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It's seems as if he swings it too much, lets hope he has some luck on his side for a change.
Why have we dropped Sohail Khan.
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Why have we dropped Sohail Khan.
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Misbah thanks team for 'special gift'
Yasir Shah's four wickets late on day four helped Pakistan gallop towards a win © AFP
If you had glanced at the weather forecast for Kingston last Friday, you might have been forgiven for wondering if the city had any business hosting a Test match. There was rain expected across all five days, with dry spells in between. When Misbah-ul-Haq looked at it, he knew there was only one plausible path to victory, which his team achieved shortly after lunch on the fifth day.
Misbah himself played no small part. Having contributed 99 not out to stretch the first-innings lead, which eventually proved decisive, he came out to biff two successive sixes to seal the game. Soon after, Misbah said the thought of this being his final series hadn't prevented him from playing without having fun.
Holder disappointed with batting show
Jason Holder, the West Indies captain, felt losing four wickets in the first session on the opening day didn't do them any favours for the rest of the Test.
"We didn't get enough runs in the first innings. Never really got a partnership going. Credit must go to Shane Dowrich and Roston Chase, but unfortunately we couldn't get in excess of 300 runs, which we needed to do.
"Yasir Shah did bowl well in the second innings but we could have batted a lot better. From the position we were in last evening, if was always going to be difficult to come out on the fifth day and try to survive Yasir."
"If you're not enjoying yourself, then there's no point of playing. I'm not the kind of person who would linger on if I wasn't having fun," he said. "These wins are special, and this is one more Test match that the team has given to me as a gift."
While the batsmen's role in giving a first-innings cushion can't be overstated, it was the bowlers who ensured victory was possible despite losing almost all of the second day to rain. "With tricky weather, the idea was to win the toss and bowl first," he said. "We just had one chance to get them out quickly and then play one good innings. Otherwise it wasn't going to be possible.
"We knew that it was going to be tough batting on the fifth day. I think the bowlers did very well. In the first innings (Mohammad) Amir, especially, his spell was crucial. In the second innings, again Amir and especially Yasir's spell was incredible. Getting six wickets this morning in no time was the game changer."
The one worry Pakistan could have is that going in with just one spin bowler risks overworking the faster bowlers. This concern, however, did not manifest itself during the game, with West Indies lasting just 147.4 overs across both innings.
With 19-year old Shadab Khan, who impressed during the limited-overs leg of the series, waiting in the wings, Misbah admitted that playing a second legspinner was a possibility, but said a call would only be taken after assessing the conditions.
"Our combination will depend on the conditions we get, and especially how the pitch looks before the Test match," he said. "This pitch had a lot of moisture and that is why we opted to bowl first and go with three seamers. With our combination, it's difficult, it's difficult to sneak in the fifth bowler, especially since we have six specialist batsmen, so having three fast bowlers and two spinners becomes tricky."
Mohammad Abbas bends his back, West Indies v Pakistan,
Yasir Shah's four wickets late on day four helped Pakistan gallop towards a win © AFP
If you had glanced at the weather forecast for Kingston last Friday, you might have been forgiven for wondering if the city had any business hosting a Test match. There was rain expected across all five days, with dry spells in between. When Misbah-ul-Haq looked at it, he knew there was only one plausible path to victory, which his team achieved shortly after lunch on the fifth day.
Misbah himself played no small part. Having contributed 99 not out to stretch the first-innings lead, which eventually proved decisive, he came out to biff two successive sixes to seal the game. Soon after, Misbah said the thought of this being his final series hadn't prevented him from playing without having fun.
Holder disappointed with batting show
Jason Holder, the West Indies captain, felt losing four wickets in the first session on the opening day didn't do them any favours for the rest of the Test.
"We didn't get enough runs in the first innings. Never really got a partnership going. Credit must go to Shane Dowrich and Roston Chase, but unfortunately we couldn't get in excess of 300 runs, which we needed to do.
"Yasir Shah did bowl well in the second innings but we could have batted a lot better. From the position we were in last evening, if was always going to be difficult to come out on the fifth day and try to survive Yasir."
"If you're not enjoying yourself, then there's no point of playing. I'm not the kind of person who would linger on if I wasn't having fun," he said. "These wins are special, and this is one more Test match that the team has given to me as a gift."
While the batsmen's role in giving a first-innings cushion can't be overstated, it was the bowlers who ensured victory was possible despite losing almost all of the second day to rain. "With tricky weather, the idea was to win the toss and bowl first," he said. "We just had one chance to get them out quickly and then play one good innings. Otherwise it wasn't going to be possible.
