- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR4.4 hit uppishly and straight to mid on! Full, on middle, looks to hammer it over the infield, but it's come off the toe-end of the bat. A fist pump for Holder, and Sharjeel is gone for a 16-ball 20. 46/114.2 nurdled to the onside, but is that a direct hit? If the bails have been legally dislodged that's out. It is! Rizwan is the man to depart four shy of his half-century, and the partnership is broken 113/216.1 West Indies reviewed for a nick behind but the umpire was fairly confident. There's a spike when the ball passes the bat's but the bat's made contact with the ground too. Anyhow, the umpire thinks there was bat on it, too. Babar not happy at all, but he's got to go 134/317.6 yet another wicket for Bravo, this time it's Fakhar Zaman. Wide slower ball, the tactic they'd been frustrating the life out of Fakhar with. He tried to slog it over extra cover, only to find the fielder 145/517.5 banged into the pitch; Hafeez thought it was in the zone to smash over midwicket. Gets no timing on it, with the ball scooping up to Haydn Walsh Jnr at the boundary. Hafeez's wretched run continues and Pakistan slide further 145/418.4 another slog, another wicket. This time Hasan Ali finds the long-off fielder, and if Bravo's not taking the wickets he's taking the catches. Straight into his hands and West Indies' bowlers stranglehold over this innings continues 150/618.5 would you believe it, Shepherd's taken a blinder of a catch! This looked for all the world like it would clear long-on but Shepherd moved back and just struck out a paw, the ball nestling inside securely. His captain Pollard would have been proud of that catch 150/719.6 magnificent from Bravo. Another yorked squeezed back down the ground. Shadab scuttled back for two, but the keeper whipped the bails off just in time so they'll only get one for that. Pakistan finish with 157 and it's West Indies on top at the halfway mark 157/8Extras8 (b 1, lb 2, nb 1, w 4)TOTAL157/8 (20 Overs, RR: 7.85)Fall of wickets: 1-46 (Sharjeel Khan, 4.4 ov), 2-113 (Mohammad Rizwan, 14.2 ov), 3-134 (Babar Azam, 16.1 ov), 4-145 (Mohammad Hafeez, 17.5 ov), 5-145 (Fakhar Zaman, 17.6 ov), 6-150 (Hasan Ali, 18.4 ov), 7-150 (Sohaib Maqsood, 18.5 ov), 8-157 (Shadab Khan, 19.6 ov)
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR0.2 past the outside edge! And he strikes second ball. Simmons' replacement Fletcher goes for zero. Fullish, just outside off, and Fletcher presses forward to defend it will turn. But it goes straight through, past the edge, and knocks the stump back 0/113.6 and even when they get ahold of one, fortune goes against them. That was hammered back down the ground, only for it to smash into the non-striker's stumps. The asking rate close to 14 76/35.6 ends the powerplay with a bang! Gayle looks to go aggressive off the last ball, by trying to hammer this full ball over mid on. Plays the ball as if it would angle in a bit more, but it doesn't. Past the outside edge, and stumps knocked back 31/211.5 he's cleaned up - Pakistan are suffocating West Indies brilliantly.. It was at the stumps once more, a you-miss-I-hit kind of ball, and as he tried to clobber it over cow corner, the ball cannoned into middle stump instead 70/319.2 leading edge to deep extra cover, and Mohammad Wasim Jnr takes a simple catch. Importantly, it's a dot ball for Pakistan, but even more importantly, Pooran is on strike for WI. 18 off four and you'd imagine he has to face all four now 140/4Extras7 (lb 3, w 4)TOTAL150/4 (20 Overs, RR: 7.5)Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Andre Fletcher, 0.2 ov), 2-31 (Chris Gayle, 5.6 ov), 3-70 (Shimron Hetmyer, 11.5 ov), 3-76* (Evin Lewis, retired not out ), 4-140 (Kieron Pollard, 19.2 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Mohammad Hafeez 4 1 6 1 1.50 19 0 0 0 0 Shaheen Shah Afridi 4 0 44 1 11.00 10 5 2 1 0 Hasan Ali 4 0 32 1 8.00 7 0 3 0 0 Shadab Khan 4 0 22 0 5.50 7 1 0 1 0 Usman Qadir 1 0 11 0 11.00 1 0 1 1 0 Mohammad Wasim(1) 3 0 32 1 10.66 6 1 3 1 0
Match Details
Toss
West Indies , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
Pakistan led the 4-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Match days
31 July 2021 (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Match Notes
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 55 runs, 1 wicket)
- Pakistan: 50 runs in 5.1 overs (32 balls), Extras 5
- Over 8.4: Review by West Indies (Bowling), Umpire - PA Gustard, Batter - Babar Azam (Struck down)
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 47 balls (Mohammad Rizwan 19, Babar Azam 30, Ex 1)
- Pakistan: 100 runs in 12.6 overs (79 balls), Extras 5
- Babar Azam: 50 off 38 balls (4 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Rain: Pakistan - 134/2 in 16.0 overs (Babar Azam 51, Fakhar Zaman 10)
- Over 16.1: Review by West Indies (Bowling), Umpire - PA Gustard, Batter - Babar Azam (Upheld)
- ADS Fletcher kept in place of N Pooran from 17.5 overs of Pakistan innings
- Over 18.2: Review by West Indies (Bowling), Umpire - PA Gustard, Batter - Sohaib Maqsood (Struck down - Umpires Call)
- Pakistan: 150 runs in 18.3 overs (112 balls), Extras 7
- Innings Break: Pakistan - 157/8 in 20.0 overs (Mohammad Wasim (1) 1)
- Powerplay: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 31 runs, 2 wickets)
- West Indies: 50 runs in 8.6 overs (54 balls), Extras 4
- E Lewis retired hurt at 76/3 (35, 13.6 overs)
- West Indies: 100 runs in 15.4 overs (94 balls), Extras 6
- 4th Wicket: 50 runs in 26 balls (N Pooran 41, KA Pollard 10, Ex 3)
- N Pooran: 50 off 28 balls (3 x 4, 5 x 6)
- West Indies: 150 runs in 19.6 overs (120 balls), Extras 7
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