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Venue: Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan

Heavy fog a the ground

Looks like the toss has been delayed because of foggy weather

In reply to Narper

I hope our boys travelled with their dancing shoes.

In reply to Raskil

and running shoes to chase balls all day

In reply to Narper

Lol
True ting

In reply to Narper

It seems Carty has been dropped...Imlach to debit..

Brathwaite
Louis
Imlach
Athanaze
Hodge
Jangoo
Greaves
Sinclair
Motie
Warrican
Seales

It is surprising that it seems Carty is going to be the player who is going to miss out, his last Test he scored a good forty

In reply to dayne

A good forty is for kiddies cricket, not at the international level.
The screen is saying wet outfield, not fog.

In reply to openning

I have live coverage.....I saw the fog...and they say it is cold with 8 degrees C....we boys cant handle dat

In reply to openning

they have the pitch covered by an enclosed tent with heaters inside.. they fear if they remove the tent the immediate condensation will wet the pitch

I wish dis pitch doctoring backfires on dem....it worked in October against Eng ....but its colder now in Jan

In reply to Narper

Oh rass back to bed then- an hour more sleep is golden

In reply to Halliwell

In reply to shivnotout

There was a politician in Trinidad they used to call DuckAnRun

Hold on, you hovering around in order to change your team at the 11th hour- I make you out

UPDATE - 5.22 am GMT - Nothing new to update. The weather hasn't improved much and the waiting game continues. Stay tuned.

In reply to Halliwell

I am in Multan. The weather is foggy and not good for playing cricket. Hopefully, the Sun will be out an hour or 2.

Well Alcaraz played great tennis - no cricket all now

In reply to Chrissy

Live pictures coming in show that it has gotten slightly brighter out there. Groundstaff are milling around on the outfield. I can see the covers being removed.

In reply to shivnotout

What you mean live pictures coming in and you say you there? You open you eyes?

If you are on tour, enjoy it. Have a Karai on me!

Pakistan won the toss and will bat. No Jangoo for West Indies, Imlach will debut and keep wicket.

West Indies: 1 Kraigg Brathwaite (capt), 2 Mikyle Louis, 3 Keacy Carty, 4 Kavem Hodge, 5 Alick Athanaze, 6 Justin Greaves , 7 Tevin Imlach (wk), 8 Gudakesh Motie, 9 Kevin Sinclair, 10 Jomel Warrican, 11 Jayden Seales

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

Pakistan: 1 Shan Masood (capt), 2 Muhammad Hurraira, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Kamran Ghulam, 5 Saud Shakeel, 6 Mohammad Rizwan (wk), 7 Salman Agha, 8 Noman Ali, 9 Sajid Khan, 10 Abrar Ahmed, 11 Khurram Shahzad

Empty, emp, empty stadium

What kinda two-toned rough up pitch dem playing pun?

Big fast bowler Motie opening de bowling?

In reply to culpepperboy

First spinner to open the bowling in a Test match for the West Indies, I think.

Seales strikes! First catch for debutant keeper Imlach. Pakistan 16/1, debutant opener out caught behind for 6.

In reply to 4REALQUICKS

out Caught by Tevin Imlach!! Edged and taken. Clear noise and Muhammad Hurraira falls cheaply on debut.


Muhammad Hurraira c Tevin Imlach b Jayden Seales 6(15)

PAK 16/1

2 gone!!

In reply to mikesiva

out Caught by Tevin Imlach!! A leg-side strangle. And Masood walks. Masood c Tevin Imlach b Motie 11(29)

PAK 20/2

In reply to culpepperboy

out Lbw!! Kamran Ghulam lbw b Jayden Seales 5(6)

PAK 31/3

In reply to shivnotout

150 looking like a good total on this pitch.

Umpires call goes West Indies way and Pakistan lose their third wicket with just 31 runs on the board. Seales, bowling a good consistent line and length is rewarded again and now has 2/13 from his five overs. Motie, the other wicket taker, has 1/13 from his five overs. Ghulam was the latest Pakistani to lose his wicket, out for just 5.

