Pakistan batsmen on Sunday extended their lead over West Indies, after their spinners put them ahead, on the third day of the first Test at the Multan Cricket Ground in Multan.
Pakistan ended the second day with a score of 109-3 batting Kamran Ghulam and Saud Shakeel, with the umpires calling for stumps after bad light stopped play.
Masood and Mohammad Hurairah got Pakistan’s second innings off to a blistering start with a 67-run opening partnership, before Hurairah (29) was trapped leg before wicket by Warrican, who also dismissed Babar Azam (5) later in similar fashion.
Captain Mesut looked to be on 52 but paid the price for hesitation on the run, as Kavim Hodge’s throw reached Warrican while Mesut was wide of the crease.
Earlier on Saturday, Pakistan spinners Sajid Khan and Noman Ali made the cut with the new ball, taking nine wickets between them to bowl out the Men’s side in the Maroons for 137 before skipper Shan Masood’s second-innings fifty helped the Green Shirts to a 202-run lead. . On the second day.
Ali’s five-wicket haul came after Khan’s devastating spell through the visitors’ top order, with the off-spinner taking four wickets in his first three overs to leave West Indies struggling at 22-4.
Pakistan used their spinners from the start after West Indies spinners Kevin Sinclair and Jomel Warrican claimed five scalps earlier in the day, with the hosts losing six wickets in 12 overs to end their first innings on 230.
Starting with an overnight score of 143-4, Pakistan lost their star strikers Saud Shakeel (84) and Mohammad Rizwan (71) to Sinclair as Warrican dismissed three more on a spin-friendly pitch.
But it was worse for the visitors, as Khan bowled openers Kraigg Brathwaite (11) and Mikel Lewis (1), with Casey Carty also falling in the same over for a golden duck.
“The ball was new… I was heading towards the wicket early, that’s why I conceded some runs,” Khan, who allowed 65 runs in his 12 overs, told reporters.
Warrican, who batted at number 10, provided the visitors’ best resistance with an unbeaten 31, building an innings-high 46-run partnership with Jayden Seals for the last wicket.
Seales, who hit three sixes on his way to 22, was the second highest contributor in the innings alongside the extras.
This is a developing story and will be updated with more details.