sportgame Babar Azam and Fawad Alam fashioned a 158-run stand to direct Pakistan to 212-4 at stumps. On Friday after West Indies took three wickets within the four overs on Day 1 of the second Test.
Abid Ali scratched the third ball of the day-to-moment slip. Azhar Ali caught behind without scoring and Imran Butt was out after a tv audit as Pakistan flopped at 2-3. Vindicating the West Indies’ choice to put them in to bat after winning the toss.
However, one of Pakistan’s most noticeably awful begins to a Test match, captain Azam and Alam burrowed in to resist the early crease movement and post flexible half-centuries.
The pitch dried out rapidly as Babar and Fawad put together Pakistan’s greatest partnership of the series in extraordinary heat that inevitably saw Fawad retire hurt on 76 after battling with cramp.
Kemar Roach
Kemar Roach had Babar caught by Jason Holder inside the slips for 75 at the starting of the evening session. Thus he wrapped up the foremost great of the home bowlers with 3-49.
“I thought Kemar (Roach) should have extended his opening spell for a couple more overs given. That he was bowling so well and the conditions were really helpful to the bowlers at that time,” said West Indies bowling coach Roddy Estwick.
“Still, you’ve got to deliver credit to the way Babar and Fawad played. Since they buckled down well and worked difficult to urge their group in a decent position.”
Mohammad Rizwan (22) and Faheem Ashraf (23) were unbeaten when terrible light brought a premature close to procedures.
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