Sharp turn on offer, so not the easiest pitch to bat or keep wicket on yet it has been a nice start for Imlach behind the stumps on test debut. He has held two catches thus far.

4 gone

In reply to culpepperboy

REVIEW WASTE

out Caught by Tevin Imlach!! Pakistan in trouble now. Clear edge and a deviation and a reluctant Babar Azam reviews to lose it. Babar Azam c Tevin Imlach b Jayden Seales 8

PAK 46/4

In reply to culpepperboy

Babar out! Big wicket!

Seales showing that this pitch can assist pacers too....

Third wicket for the superb Jayden Seales, seam movement and accuracy doing the job and Pakistan slide to 46/4 with Babar Azam the man to go this time.

Seales to continue with his extended spell, into his eight over now. Currently has figures of 3/17 and it could oh so easily have been another wicket as he has Saud Shakeel playing and missing outside off stump.

That third wicket for Jayden Seales was his 75th test scalp. He now has 75 wickets at 21 apiece, taken in just his 18th test match.

Greaves into the attack, Seales gets a very well deserved rest after a superb spell of 9-1-19-3

Loose delivery, wide and short from Greaves with his second ball. Punished by Shakeel who smashes it for four to earn slight relief for the home side, who now move onto 60/4 at the end of the 20th over.

Spin now on at both ends, for the first time in the match. Pakistan have started to rebuild after the assault from Jayden Seales, moving on to 79/4 from 26 overs. Sinclair replaces Greaves, who finished his short, opening spell with 0/12 from three overs. For Pakistan, Saud Shakeel is 30* and Rizwan 14*

Tea, Day One

Pakistan 86/4 (28 overs) with Saud Shakeel 33* after Jayden Seales finished an extended opening spell with 3/19

Due to the loss of so much time earlier, the final session is scheduled to be an abbreviated one hour of play, provided the weather and conditions do not intervene further. The visitors, who enjoyed a rampant start in the opening session of play, will hope to make further inroads when play resumes. For the home side, they will be heartened by the unbroken stand of 40 between Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan.

Warrican bowling at the right pace... Sinclair and Motie are bowling too quick.

Hopefully they could adjust... two more wickets and its into the tail.

This pair is probably the best at playing spin though.

Pakistan recovery continues with positive batting after the tea interval. The home side have now moved on to 126/4, with Saud Shakeel 48* and Rizwan 42*

No TV coverage in Jamaica

In reply to Chrissy

It's live on YouTube... here's the link.

Link

Abbreviated first day

Fog about even in the middle of the day

I wonder how roach would have bowled done in these conditions if he was availablev .warrican and sinclair could not build pressure consistantly

Well it looks like they should have played the second seamer, happy to see Carty is in the eleven

Close of Play, Day One:

Pakistan, having won the toss and elected to bat, were soon reduced to 46/4, primarily thanks to an excellent opening spell from Jayden Seales, who finished with 3/21 from ten overs, nine of which he bowled to start the day. The home side will be somewhat relieved to have battled through that early storm, closing the first day of the series without losing any further wickets.

PAK 143/4 (41.3 overs) Saud Shakeel 56*, Mohammad Rizwan 51*, Jayden Seales 3/21

In reply to shivnotout

Day 1: Stumps

PAK 143/4 (41.3) CRR: 3.45

Saud Shakeel 55(99)
Mohammad Rizwan 50(7

Gudakesh Motie 14 1 45 1
Jayden Seales 10 1 21 3
Justin Greaves 3 0 12 0
Kevin Sinclair 7 0 26 0
Jomel Warrican 7 1 32 0
Kraigg Brathwaite 0.3 0 2 0

In reply to Halliwell

In reply to Halliwell

Day 2: 1st Session

PAK 174/4 (53) CRR: 3.28

Saud Shakeel 77(147)
Mohammad Rizwan 60(103

Is Motie sick?

Even the commies begging for Motie now ....

