Pakistan biggest win over West Indies and other statistical highlights from 1st T20I
Pakistan’s win over West Indies by 9-wickets in the 1st T20I is their joint biggest in terms of wickets and third biggest in terms of balls remaining while chasing.
The first Twenty20 International (T20I) of the three match series between Pakistan and West Indies was played at Dubai. Bowling first, Pakistan’s all-rounder Imad Wasim run through the Caribbean side, which is famous for their long, deep and strong batting line-up. Only batsman to put up a fight was Dwayne Bravo who was able to score some runs, 55 off them and ensured his team put up a decent total of 115. In reply, Pakistan chased down this below par total quite easily by losing only one-wicket of Sharjeel Khan. In the course of chase, Babar Azam made his first fifty of his T20I career and won the match for Pakistan by 9-wickets. With this resounding win, many records were broken and re-written, Abhishek Kumar presents some interesting statistical highlights from this match.
• 17 is the lowest score at the fall of West Indies’ 4th-wicket in T20Is. Also, this is the second time, when West Indies have lost their first four-wickets at the score of 17 and both the time, the opposition team was Pakistan. Last time they lost four-wickets at the score of 17 was on July 28, 2013 at Kingstown.
• 22 is now the lowest score at the fall of West Indies’ 5th-wicket followed by 47 as the lowest score at the fall of West Indies’ 6th and 7th-wicket and then, 48 is now the lowest score at the fall of West Indies’ 8th-wicket in T20Is.
• Imad’s spell of 4-0-14-5 is the third best spell by any Pakistani bowler after Umar Gul’s 3-0-6-5 against New Zealand in 2009 and 2.2-0-6-5 against South Africa in 2013. With this, Imad became 16th bowler overall to take a fifer in a T20I. Also, this spell by Imad is the third best by a left-arm bowler after Rangana Herath’s 3.3-2-3-5 against New Zealand in 2014 and Elias Sunny 4-1-13-5 against Ireland in 2012. Imad’s spell was also the best by any bowler against West Indies in a T20I.
• Partnership of 66-run between Bravo and Taylor is now the highest by any pair for 9th wicket in T20Is. They broke the previous best partnership record of 63-run for 9th wicket between Saeed Ajmal and Sohail Tanvir set against Sri Lanka in 2013.
• Taylor’s 21-run knock is the joint fourth highest by any batsmen at number 10 position in T20Is after Sompal Kami (40), Sunil Narine (23) and Hamid Hassan (22).
• Bravo’s fifty came in 50-balls is the slowest half-century by any West Indies batsman in T20Is. Overall, this is the fifth slowest half-century by any batsman in T20Is after Ryan Watson (54-balls), Gautam Gambhir (54-balls), Shoaib Khan jnr (53-balls) and William Porterfield (52-balls).
• 115 is the third lowest total by West Indies after losing all 10-wickets in a T20Is. Also, this is their lowest total against Pakistan in T20Is.
• First instance of left-arm bowlers taking 8 wickets in an innings of a T20I.
• Bravo made 55 and similarly Babar Azam also made unbeaten 55. This is now the highest and first fifty-plus identical score by two batsmen from different teams in the same T20I.
• Pakistan’s win over West Indies by 9-wickets is their joint biggest in terms of wickets and third biggest in terms of balls remaining while chasing as they chased the total with 34-balls remaining. Also, Pakistan became second team to claim the victory over West Indies by 9-wickets in a T20I.
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