IMAD Wasim produced an excellent performance with the ball as Pakistan completed a series whitewash over World Twenty20 champions West Indies yesterday.Pakistan had already secured the three-match series and a dominant display in Abu Dhabi ensured a 3-0 margin of victory.
And it was the left-arm spin of all-rounder Imad that proved the difference in the eight-wicket win as he took 3-21 to reduce the Windies to 103-5.
Shoaib Malik’s unbeaten 43 ensured Pakistan reached their victory target with 29 balls left, as thoughts now turn to the three-match ODI series with the Windies.
Imad grabbed two wickets in the third over, Johnson Charles (5) paying the price for a dreadful shot as he was bowled, with Chadwick Walton departing for a first-ball duck in similar fashion.
A mix-up between Andre Fletcher (9) and Marlon Samuels (42 not out) saw the former run-out despite a poor throw from Rumman Raees and Dwayne Bravo fell to a flatter Imad delivery for 11 after the tide of wickets was briefly stemmed.
Samuels’ show of defiance ensured the Windies did not completely collapse, but his pedestrian 59-ball innings was nowhere near enough to give the visitors a defendable total.
Debutant Kesrick Williams claimed the wickets of both Sharjeel Khan (11) and Khalid Latif (21) to leave Pakistan on 40-2 but Malik, who hit four boundaries and a six in 34 balls, and Babar Azam’s unbeaten 27 from 24 deliveries guided Pakistan to an easy win.
(Omnisport.com)
WEST INDIES innings
J. Charles b Imad Wasim 5
A. Fletcher run-out 9
C. Walton b Imad Wasim 0
M. Samuels not out 42
DJ Bravo b Imad Wasim 11
N. Pooran c Shoaib Malik b M. Nawaz 16
K. Pollard not out 16
Extras: (lb-3, w-1) 4
Total: (5 wickets; 20 overs) 103
Fall of wickets 1-12, 2-12, 3-17, 4-31, 5-66.
Bowling: Wasim 4-1-21-3, Tanvir 4-0-22-0, Nawaz 3-0-16-1 (w-1), Amir 4-0-20-0, Malik 2-0-11-0, Raees 3-0-10-0.
PAKISTAN innings
Sharjeel Khan c Fletcher b Williams 11
Khalid Latif b Williams 21
Babar Azam not out 27
Shoaib Malik not out 43
Extras: (lb-4, w-2) 6
Total: (2 wickets, 15.1 overs) 108
Fall of wickets 1-36, 2-40.
Bowling: Taylor 2-0-19-0 (w-1), Williams 4-0-15-2,(w-1), DJ Bravo 4-0-31-0, Narine 4-0-21-0, Brathwaite 1.1-0-18-0.
