Pakistan v West Indies Test:

[ghazi52]

West Indies tour of United Arab Emirates,

1st Test: Pakistan v West Indies at Dubai (DSC), Oct 13-17, 2016


Pakistan 215/0 (67.4 ov)

Pakistan won the toss

 

[ghazi52]

Day 1 - Session 2

Pakistan 1st innings
R M B 4s 6s SR

Sami Aslam b Chase 90 290 212 9 0 42.45
Azhar Ali not out 116 200 13 0 58.00

Extras (b 1, lb 2, w 1, nb 5) 9

Total (1 wicket; 67.5 overs..) 215 (3.16 runs per over)

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan..................... 231/1 (74.5 overs)

Pakistan RR 3.08
Last 10 ovs 32/1 RR 3.20

Min overs remaining 15.1

 

[S.U.R.B.]

I miss the old WI side.Seems like the WI board is messing up things for their players & the cricket in general with some ridiculous policies and frequent changes related to the difficulties in the availability of their players, thanks to the T20 leagues.Finance is a major issue that has shifted the priorities of their players and their board could not foresee it.

They were whitewashed in the T20 and ODI formats and now in the test matches they are playing against computers and androids.Well that's what it looks like as the Pakistani test side is toying with them.First day of the first test match and the series already belongs to Pakistan.Not a pretty sight, if you are a cricket fan.

NB: No Younis Khan in the Pakistan squad for the first test game.As a PCB spokesperson said, "Younis has informed chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq that he won't able to play the first Test,"


As of now, it doesn't seem like they are missing him much.

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan............. 275/1 ........(86.6 ov)

 

[CHD]

Innings defeat for westindies in all 3 matches......

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan 279/1 (90.0 ov)

Pakistan RR 3.10

Stumps - Day 1


Batsmen R........... B

Asad Shafiq (rhb)............... 33......... 66

Azhar Ali (rhb)................... 146...... 268

 

[ghazi52]

Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam put on an opening partnership of 215 © AFP
Pakistan dominated the first day of their 400th Test, piling on 279 for 1, after Misbah-ul-Haq won the toss and opted to bat. Openers Azhar Ali and Sami Aslam made the most of the batting-friendly conditions in Dubai, sharing a double-century stand, before Asad Shafiq came in at No. 3 and lent his weight to a batting effort that deflated West Indies.

In theory, both teams were in uncharted territory, playing their first day-night Test - and the second overall - at a time when the concept is still new, with the behaviour of the pink ball under scrutiny. In practice, the ball did not do much in the afternoon heat and, while there was a bit more for the West Indies bowlers under lights, they did not do enough to threaten the batsmen for sustained periods.

The pink ball offered very little swing to the new-ball bowlers and very little reverse-swing as it got older. On both counts, West Indies did not help their own cause. At the start of the day, both Shannon Gabriel and Jason Holder were too short to give the new ball a chance to swing. Miguel Cummins bowled fuller, but not consistently enough. As the ball grew older, West Indies seemed uninterested in keeping one side shiny to extract reverse-swing.

Azhar was fluent almost from the outset, marrying a tight defence with a number of sumptuous drives. One such drive, wide of mid-off off Roston Chase's bowling, brought up his 11th Test century, off 184 balls. He didn't stop there, walking off at stumps on an unbeaten 146. His opening partner, Aslam, was the more circumspect of the two, but both batsmen were very strong on the cut when the bowlers dropped short.

Aslam often skipped out to the spinners to hit them down the ground, but was equally impressive when leaving balls outside off. He also used the sweep shot quite effectively, but it was that shot that led to his eventual downfall - he got a bottom-edge onto the stumps off Chase to depart for 90 and end a 215-run opening stand.

That brought Shafiq to the crease at No. 3. Though Shafiq has mostly batted at the No. 6 position in international cricket, he is a regular No. 3 in domestic cricket. Moreover, the adjustment from No. 6 to No. 3 is minimal when the openers have consumed more than 67 overs and the pitch has no terrors. Shafiq took his time to settle into his innings and calmly accumulated 33 runs, before walking back undefeated at stumps.

While the first ball held its shape for the full 80 overs, it was quite discoloured and tattered by the time the second new ball was due. Holder, who had looked increasingly unimpressed with the state of the older ball, took that new ball immediately. Like the first new ball, though, it did not offer much in the way of swing and the second-wicket partnership steadily swelled to 64 by the close of play.

It was Gabriel who had generated the first of two half-chances for West Indies in the first session. In his second over, he seamed one away from Azhar to induce an outside edge, but the ball fell short of Kraigg Brathwaite at second slip. Cummins generated the other in his second spell when Azhar slashed a short, wide delivery towards Leon Johnson at gully; the ball burst through Johnson's hands and raced away to third man for a boundary.

