Sajid, Noman, Abrar share every one of the 20 wickets as Pakistan go 1-0 up
Well, how do you sum that up? A madcap two sessions of cricket on the third day saw 17 wickets fall. Pakistan lost seven for 48, with Jomel Warrican registering the third-best figures for a visiting bowler in Pakistan. And yet, with half an hour to go for tea, Pakistan's spinners had wrapped up a 127-run victory, skittling West Indies out for 123 in 36.3 overs to go 1-0 up in the series. Sajid Khan and Abrar Ahmed were the chief architects, taking nine of West Indies' ten wickets as the visitors' challenge appeared to melt away along with the solidity of the playing strip.
West Indies had around 15 overs to look before lunch, and Pakistan pretty much made triumph protected in this time. The guests started with positive expectation, having understood that jabbing and pushing would waste their time. It saw them through the initial four overs, however as Sajid said yesterday, the procedure was to go after with the ball and protect with the field. Brathwaite utilized the trudge clear to great impact so Pakistan had a defender at profound midwicket, and it was him that the opener selected to give Pakistan their most memorable leap forward.
With massive pivot, particularly to one side hander off the footmarks, the stumps were consistently in play, and it assisted Sajid with tidying up Mikyle Louis and Kavem Hodge to diminish West Indies to 37 for 4. Noman Ali, who had shockingly not opened the bowling from the opposite end, came into the assault and got a wicket on the stroke of lunch when Justin Greaves missed a compass weighed down with risk before center stump.
There was a lot of West Indian obstruction in the primary hour after lunch, most prominently from Alick Athanaze, whose 50 years - West Indies' just such commitment all Test - pretty much kept them alive. Close by Tevin Imlach first and afterward Kevin Sinclair, Athanaze attempted to give the Pakistan spinners as little as could really be expected. They dumped the hostile shot-production, and interestingly all Test, Sajid and Noman momentarily didn't seem to be an immense danger.
However, the force moved again when Shan Masood went to Abrar Ahmed. The somewhat unique test his legspin presents saw a marvel to excuse Imlach, the ball floating in and tearing away to take his external edge. He would likewise break the following organization, because of some factor bob and a stunning jumping get at first slip from Salman Agha, before Agha took the guideline get the accompanying ball to send Gudakesh Motie on his way.
At this point, West Indies' obstruction had been totally broken. Athanaze missed a straight one from Sajid to leave Pakistan one away, and Abrar put a bow on procedures as the shot West Indies played frequently to attempt to adapt on this surface - the high-risk invert clear - conveyed onto the stumps.
The signs for this sort of day were there. It started with Pakistan's best player of twist, Saud Shakeel, tumbling off the primary conveyance when he cut one into short midwicket's hands. Warrican followed it up with the wicket of Rizwan the accompanying over, and on a pitch where grasp and go turned out to be perpetually factor, Pakistan's players were finding it difficult work.
Kamran Ghulam had stayed nearby up to that point, however some additional abandon Warrican attracted his external edge to give Warrican his initial five-wicket pull in Test cricket. West Indies started to tunnel into the tail as Warrican filled in certainty. He changed his speed to trap Noman before the stumps as he attempted an opposite clear, prior to making it seven when Sajid miscued a trudge and got an edge to in reverse point.
The 10th wicket didn't enlist straightforwardly in Warrican's record, yet it should have. Agha pushed one to him on the off side and hared off for a solitary, yet Warrican got neatly and stirred things up around town immediate, getting Khurram Shahzad well out of his wrinkle. The innings wrapped up when Agha attempted to go over the top against Motie, just to see as lengthy off, and Pakistan were all out for 157.
On a surface like this, and with the spinners Pakistan have, however, it was still, by some distance, all that could possibly be needed.