Shakeel and Rizwan resuscitate Pakistan to 143-4 in 1st test against West Indies

Half-centuries from Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan restored Pakistan to 143-4 after top-order hitters bumbled in the to begin with cricket test against West Indies on Friday. Shakeel made a coarse unbeaten 56 and Rizwan was not out on 51 on Day 1 as they modified Pakistan on a dubious dry wicket tailor-made for spinners.The begin of the test coordinate between the two bottom-placed groups in the World Test Championship was deferred by four hours since of overwhelming mist and fog in Multan. Quick bowler Jayden Seales’ (3-21) triple strike at that point cleared out Pakistan reeling at 46-4 interior the to begin with hour.Shakeel and Rizwan resuscitate Pakistan to 143-4 in 1st test against West Indies

But Shakeel and Rizwan steadied the innings with their unbroken 97-run stand and increased the scoring rate in an hour-long final session which delivered 57 runs.Both players utilized their feet well against the three West Indies spinners and cleared the awful balls for boundaries amid their forceful batting after tea.Pakistan and West Indies stuffed their playing XIs with three pro spinners each, but it was Seales who made an early affect with the modern ball.Left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie (1-45) moreover tied down the players amid his unaltered 14-over spell and there was calculable turn for moderate bowlers from ball one after Pakistan had won the hurl and chosen to bat.Seales found the exterior edge of debutant Shakeel and Rizwan resuscitate Pakistan to 143-4 in 1st test against West Indies

Mohammad Hurraira (6) in his third over and captain Shan Masood (11) got a black out edge down the leg-side against Motie which gave Tevin Imlach his moment capture in his make a big appearance test match.Seales reliably hit the difficult lengths in his nine-over sharp opening spell and disturbed Pakistan players with his crease and swing. Kamran Ghulam (5) was ruled out leg some time recently wicket when he advertised no shot to an immaculate in-swinger fair a ball after driving Seales to cover boundary for four.Seales at that point made encourage advances when he had the prized wicket of Babar Azam (8), who too edged behind the wicket and withdrawn after confronting 20 cheeky balls.Pakistan is at No. 8 and West Indies is at No. 9 on the WTC focuses table after performing under-par over the final one year in tests. Australia and South Africa have as of now qualified for June 11-15 WTC last at Lord’s.Pakistan has misplaced eight of its final 10 test matches whereas West Indies has however to win a test arrangement in this WTC cycle, losing to India, Britain and South Africa and drawing against Australia and Bangladesh.

One of the two Pakistan wins came at the Multan Cricket Stadium and on the same pitch when it beat Britain on an built dry wicket to favor the turn twosome of Sajid Khan and Noman Ali.West Indies dropped vice-captain Joshua Da Silva after the wicketkeeper-batter couldn’t inspire in the three-day warm-up diversion against Pakistan Shaheens, and the visitors are too without sick quick bowler Kemar Cockroach.

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