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Pakistan tour of West Indies 2017

Pakistan 322/5 (109.0 over)

Pakistan lead by 36 runs with 5 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

Younis went to tea yesterday 9999 runs.
Misbah goes to lunch on 4998 runs.
Milestones galore. Excellent session for Pakistan who are building a handy lead. West Indies have been lacklustre apart form the new-ball spell by Shannon Gabriel. If Pakistan bat beyond tea, that lead will be significant. Join us again in half an hour. Hassan: "Misbah Muahahaha, trolling everyone."



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Chase to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, finishes the session with a six! Of course he does. Only Misbah would play for lunch this way. It's a floated up full ball and Misbah dismissively heaves it over deep midwicket. You gotta love him


Misbah-ul-Haq ducks a bouncer,



Sarfraz Ahmed dances down to swing the ball away to leg,
 
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WI 93/4 in their 2nd innings and still 28 runs behind. can Pakistan pull off an improbable victory. depends on how Yasir and Amir bowl on the 5th day. WI bat upto no 9, so lots of work to do still.
 
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Yasir, Amir, Shadab and Hassan Ali will be a formidable bowling unit.
 
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WI 93/4 in their 2nd innings and still 28 runs behind. can Pakistan pull off an improbable victory. depends on how Yasir and Amir bowl on the 5th day. WI bat upto no 9, so lots of work to do still.
WI middle and lower order seem in good batting forms but Pakistan should push hard for win..sadly rain wasted one day
 
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West Indies 93/4

    • D Bishoo............0... (14b 0x4 0x6)
    • VA Singh............0... (0b 0x4 0x6)
    • Mohammad Amir....................9-2-11-0
    • Yasir Shah..............................9-0-33-4


As Pakistan and the rest of the cricketing fraternity gears up to say goodbye to two legends - Misbah and Younis - we pick out 15 memorable moments from their career. Share your lasting memory of these two legends with us. I'll try and feature as many as possible through the course of the build-up and during play.

Shaafi: "Hey Shashank! Shaafi here from Sweden, cheering Pakistan to make the kill in this test! Thanks for the excellent commentary. While I will definitely miss Misbah's cool head on the field and his poker-faced press conferences, I'm looking forward to his insightful analyses as a commentator/panelist. He already made a few appearances on cricket shows in past years so I'm guessing and hoping that he will continue that line of work! Thanks! Shaafi "

9.00am.............. Conditions clear for now. As things stand, play will start as scheduled in 30 minutes.

Some overnight news especially if you're joining us from Pakistan: Shannon Gabriel has been fined 50% of his match fee and handed three demerit points after an incident involving Sarfraz Ahmed on day four. He deliberately made contact with Sarfraz at the non-striker's end when collecting his cap from umpire Richard Illingworth last evening.


Yasir Shah claimed four wickets during the evening session, West Indies v Pakistan,
 
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Champions Trophy Squad
1st comments
1. Batting and this is one a good day, has the ability to score 250 to 275 runs. No power hitters. Stuck in 90s mode.
2. Bowling will give up 300 runs every time.
3. Fielding remains a problem area.
4. Prediction : quick exit.
 
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Misbah was batting. With new comer at 11 as he is opener blows our his farewell 100 out on 99 stupid misbah
 
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Yasir takes six, Pakistan need 16 to win

West Indies 286 & 152
Pakistan 407 & 13/2 (6.0
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Pakistan require another 19 runs with 8 wickets remaining

Pakistan RR 2.16

Min overs remaining 65


Yasir Shah celebrates his ninth Test five-for, West Indies v Pakistan, 1st Test, Jamaica, 5th day,


There seems to be some confusion on whether there will be lunch taken or not. And they have decided to take the break. It seems initially as though the umpires ask the batsmen if they want to take the 15-minute extension. But it seems like it is the umpires' decision to break for lunch. Misbah-ul-Haq seems a bit surprised at the call. This is a bit odd but that is what it is. To recap the session, West Indies lost their last six wickets for the addition of 59 runs on the fifth morning. Pakistan have lost both their openers, one to a loose shot and the other to an inside edge, but are well on course. They still require 19 to take a 1-0 lead. Pretty eventful first session, should have ended with a win, but we will have to wait for a bit for that moment.
 
