The West Indies, on Monday morning, went down by 63 runs to Pakistan, in the first T20 International in Karachi. Nicholas Pooran won the toss and inserted the hosts; revealing that Shamarh Brooks and Devon Thomas—both of whom were brought in from the ODI squad following positive COVID tests that left WINDIES three players short—had been selected, ahead of Darren Bravo—an original member of the T20 squad.

The Caribbean side got off to a good start, as Akeal Hosein sent Babar Azam back for a second-ball duck. Oshane Thomas followed up Hosein’s successful first over with a tidy 5-run second, as Pakistan were restricted to 7.5 rpo for the first half of the innings.

Unfortunately, Mohammad Rizwan stuck around and he, along with Haider Ali, in a 62-ball 105-run fourth-wicket stand, were able to lay a solid foundation for acceleration. And while a WINDIES fight-back had Pakistan prime for a total just around 180, Mohammad Nawaz’s 10-ball 30 got his team just above par, with 200/6.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.comtell the bowlers to bowl at the stump should be a good start

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At this time I feel the ICC should step in and say look, West Indies did enough for cricket around the world to allow them and their fans to continue to go through this constant embarrassment. So to save our history, ICC should pull West Indies out of all international games in all three versions and have us to play against teams like China, Japan, the US, Canada, Netherlands etc. What I am seeing whether from our seniors or young players is too embarrassing to behold. We are just not on the same level with teams like Pakistan, Australia, England, India, Afghanistan and the others

[b Maybe they should let our women play against the Pakistan men team and let our men play against the Pakistan Women’ team. That looks like a better matchup