If the bowling was not sufficiently penetrative, the decision-making was also puzzling at times. West Indies used six bowlers before tea, but there was no discernible logic in the manner in which they were used. Brathwaite bowled three overs of gentle offspin before either Devendra Bishoo or Chase was introduced. By the time Bishoo was called upon, in the 21st over of the chase, Azhar and Aslam had grown in confidence and were finding the boundary with increasing regularity, pouncing whenever the bowlers erred.

The one spell that came close to being penetrative was Holder's spell immediately after the tea break. With a bit more bounce and carry under lights, Holder bowled with more intensity, troubling Azhar with some well-directed bouncers. Azhar fended a few of those in the air, but got away with it due to the lack of close-in fielders.

When Holder went up for a big lbw shout against Azhar and reviewed the not-out decision, West Indies lost their first review. Replays showed ball would have missed leg stump. Thereafter, Gabriel and Cummins also found more pace, the former bowling some good bouncers to Aslam. Bishoo also created his closest opportunity under lights, wrapping Aslam on the pads, but the not-out decision was upheld upon review when HawkEye indicated that the ball would have gone down leg with the angle.

Such fleeting moments of encouragement were all West Indies had to cling to on a deflating opening day in which the pink ball did not misbehave and the bowlers were largely unthreatening.

 

[abbasniazi]

Good going...pakistan must be targeting to bat only once and post a massive score, then go for a kill and get west indies out twice...

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan..... 436 / 2


Pakistan RR 3.38

Last 10 ovs 48/0 RR 4.80
Min overs remaining 51.2

Azhar double-century as Pakistan build

Starting the second day on a score of 279 for 1, Pakistan ensured that their strong position was not squandered, adding 112 runs in the first session for the sole loss of Asad Shafiq. Prior to that wicket, the overnight batsmen had added 73 runs to the total, taking the second-wicket partnership to 137. Debutant Babar Azam settled in without too much difficulty and saw off the session with Azhar Ali, who benefited from a drop at slip during his otherwise serene progress towards a second Test double-century.

Shannon Gabriel clocked up impressive speeds in the first over of the day. His fifth ball, bowled at 147 kph, seamed into Shafiq and clipped the top of his back pad on its way through to the wicketkeeper. The appeal, seemingly for a caught-behind, was turned down, but replays indicated that the ball would have gone on to hit enough of the top of middle stump for the batsman to be given lbw on review.

The review was not called for, however, and West Indies were made to pay for it as Azhar and Shafiq eased their way to a century stand in the absence of any swing. While Shafiq played the odd false shot, including a full-blooded sweep that failed to make contact with a flighted delivery from Devendra Bishoo, Azhar looked compact and sharp, quick to pounce on width and short balls. He greeted Roston Chase with successive lofted shots for four and six, and also played a number of assured sweep shots against both spinners.

The pair's initial progress was slow, thanks to the disciplined lines of Gabriel and Jason Holder, but the runs began to flow when Bishoo and Miguel Cummins were introduced. Bishoo dropped short too often and offered some juicy half-volleys outside off; Cummins repeatedly strayed onto the batsmen's pads.

Bishoo, despite his inconsistency, got the only breakthrough of the session when Shafiq skipped down and hammered the ball straight back at the bowler. Bishoo's calm catch was perhaps more impressive than the delivery. His bowling perked up immediately after the wicket, though. He beat Azam with a beautifully flighted ball and finding the batsman's outside edge in the next over, only for the ball to fly to the right of slip. Frustratingly, he dropped short again the very next ball and was cut for another boundary.

Seven overs after Shafiq's wicket, Chase got Azhar to nick an attempted cover drive to slip, where Jermaine Blackwood spilled a sharp chance that should have been taken. Azhar survived, and went into tea six runs short of his double-century.

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Azhar Ali pushes one into the off side,

 

[ghazi52]

467 / 2.............. (135.5 ov)

Pakistan RR 3.43
Last 10 ovs 45/0 RR 4.50
Min overs remaining 44.1

Day 2 - Session 2 Current time 19:22 local, 15:22 GMT Test Career

Batsmen ........R..... B

Azhar Ali (rhb) ..............239 ...407
Babar Azam (rhb)......... 50....... 87

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Pakistan....... 482/2........... (137.2 ov)

 

[WaLeEdK2]

For some reason i want West Indies to win one match.

 

[ghazi52]

Pakistan ..................501/2

Batsmen ..........................R
Babar Azam (rhb) ............66
Azhar Ali (rhb)................ 257

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Pakistan......... 525/3 .....(144.0 ov)

Last 10 ovs 66/1 RR 6.60
Min overs remaining 36


Batsmen

Misbah-ul-Haq (rhb)................ 6
Azhar Ali (rhb) ........................271

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[litman]

boring match. dead pitch. nothing for bowlers at all. if WI plays sensibly and supported by poor pak fielding the match will surely be heading towards a draw.

 

[ghazi52]

Azhar Ali cruised past 250 by supper on the second day

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"Azhar Ali Has Passed now ROOTs 4005 Test runs"