Tarouba [Trinidad and Tobago], August 13 (ANI): The West Indies have damaged a drought of 34 years with an emphatic 202-run series-clinching victory over Pakistan in Trinidad on Tuesday, in keeping with the ICC web site.
Skipper Shai Hope led from the entrance with an unbeaten innings of 120 to assist the West Indies put up 294/6, and pacer Jayden Seales collected six wickets in reply as Pakistan had been bundled out for simply 92 to make sure the house facet registered a 2-1 collection triumph.
It was the West Indies’ first bilateral ODI collection victory towards Pakistan since November 1991 and can give the facet loads of confidence as they try to earn a spot on the subsequent version of the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup in 2027 after they missed out on qualifying for the newest match in India in 2023.
The West Indies had regarded in bother when Gudakesh Motie fell for 5 within the forty second over and the rating at 184/6, however Hope and Justin Greaves (43 not out) mixed properly with some lofty late hitting to make sure the hosts posted an honest complete at Brian Lara Stadium.
It was Hope’s 18th ODI century of his profession and took him previous former nice Desmond Haynes (17) and into third place for probably the most ODI centuries by a West Indies males’s participant, with solely Chris Gayle (25) and Brian Lara (19) forward of him.
Seales then ripped by means of Pakistan’s top-order to depart the guests reeling at 23/4, and the in-form right-armer returned on the dying to scrub up the tail to complete with the third-best figures (6/18) by a West Indies bowler within the historical past of males’s ODI cricket.
It was additionally the fourth-largest victory (by runs) by the West Indies in males’s ODI cricket, and Hope mentioned there have been loads of positives for his facet to take from the match and the collection.
‘We had an entire sport and I’m extraordinarily pleased with us beating Pakistan after so lengthy,’ Hope mentioned. We stress on negatives quite a bit within the West Indies and there are such a lot of positives to shout about and it was nice to see the fellows pulling off historical past.’
Seales was adjudged Participant of the Sequence for his 10 wickets throughout the three matches, and Hope praised the younger pacer.
‘Seales is a high quality bowler…he is a category act. Something you ask him to do, he places his fingers up. He is at his finest throughout codecs,’ Hope added. (ANI)
