
Mohammad Abbas c wkp Da Silva b Holder 0
Extras (b4, lb5, nb4) 13
TOTAL (all out, 70.3 overs) 217
Fall of wickets: 1-21 (Imran Butt), 2-21 (Abid Ali), 3-68 (Azhar Ali), 4-68 (Babar Azam), 5-101 (Mohammad Rizwan), 6-186 (Faheem Ashraf), 7-190 (Yasir Shah), 8-217 (Hasan Ali), 9-217 (Fawad Alam), 10-217 (Mohammad Abbas)
Bowling: Roach 16-4-47-2, Seales 16-3-70-3, Mayers 14-5-38-1, Holder 15.3-3-26-3, Chase 8-1-33-0, Warrican 1-0-4-0.
WEST INDIES 1st Innings
*K Brathwaite not out 1
K Powell c Imran Butt b Mohammad Abbas 0
N Bonner lbw b Mohammad Abbas 0
R Chase not out 0
Extras (b1) 1
TOTAL (2 wkts, 4 overs) 2
To bat: K Mayers, J Blackwood, +J Da Silva, J Holder, K Roach, J Seales, J Warrican
Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Powell), 2-1 (Bonner)
Bowling: Mohammad Abbas 2-2-0-2, Shaheen Shah Afridi 1-1-0-0, Yasir Shah 1-0-1-0.
Position: West Indies trail by 215 runs with eight wickets intact.
Toss: West Indies
Umpires: Joel Wilson, Gregory Brathwaite; TV – Leslie Reifer Jr.
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