"We knew that it was going to be tough batting on the fifth day. I think the bowlers did very well. In the first innings (Mohammad) Amir, especially, his spell was crucial. In the second innings, again Amir and especially Yasir's spell was incredible. Getting six wickets this morning in no time was the game changer."
The one worry Pakistan could have is that going in with just one spin bowler risks overworking the faster bowlers. This concern, however, did not manifest itself during the game, with West Indies lasting just 147.4 overs across both innings.
With 19-year old Shadab Khan, who impressed during the limited-overs leg of the series, waiting in the wings, Misbah admitted that playing a second legspinner was a possibility, but said a call would only be taken after assessing the conditions.
"Our combination will depend on the conditions we get, and especially how the pitch looks before the Test match," he said. "This pitch had a lot of moisture and that is why we opted to bowl first and go with three seamers. With our combination, it's difficult, it's difficult to sneak in the fifth bowler, especially since we have six specialist batsmen, so having three fast bowlers and two spinners becomes tricky."
Mohammad Abbas bends his back, West Indies v Pakistan,
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It's a mystery to me. He performed well in England, and it has to be his fitness level.
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His out swing is unmatched, plus he seems to be getting wickets. As per the media our coach doesn't like Sohail Khan.
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West Indies v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Bridgetown,1st dayApril 30, 2017
West Indies bat, Shadab makes Test debut
Toss West Indies chose to bat v Pakistan
West Indies 21/2 (9.4 ov)
Pakistan
Eighteen-year-old legspinner Shadab Khan replaced Wahab Riaz © AFP
West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test against Pakistan. In sunny conditions in Bridgetown that looked ideal for batting, captain Jason Holder made what looked a straightforward decision. "We need to take our chances, and remember that the series is very much alive," Holder said. Despite some concerns about the inexperience of their batting line-up, West Indies went into the game unchanged, meaning batsman Jermaine Blackwood was left out.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq agreed with Holder's assessment of the pitch saying it "definitely looks a bat-first wicket." In a move that Misbah had hinted at after the previous Test, Pakistan went into the game with two spinners, with legspinner Shadab Khan making his debut at the expense of Wahab Riaz. "There's no grass on the pitch and we expect the pitch to turn later in the game," Misbah said.
Pakistan can seal a first-ever Test series win in the Caribbean with victory in this game, with the visitors leading the series 1-0.
West Indies: Kieran Powell, 2 Kraigg Brathwaite, 3 Shimron Hetmyer, 4 Shai Hope (wk), 5 Roston Chase, 6 Vishaul Singh, 7 Shane Dowrich, 8 Jason Holder (capt), 9 Devendra Bishoo, 10 Alzarri Joseph, 11 Shannon Gabriel
Pakistan: Azhar Ali, 2 Ahmed Shehzad, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Younis Khan, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Asad Shafiq, 7 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 8 Mohammad Abbas, 9 Mohammad Amir, 10 Shadab Khan, 11 Yasir Shah
West Indies bat, Shadab makes Test debut
Toss West Indies chose to bat v Pakistan
West Indies 21/2 (9.4 ov)
Pakistan
Eighteen-year-old legspinner Shadab Khan replaced Wahab Riaz © AFP
West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first in the second Test against Pakistan. In sunny conditions in Bridgetown that looked ideal for batting, captain Jason Holder made what looked a straightforward decision. "We need to take our chances, and remember that the series is very much alive," Holder said. Despite some concerns about the inexperience of their batting line-up, West Indies went into the game unchanged, meaning batsman Jermaine Blackwood was left out.
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq agreed with Holder's assessment of the pitch saying it "definitely looks a bat-first wicket." In a move that Misbah had hinted at after the previous Test, Pakistan went into the game with two spinners, with legspinner Shadab Khan making his debut at the expense of Wahab Riaz. "There's no grass on the pitch and we expect the pitch to turn later in the game," Misbah said.
Pakistan can seal a first-ever Test series win in the Caribbean with victory in this game, with the visitors leading the series 1-0.
