Local boy Seales cops fourth Test fifer
West Indies 311 & 181 (Joseph 38, Chanderpaul 35; Abbas 5-22) beat Pakistan 282 & 120 (Babar 58*, Abbas 23; Seales 5-20) by 90 runs
The West Indies christened the Brian Lara Cricket Academy with a comprehensive 90-run win over Pakistan in the first-ever Test match at the venue to go 1-0 up in the two-match series.
Hometown hero Jayden Seales was skillful, accurate, and miserly in a spell of 5 for 20 that helped Windies skittle the visitors to defend 211 in the low-scoring affair, earning the result inside four days.
For the first time in the Caribbean, all forty wickets in a two-match series fell to seamers. After batting for just over an hour on the day, the West Indian quicks took no time to settle in the fourth innings, quickly reducing Pakistan to 25 for 3 in the second half of the morning session.
The procession of wickets continued, with captain Babar Azam being the lone source of Pakistani resistance. We can only speculate just how the disruption of the batting order affected them.
Resident No. 3 Shan Masood was forced to bat at No. 8, nursing a fractured finger suffered in the first innings from Seales. It wasn’t until No. 11 Mohammad Abbas walked to the crease that the Windies bowlers were made to try something different.