9 down

230/10

10-2

2 wickets in 2 balls for Sajid

Louis maybe saw the second coming of Gordon Greenidge…then the ball turned

This may not end well…

All out 30.

In reply to Chrissy

Basket to carry water…

In reply to anthonyp

Thanks for that...it's not on in the UK either.

Sky showing SA20 instead.

Pakistan 230 all out

Shakeel 84
Rizwan 71

Seales 3-27
Warrican 3-69

I subscribe to Willow TV when test cricket is being played, so I have the full thing here.

In reply to mikesiva

Mike, it’s on ARY Digital Sky748

Moti and Warrican can blaze some bat here and save a follow on…kinda maybe possibly

Warrican knocks in the back of his bat? ??
A reverse sweep with the back of the bat…is that still a reverse?

Yes Moti, lash dem!

4444444444

Just 20 overs into their reply, the tourists are 8 down for just 90. Motie and Warrican, playing their shots, have actually put together 24 off 26 balls, which is the highest partnership of the sorry West Indian effort.

Pakistan, earlier dismissed for 230, will be delighted to have the opportunity to bowl against such a meagre batting line up.

The pitch, clearly a raging turner as expected, aside from the one partnership between Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan, which engineered 141, has claimed the other 17 wickets for less than 180 runs.

Motie gone. Done by the quicker ball from Noman who has him playing on. Five wickets for Noman, Motie goes for a top score in the innings of 19, West Indies 91/9.

Seales brings up the hundred for the West Indies and gets himself off the mark with a massive strike for six. Same over, Warrican blasts another ball over the boundary for a maximum. Seales then hits the first ball of the next over for six more. Maybe the batting order should do a 180!

WI - 119/9 (Warrican 22*, Seales 13*)

Second innings, maybe West indies should reverse the batting order to soften up these spin bowlers.

Warrican continues to use the reverse sweep to great effect, moving onto 31 from 24 balls with another boundary. Followed by another six for Seales, West Indies now 137/9 (25.1 overs)

All out next ball for 137, last wicket partnership was the highest in the innings, 46 between Seales (22) and Warrican, who finished unbeaten on 31. The last two wickets put on 71 runs, after the first eight had scores a measly 66...

Pakistan will begin their second innings with a lead of 93.

Day 2: 3rd Session
WI 137
PAK 230 & 12/0 (3.2) CRR: 3.6

Pakistan lead by 105 runs

Day 2: 3rd Session

WI 137
PAK 230 & 26/0 (6) CRR: 4.33

Pakistan lead by 119 runs

Muhammad Hurraira 11(23)
Shan Masood 11(13)

Jayden Seales
3-0-11-0
Gudakesh Motie
3-0-11-0

10.5
Kevin Sinclair to Muhammad Hurraira, byes, FOUR, sharp turn from outside off! Pitches on a good length,
10.4
Kevin Sinclair to Muhammad Hurraira, FOUR, turning down the leg-side, Hurraira looks to sweep and it flies off a thick top-edge over leg slip

Day 2: 3rd Session

PAK 52/0 (11) CRR: 4.73
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Pakistan lead by 145 runs

Muhammad Hurraira 20(39)
Shan Masood 24(27

11.3
Warrican to Muhammad Hurraira, leg byes, 1 run, that seems to be pad first and Warrican goes up in appeal! Umpire says not out. Will West Indies go for the review? Yes they do. Good length ball that slides in with the arm as Hurraira looks to punch through the off-side. He gets cramped for room, and it definitely clips the back leg before hitting the bat. But ball-tracking says that the impact is umpire's call on off stump.

Saved on the impact, by a hair's breadth! Warrican defeats the batsman but Pakistan remain without loss due to umpire's call on impact! Hurraira survives...just. Pakistan now 55/0 in their second innings, a lead of 148.

Jomel Warrican, noticeably slower than Motie, is already proving to be more of a threat. The Pakistan spinners generally bowled much slower than Motie and Sinclair, with only Warrican among thr West Indies slow bowlers understanding the slower speed / turn ratio works better on this type of surface.

