Published: Oct 23, 2016, 09:30 AM (IST)
Edited: Oct 23, 2016, 07:23 PM (IST)
Good Morning! Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of Day Three of the 2nd of the three-Test series between Pakistan and West Indies, at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi. We at CricketCountry will bring all the live updates of this cracker of a contest. Pakistan are in control of the match courtesy Misbah-ul-Haq and Younis Khan, the former missed his century by 4 runs while Sarfraz Ahmed, Nawaz and Sohail provided late-order fireworks. West Indies on the other, hand are still behind 346 runs and with their main batsman in Darren Bravo back in the pavilion. West Indies were hampered in the dying moments of the final session. LIVE CRICKET SCORECARD: Pakistan vs West Indies, 2nd Test at Abu Dhabi
Yasir Shah came into Pakistan’s help as he removed Bravo who was looking all set to get to his half-century. Marlon Samuels and Kraigg Brathwaite played very responsibly but their persistence came to an end. West Indies when came out to bat started off well and that is what was needed from them as they had a big total to overtake. In the final session the day, Pakistan took the new ball and the skipper handed the ball to Rahat Ali who has come into the squad instead of Mohammad Aamer.
Rahat immediately started getting the ball to reverse-swing and that started imposing problems on Johnson and Bravo, but Johnson in particular and soon the reverse swing from Rahat was rewarded as he trapped Leon Johnson for a simple leg-before. Samuels walked in and he along with Brathwaite put up a partnership of 41 runs. But the two quick wickets of Samuels and Brathwaite in the last stage of the game saw Pakistan coming out of the field as the dominant team.
Day Two started with Pakistan at the score of 304 for 4 with Misbah unbeaten on 90. Shannon Gabriel trapped Misbah in front of a full-length delivery which would have gone to hit the leg stump if not Misbah’s pads. It looked like West Indies would capitalise as they the hosts had two new batsmen i.e wicket keeper Sarfraz and all-rounder Nawaz at the crease.
Both went on to put a partnership of 70 runs from 103 balls for the 7th wicket which just took the game away from the visitors. Gabriel grabbed the wickets of opener Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Misbah, Sarfraz and Zulfiqar Babar to get to his maiden 5 wicket haul. Gabriel previously had the figures of 3 wickets for just 10 runs against Zimbabwe.
