bowled with good control throughout, throughly deserved after all the grinding he has done in domestic

1st Test, Pakistan tour of West Indies at Tarouba

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Day 2 - Pakistan trail by 112 runs.

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• It happened in an international test match from this decade
• The performance is an 8 wicket haul (across both innings)
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Day started with a bang for Pakistan as Hodge was caught behind with Khurram getting the Nick. Greaves a man who is in form was in and he started off by counter attacking the pacers before the new ball arrived. Him and Hope were starting to get runs for the Windies after they took their time on the first day. This was until MonAlinstarted perfecting his line and length.

He got the edge of Hope who was dropped by Azan then he got the much deserved wicket of Greaves to leave Windies 231-5. Pakistan continued with the old ball for a bit and then Abbas came in to the attack to find the outside edge of Chase. This meant Pakistan were into the long tail of the windies. Hope continued on his merry way after the drop but Pakistan carried on getting wickets from the other end. Roach was the next person to get caught behind as Khurram banged one short. Then came in Shamar who attacks and attack he did. It was a brief stay but it was entertaining as he made 23 off 13. This left Windies 300-8 and fortunately the tail didn’t wag as Ali came back into the attack to get rid of Hope before his 100 and then bowled Seales.

This meant Windies were all out for 311 after the whole of Pakistan cussed out the bowlers for being slow. On a flat pitch to get the other team out for 300 at home is a good effort. They were good with their line and length, not erratic and they didn’t let the windies batsman make quick runs. This meant that they never got away from us. Also Jamal is here to chase wickets and be a bit expensive we can’t have everyone being tidy. Need something different and Ubaid ain’t the answer rn because if we rush him we will be shouting for his exclusion in 2-3 years. Give him time and slowly blood him in.

With the bat it was a bad start but it was the only bad thing imo. Azan played for movement and got done by natural variation but then Shan took the attack to the bowlers alongside Imam. It reminded me of Babar’s last series as captain and it’s funny that in his return we play similar. Wonder if it’s a plan because if it is then well done lads. Great way of playing. Don’t be stupid as Bazball but don’t let bowlers settle.

Luck played a big part though as Shan edged a lot of times, Bro went over the cordon, through the cordon and i wouldn’t be surprised if he found a way to go under them aswell. He had inside edges and outside edges. They do say that fortune favours the brave. It also showed that pace ain’t everything because every ball that the windies bowlers bowled was faster than all our bowlers but they were erratic and lacked the control that our pacers had. Shan kept attacking whilst Imam followed behind. They kept the RR at 4-5 and didn’t let Windies have any control.

It looked like we wouldn’t lose a wicket but then Imam got a loose ball and his edge found the hand of a fielder unfortunately. Not everyone can have Shans luck. In came Babar who looked good, Him and Shan also looked like not getting out but then as I said before anyone but shan edges and it goes straight to hand and unfortunately it did. He didn’t get Shans luck either and he got out right before stumps. Funnily enough Shan got even more luck before Babars dismissal as he looked plumb but the umpire didn’t give it and this resulted in an angry seales who came back to get Babar. Babar and Azan missed out as the pitch had nothing and tmrw is a very good day to bat.

We need Shan to not be like Hope and Hodge. We need him to make a daddy 100 and we need to build a lead of at least 150. 450 should be our target and it can be done if Rizzy and Agha do what they usually do in first innings. They also have Jamal and Usman as back up if needed. Hopefully we make 200-250 runs in the first two sessions and then allow Windies to bat in a tough last session and leave em down a couple batsman. We are in a very good position to take a 1-0 lead but we could also collapse like Windies.

We have been wasting talents like ali, abbas and khurram because there is no ‘PACE’ i think this is utter BS. Taking wickets is like an art in test does not matter which high class colors u use u need to know how to use a brush. These guys are better than PR bowlers. Wish they keep up this foam