West Indies: Kieran Powell, 2 Kraigg Brathwaite, 3 Shimron Hetmyer, 4 Shai Hope (wk), 5 Roston Chase, 6 Vishaul Singh, 7 Shane Dowrich, 8 Jason Holder (capt), 9 Devendra Bishoo, 10 Alzarri Joseph, 11 Shannon Gabriel
Pakistan: Azhar Ali, 2 Ahmed Shehzad, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Younis Khan, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Asad Shafiq, 7 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 8 Mohammad Abbas, 9 Mohammad Amir, 10 Shadab Khan, 11 Yasir Shah
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Pakistan were helped by Younis Khan's agility and reflexes in the slip cordon,
West Indies 237/6 (77.0 over)
Roston Chase (rhb.............).... 107
Jason Holder (rhb..............)..... 34
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Nice to see Yasir Shah , find some form. Has potential to be like Shane needs to be more agressive
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West Indies v Pakistan, 2nd Test, Bridgetown, 2nd dayMay 1, 2017
Pakistan comfortable after WI fall for 312
Pakistan 36 for 0 (Azhar 16*, Shehzad 16*) trail West Indies 312 (Chase 131, Holder 58, Abbas 4-56, Amir 3-65) by 276 runs
Alzarri Joseph was the last man out for West Indies, bowled off a full toss © AFP
It appeared that for Pakistan the panacea for all possible ailments - be it a cold, high fever, or a seventh-wicket West Indian partnership - was a good night's rest. After trying everything to break through the defences of Roston Chase and Jason Holder on Sunday, they dismissed both batsmen within nine deliveries on Monday to take a firm grip over the Bridgetown Test.
West Indies were bowled out, adding only 26 runs to their overnight 286. Ahmed Shehzad and Azhar Ali batted out the 14 overs until lunch. Everything was going to plan again for the tourists.
The day began with a couple of wickets that were mirror images of each other. Holder attempted leave when a shot should have been played, and Chase attempted shot when the ball was better off being left. But the effect of their dismissals was the same; it wrenched all the momentum the home side had built up over a painstaking 132-run partnership, putting them back to the place they are so dreadfully familiar with: square one.
A breezy partnership between Alzarri Joseph and Devendra Bishoo ensured the West Indies made it past 300 but the optimism with which they had begun the day had long since evaporated. Mohammad Abbas - the most successful bowler today - got rid of Bishoo soon after. Yasir Shah cleaned up Joseph next over, and West Indies found themselves shot out for 312.
Pakistan's openers, who were disappointing in Jamaica, were comfortable against a new ball that neither swung through the air nor seamed off the pitch. Shehzad was given a life on 3 when he scooped a catch off Shannon Gabriel's bowling to mid-on, but the fielder Vishaul Singh was unable to convert it.
With the fast bowlers having no luck, West Indies turned to Chase again and he was able to get his offbreaks to spit and snarl out of the footmarks outside the right-hander's off stump. Even so, they did not bring a wicket, and West Indies walked off for lunch with almost no positives from the morning's play. They might be served the same food, but the Pakistanis are sure to enjoy it more.
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West Indies 312
Pakistan 46/0 (18.0 over)
Mohammad Abbas finished with 4 for 56 in his second game, West Indies v Pakistan
Pakistan comfortable after WI fall for 312
Pakistan 36 for 0 (Azhar 16*, Shehzad 16*) trail West Indies 312 (Chase 131, Holder 58, Abbas 4-56, Amir 3-65) by 276 runs
Alzarri Joseph was the last man out for West Indies, bowled off a full toss © AFP
It appeared that for Pakistan the panacea for all possible ailments - be it a cold, high fever, or a seventh-wicket West Indian partnership - was a good night's rest. After trying everything to break through the defences of Roston Chase and Jason Holder on Sunday, they dismissed both batsmen within nine deliveries on Monday to take a firm grip over the Bridgetown Test.
West Indies were bowled out, adding only 26 runs to their overnight 286. Ahmed Shehzad and Azhar Ali batted out the 14 overs until lunch. Everything was going to plan again for the tourists.
The day began with a couple of wickets that were mirror images of each other. Holder attempted leave when a shot should have been played, and Chase attempted shot when the ball was better off being left. But the effect of their dismissals was the same; it wrenched all the momentum the home side had built up over a painstaking 132-run partnership, putting them back to the place they are so dreadfully familiar with: square one.
A breezy partnership between Alzarri Joseph and Devendra Bishoo ensured the West Indies made it past 300 but the optimism with which they had begun the day had long since evaporated. Mohammad Abbas - the most successful bowler today - got rid of Bishoo soon after. Yasir Shah cleaned up Joseph next over, and West Indies found themselves shot out for 312.
Pakistan's openers, who were disappointing in Jamaica, were comfortable against a new ball that neither swung through the air nor seamed off the pitch. Shehzad was given a life on 3 when he scooped a catch off Shannon Gabriel's bowling to mid-on, but the fielder Vishaul Singh was unable to convert it.
With the fast bowlers having no luck, West Indies turned to Chase again and he was able to get his offbreaks to spit and snarl out of the footmarks outside the right-hander's off stump. Even so, they did not bring a wicket, and West Indies walked off for lunch with almost no positives from the morning's play. They might be served the same food, but the Pakistanis are sure to enjoy it more.
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West Indies 312
Pakistan 46/0 (18.0 over)
Mohammad Abbas finished with 4 for 56 in his second game, West Indies v Pakistan
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