12.2
Kevin Sinclair to Masood, no ball, fuller than a good length on off, Masood goes back again and defends. Another no-ball from Sinclair who bowled five of them in the first innings

Day 2: 3rd Session
PAK 65/0 (15) CRR: 4.33

Pakistan lead by 158 runs

Shan Masood 26(37)
Muhammad Hurraira 27(54)

Kevin Sinclair
3-0-15-0
Jomel Warrican
2-1-1-0

Given LBW

15.4
Warrican to Muhammad Hurraira, out Lbw!! Up goes the finger for LBW, and Hurraira has taken the review! That looked pretty adjacent. Tossed up at 78.5kph, drifts in from around the wicket, Hurraira gets forward to defend but the ball goes on with the arm and beats the inside edge. He is hit low on the front pad in front of off, and ball-tracking says it would've crashed into leg stump

Muhammad Hurraira lbw b Warrican 29(5 [4s-3]

PAK 67/1

West Indies have gone to Kavem Hodge instead of Motie
Kavem Hodge, Left arm orthodox, comes into the attack
16.1
Kavem Hodge to Masood, no run

17.2
Warrican to Masood, SIX, dances down, hits with the turn and clears the ropes! Masood takes the attack to Warrican! Tossed up just outside off,

Day 2: 3rd Session

PAK 79/1 (1 CRR: 4.39

Pakistan lead by 172 runs

Babar Azam4(
Shan Masood34(43)

Jomel Warrican
4-1-11-1

Long Hop
18.1
Kavem Hodge to Masood, SIX, half-tracker at the stumps, Masood rocks back and nails the pull over midwicket!

Comms asking why Motie is not bowling

PAK 88/1 (19) CRR: 4.63

Babar given LBW

19.2
Warrican to Babar Azam, out Lbw!! Another one that goes on with the arm from Warrican, and this time it's Babar who is given out LBW! He has a discussion with Masood about a review, but decides against it

Babar Azam lbw b Warrican 5(11)

In reply to Narper

As a bajan Im asking the question too. Even if Motie is not at his best he is still one of our best bowlers. Captain risks bringing questions of his judgment being affected by his friendship with Warrican. Hodge was a crazy option

Alright fellas We can chase anything under 300!!

Drinks, final session of a drama packed second day

PAK 102/2 (Shan 50*, Warrican 2/15) lead by 195 runs

At this point in the match, Warrican has 5/84 and top scored with an unbeaten 31 in the West Indies dismal first innings. He, along with Jayden Seales and the glove work of Tevin Imlach, are probably the only bright spots after almost two days of the test match.

Shan Masood, well set on fifty, gets run out and Pakistan lose their third. Good work in the field by Hodge and Warrican.

PAK 106/3 (Shan Masood 52), a lead of 199.

Bad Light Stopped Play

This will be the end of the second day. A record 19 wickets fell, the most in a day's play in Pakistan test. The home side lead by 202 runs, looking very well set to go on and win the opening test.

PAK - 230 (Saud Shakeel 84, Mohammad Rizwan 71, Seales 3/27, Warrican 3/69) & 109/3 (Shan Masood 52, Warrican 10-3-17-2)
WI - 137 (Warrican 31*, Noman Ali 5/39, Sajid Khan 4/65)

It's all Coach Andre Coley's fault.

When he saw things heading downhill, he should've padded up and gone out to bat.

In reply to Drapsey

Well, he certainly could not have done any worse than the top and middle order!

1st innings - PAK 230 (10 wkts, 68.5 Ov)
Motie 15 1 48 1
Jayden Seales 14 2 27 3
Justin Greaves 3 0 12 0
Kevin Sinclair 15 1 61 2
Warrican 20.5 3 69 3
K Brathwaite 1 0 3 0

2nd innings to date - PAK 109/3 (31) CRR: 3.52
Gudakesh Motie 9 0 39 0
Jayden Seales 5 0 13 0
Kevin Sinclair 5 1 16 0
Jomel Warrican 10 3 17 2
Kavem Hodge 2 0 13 0

Day 3: START

Pakistan lead by 202 runs

PAK 109/3 (31) CRR: 3.52

Kamran Ghulam 9(40)
Saud Shakeel 2(8

Gawn fuss ball !!!!!!!!!