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Pakistan has the ability to be a top test team, we will have to rebuild after younis and misbah retire but we should be ok

this us because test cricket is still about traditional cricket skills, batsmanship, bowling etc where we do ok


our shorter form cricket however is horrendous, stuck in the past, a 90s brand of cricket that won't win us many tournaments
 
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West Indies 286 & 152
Pakistan 407 & 36/3 (10.5 over)


Pakistan won by 7 wickets

Bishoo to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, swung across to the leg side to complete the formalities! No time wasted. Consecutive sixes to finish this off. Tossed up again, Misbah down on one knee as he fetches the slog sweep from outside off. Handshakes all around. Pakistan up 1-0 in the three-match series
 
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This is the best all round test team to come out of the subcontinent for the last 20 years

Misbah ha a superb record as Captain
 
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Pacers, Yasir spur Pakistan to victory

BY DANYAL RASOOL

Pakistan 407 (Misbah 99, Babar 72, Younis 58, Joseph 3-71, Gabriel 3-92) and 36 for 3 beat West Indies 286 (Chase 63, Holder 57*, Dowrich 56, Amir 6-44) and 152 (Powell 49, Yasir 6-63) by seven wickets

Pakistan took a giant stride towards winning their first-ever Test series in the Caribbean, after an efficient bowling performance helped ease to seven-wicket win in Kingston. After Yasir Shah's six-for in the second innings left Pakistan chasing 32, Misbah-ul-Haq, who walked in at the fall of Younis Khan's wicket with the side needing eight, hit two successive sixes to complete the formalities.

Pakistan, emboldened by pushing West Indies to a tight corner last evening, spent the morning session closing in. They picked up six wickets for 59 as West Indies, resuming 93 for 4, were bowled out for 152.

Misbah was in no mood to experiment, getting his two best bowlers - Mohammad Amir and Yasir Shah - into the attack straight away. At perhaps no stage of the Test did a wicket look as imminent as it did in the first 10 overs. Amir tormented nightwatchman Devendra Bishoo with an unwavering line outside off stump. Or perhaps it was the other way round, as Bishoo kept missing, somehow managing to keep his outside edge from making contact with the ball.

Lesser bowlers - or indeed, Amir with lower levels of confidence - may have been frustrated, but Amir kept plugging away, and was duly rewarded. Vishaul Singh had just cut a rare poor Amir delivery away for four, but the bowler's comeback was destructive. He went slightly wide of the crease to the left-hander, the ball shaping in sharply from the moment it pitched, destination: top of off. Singh, who had seen Amir move the ball the other way all morning, shouldered arms, and was every bit as much a spectator as everyone else when the off stump cartwheeled.

Yasir was menacing from the other end, getting sharp turn off what was beginning to look like a standard day-five pitch, but it was Mohamamd Abbas who struck the next damaging blows with two wickets off three balls. Bishoo was the first to go, flashing at a short and wide delivery with Younis Khan pouching it in the slips. Two balls later, Shane Dowrich played across a straight ball that struck his pads in front of middle stump.

Wahab, who has had a slightly disappointing Test with the ball, then got into the act, removing Jason Holder, West Indies' highest scorer in the first innings. Yasir came in to clean up the lower order, just like he had the top order, removing Alzarri Joseph and Shannon Gabriel within four balls of each other to take six wickets this Test match, bolstering his ever-burgeoning credentials as a lethal second-innings bowler. This was the fifth time two Pakistan bowlers had taken six wickets in a Test innings of a Test, and the first since 2002.

The chase of 32 was one perhaps not even Pakistan could stuff up, but they can't be accused of not trying to make things interesting. Ahmed Shehzad tentatively pushed at the Gabriel delivery outside off stump for a simple catch to the wicketkeeper in the third over. Three balls later, Azhar Ali was making the walk back, having made a mess of trying to leave a ball from Joseph, only to somehow end up dragging it onto his stumps.

After lunch, Younis fell trying to work Bishoo to the leg side with the side two boundaries away. But Misbah needed just three balls to put West Indies out of their misery. Thirty six for three may not look too clinical, but, as is so often the case, their bowlers had left the batsmen ample room for error.

Danyal Rasool is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo.
 
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Congrats to Misbah and Younis for guiding Pakistan in a rather comfortable manner to victory
Wish the momentum will continue to next test match

10,000+ Runs for Younis Khan
5,000+ Runs for Misbah, Not out performance 99 Great show of his class

Younis / Misbah have lifted the bench mark for Fitness and performance still in super conditioning
 
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West Indies 286 & 152
Pakistan 407 & 36/3 (10.5 over)


Pakistan won by 7 wickets

Bishoo to Misbah-ul-Haq, SIX, swung across to the leg side to complete the formalities! No time wasted. Consecutive sixes to finish this off. Tossed up again, Misbah down on one knee as he fetches the slog sweep from outside off. Handshakes all around. Pakistan up 1-0 in the three-match series
Always good to win. Hope Amir has recaptured his former form, and Yasir needs to perform overseas consistently.
 
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Too bad West Indies went flat but Bowlers had done well , and Younis and Misbah have generally been star so far
 
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