Warrican strikes !!!!

31.1
Warrican to Saud Shakeel, out Caught by Justin Greaves!! Such a soft dismissal as Shakeel departs off the very first ball of the day! Slow and tossed up on off, he gets forward to flick it through the on-side, fails to keep it down and gives catching practice to short midwicket.

Saud Shakeel c Justin Greaves b Warrican 2(9)

Gawn

fifer for warrican

37.6
Warrican to Kamran Ghulam, out Caught by Tevin Imlach!! Edged and gone! Plenty of flight on this outside off, lands on a good length and turns away. Ghulam looks to cut but the ball isn't short enough. All he manages to do is nick it through to the keeper.

Kamran Ghulam c Tevin Imlach b Warrican 27(66) [4s-4]

Jomel Warrican
14-3-23-5

Day 3: 1st Session

PAK 132/6 (3 CRR: 3.47

Pakistan lead by 225 runs

Salman Agha3(9

Noman Ali, left handed bat, comes to the crease

Congrats to Warrican well deserved

41.4
Warrican to Noman Ali, out Lbw!! Very full around off stump, Noman is beaten on the reverse-sweep and up goes the finger for LBW. Clever from Warrican who anticipated the shot and fired it full and straight

Noman Ali lbw b Warrican 9(15)

PAK 142/7 (41.4) CRR: 3.41

Ball-tracking on the Noman dismissal shows that it was missing leg stump.

41.5
Warrican to Sajid Khan, FOUR, Sajid on the attack straightaway! Full outside off, he gets low and sweeps hard wide of mid-on

This time Sajid is beaten on the sweep and West Indies take a review for LBW!

Day 3: 1st Session

PAK 146/7 (42) CRR: 3.48

Pakistan lead by 239 runs

Sajid Khan 4(2)
Salman Agha 4(16)

Jomel Warrican
16-3-30-6

warricam again,,,sajid goes

43.6
Warrican to Sajid Khan, out Caught by Brathwaite!! Another wicket for Warrican!

Sajid Khan c Brathwaite b Warrican 5(6) [4s-1]

150/8 (44) CRR: 3.41

44.2
Motie to Salman Agha, FOUR, length ball turning away from the stumps, Agha goes for the reverse-sweep and gets it away fine

run out
Direct hit and Shahzad looks to be well short.

44.5
Motie to Salman Agha, out Khurram Shahzad Run Out!! Direct hit and Shahzad looks to be well short. Who else but Warrican with that throw. Agha plays this to backward point, they go for a very risky run and Warrican makes them pay. He nails the target with Shahzad well short of the crease.. [/b]

Khurram Shahzad run out (Warrican) 0(0)

In reply to Narper

Who can?
Warri-can!!

45.1
Warrican to Salman Agha, no run, big shout for LBW, not given! Full on middle and leg, Agha misses the sweep and is hit on the pad. Did that straighten enough or was it sliding down leg? Oh yes, it would've crashed into leg stump but West Indies did not review

I hope Coley thinks outside the box and opens with Kraig and Motie as pinch hitter. Just a thought.

Motie strikes

46.4
Motie to Salman Agha, out Caught by Mikyle Louis!! Miscued in the air and gone! So the non-review doesn't prove too costly for West Indies as Agha perishes in the very next over. Tossed up and drifting in

Salman Agha c Mikyle Louis b Motie 14(3 [4s-1]

PAK 157
Pakistan lead by 250 runs

It is time for a few men to be heroes, 251 is not a big score

In reply to voiceofreason

WE must bat positively.....no poking around

Gudakesh Motie 11.4 0 48 1
Jayden Seales 10 0 37 0
Kevin Sinclair 5 1 16 0
Jomel Warrican 18 3 32 7
Kavem Hodge 2 0 13 0

Day 3: Innings Break -

WI needs 251 runs

Brathwaite and Mikyle Louis are at the crease.
Brathwaite is on strike.

Sajid Khan will open the attack

Review time......alrready....NOT OU T

0.1
Sajid Khan to Brathwaite, no run, a bump-ball check has been sent to the third umpire! Tossed up outside off, good length ball, Brathwaite attempts a reverse-sweep straightaway and drags it off a thick under-edge that pops up off the shot to short leg. Replay shows that it has clearly hit the ground before popping up

0.6
Sajid Khan to Brathwaite, FOUR, square of the wicket

Day 3: 1st Session

WI 6/0 (1) CRR: 6

West Indies need 245 runs

Kraigg Brathwaite 5(3)
Mikyle Louis 1(3

1.4
Abrar Ahmed to Brathwaite, FOUR, tossed up and drifting well down the leg-side, Brathwaite spots the line early, gets low and sweeps it fine

Day 3: 1st Session

WI 16/0 (4) CRR: 4

West Indies need 235 runs

Kraigg Brathwaite 12(11)

Mikyle Louis4(13

Gawn !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

KB goes

4.2
Sajid Khan to Brathwaite, out Caught by Khurram Shahzad!! Brathwaite falls to the trap. Sajid Khan is pumped. Brathwaite comes down the track and is not to the pitch of the ball as he swings at it, still hits it well but picks out deep mid-wicket to perfection. Shahzad did not have to move an inch.

Brathwaite c Khurram Shahzad b Sajid Khan 12(13) [4s-2]

WI 16/1 (4.2) CRR: 3.69

That was some swiping....

4.3
Sajid Khan to Keacy Carty, FOUR, smashed for four. Tossed up full outside off, Keacy Carty gets the front pad out of the line from the stumps, sweeps hard and wide of deep mid-wicket, to his right, what a way to get off the mark

WI 21/1 (5) CRR: 4.2

Mikyle Louis4(15)
Keacy Carty5(2)

WI 25/1 (6) CRR: 4.17

West Indies need 226 runs

Another gawn !!!!

6.2
Sajid Khan to Keacy Carty, out Caught by Rizwan!! Off the glove and caught by Rizwan. Tossed up outside off, Keacy Carty goes for the sweep, it hits the wristband on the glove and pops straight up, Rizwan takes an easy catch. Tucker had the finger up straightaway and Carty was happy to walk off. Need UltraEdge to confirm if it hit the wristband on the glove

Keacy Carty c Rizwan b Sajid Khan 6(6) [4s-1]

Baptism by water for Carty.
Someone needs to take the helm here with the captain sidelined.

Day 3: 1st Session

WI 29/2 ( CRR: 3.62

West Indies need 222 runs

Kavem Hodge 0(7)
Mikyle Louis 10(22)

In reply to Narper

That is plenty runs

In reply to embsallie

Warrican must take charge....he is on top of the world...in the right frame of mind to deliver wih some help from de others

In reply to Halliwell

Warrican wrecked dem.....now to deliver with de bat

Gawn again

10.5
Sajid Khan to Kavem Hodge, out Bowled!!

Kavem Hodge b Sajid Khan 0(17)

WI 32/3 (10.5) CRR: 2.95

Alick Athanaze, left handed bat, comes to the crease

WI33/3 (11) CRR: 3

West Indies need 218 runs

What a wild swipe by Greaves in the last over before lunch

Out LBW

54/5

Don’t know where their common sense has gone.

In reply to Acid

WI 88/5 (21.2) CRR: 4.12


Day 3: 2nd Session - West Indies need 163 runs

run rate looking good

In reply to shivnotout

And the tail continues to wag the dog.

An absurdity.

PAK 230 & 157
WI 137 & 123

Pakistan won by 127 runs

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Sajid Khan

our cricket is at dismal proportions, with no end in sight

The only consolation to some or silver lining to others, is that there are no Yardies in the team to blame