Congratulations: Pakistan win first ever Test Series on West Indies Soil

Domnica (May 15, 2017):Pakistan claimed their first ever series win in the West Indies while sending off Misbah and Younis with a series win.

An unbroken 53-run seventh-wicket partnership between Roston Chase and Jason Holder frustrated Pakistan´s push for a series-clinching victory with the West Indies holding on at 146 for six at tea on the last day of the third and final Test at Windsor Park in Dominica on Sunday.

Set an improbable target of 304 and starting the final day at seven for one, all looked lost for the home side when Shane Dowrich became Yasir Shah´s fourth wicket of the innings to make the score 93 for six in mid-afternoon.

However Chase, the leading run-scorer on both sides in the series, found a resilient partner in Holder on the way to his fourth score in excess of 50 in the series. He will resume on 66 in the final session of the match with the West Indies captain on 22.

With as much as two-and-a-half hours´ play still available and the hosts´ tail-enders not expected to offer substantial resistance, Pakistan remain favoured to give the retiring pair of captain Misbah ul Haq and senior batsman Younis Khanan historic farewell unless Chase and Holder can extend their partnership deep into the last period of play.

Pakistan have yet to win a Test series in the West Indies after seven previous tours dating back to 1958.

Resuming after lunch at 73 for four, a swift end to the match looked likely as Vishaul Singh and Dowrich both fell to Shah, lifting the leg-spinner´s wicket tally in the series to 24, equalling his previous best effort which was achieved against Sri Lanka.

Both were taken at short-leg by Babar Azam and on a pitch offering turn and bounce, it appeared only a matter of time before more wickets fell.

But Chase and Holder batted with calm assurance for over an hour as the Pakistanis grew increasingly impatient in pursuit of the breakthrough.

Such anxieties appeared unlikely at the start of the day.

Having already lost the wicket of Kieran Powell overnight, the home side suffered two further setbacks inside the first hour of the morning.

Kraigg Brathwaite´s poor run of form continued when the opening batsman miscued an attempted cut off Shah for Hasan Ali to take the comfortable catch at backward-point while Shimron Hetmyer batted positively for 25 but was then comprehensively bowled by Mohammad Amir for the third time in the series.

Chase, the first innings top-scorer, then joined Shai Hope with the pair defying all the challenges presented to them by the Pakistani attack until Hasan Ali got the breakthrough and his first Test wicket 20 minutes before lunch, trapping Hope leg-before with a full-length inswinger.

Score Board:

	Pakistan 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Azhar Ali	b Chase	127	490	334	8	2	38.02
	Shan Masood	c Holder b Chase	9	60	30	0	0	30.00
	Babar Azam	c Powell b Joseph	55	176	124	3	0	44.35
	Younis Khan	lbw b Holder	18	113	75	1	0	24.00
	Misbah-ul-Haq*	c †Dowrich b Chase	59	226	148	6	1	39.86
	Asad Shafiq	c Singh b Chase	17	53	38	2	0	44.73
	Sarfraz Ahmed†	c Hope b Bishoo	51	115	73	4	0	69.86
	Mohammad Amir	b Holder	7	14	16	0	0	43.75
	Yasir Shah	c Powell b Holder	0	2	1	0	0	0.00
	Mohammad Abbas	st †Dowrich b Bishoo	4	74	43	0	0	9.30
	Hasan Ali	not out	8	10	5	2	0	160.00
	Extras	(b 4, lb 6, w 3, nb 8)	21
	Total	(all out; 146.3 overs)	376	(2.56 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	ST Gabriel	32	9	67	0	2.09	159	5	0	(7nb, 1w)
	AS Joseph	27	9	64	1	2.37	135	6	0
	RL Chase	32	5	103	4	3.21	138	6	3
	JO Holder	32	9	71	3	2.21	158	6	0	(1nb, 2w)
	D Bishoo	23.3	3	61	2	2.59	105	3	0

	West Indies 1st innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	KC Brathwaite	c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah	29	190	123	1	0	23.57
	KOA Powell	c Azhar Ali b Yasir Shah	31	119	82	2	0	37.80
	SO Hetmyer	c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Yasir Shah	17	21	18	1	1	94.44
	SD Hope	c Misbah-ul-Haq b Azhar Ali	29	174	116	2	0	25.00
	RL Chase	b Mohammad Abbas	69	228	155	5	0	44.51
	VA Singh	lbw b Mohammad Abbas	8	82	44	0	0	18.18
	SO Dowrich†	b Mohammad Amir	20	82	53	1	0	37.73
	JO Holder*	not out	30	140	87	3	1	34.48
	D Bishoo	c Younis Khan b Mohammad Abbas	0	3	1	0	0	0.00
	AS Joseph	b Mohammad Abbas	0	9	8	0	0	0.00
	ST Gabriel	c Babar Azam b Mohammad Abbas	0	15	6	0	0	0.00
	Extras	(b 4, lb 2, w 5, nb 3)	14
	Total	(all out; 115 overs)	247	(2.14 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Mohammad Amir	27	12	32	1	1.18	142	1	0	(1w)
	Mohammad Abbas	25	7	46	5	1.84	123	3	0	(2w)
	Yasir Shah	40	4	126	3	3.15	176	11	2
	Hasan Ali	17	4	22	0	1.29	89	0	0	(3nb, 2w)
	Azhar Ali	6	1	15	1	2.50	23	0	0

	Pakistan 2nd innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Azhar Ali	c sub (J Blackwood) b Gabriel	3	16	9	0	0	33.33
	Shan Masood	lbw b Gabriel	21	112	68	1	0	30.88
	Babar Azam	c Hetmyer b Chase	0	22	10	0	0	0.00
	Younis Khan	c Powell b Bishoo	35	115	73	3	0	47.94
	Misbah-ul-Haq*	c †Dowrich b Bishoo	2	24	14	0	0	14.28
	Asad Shafiq	c & b Joseph	13	45	36	1	0	36.11
	Sarfraz Ahmed†	c †Dowrich b Joseph	4	13	6	0	0	66.66
	Mohammad Amir	c Bishoo b Joseph	27	94	69	3	0	39.13
	Yasir Shah	not out	38	85	55	2	1	69.09
	Hasan Ali	not out	15	6	6	1	1	250.00
	Extras	(lb 5, w 7, nb 4)	16
	Total	(8 wickets dec; 57 overs)	174	(3.05 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	ST Gabriel	10	1	24	2	2.40	49	2	0	(2nb)
	AS Joseph	15	3	53	3	3.53	69	4	0	(3w)
	RL Chase	9	0	31	1	3.44	33	2	0
	JO Holder	9	4	7	0	0.77	48	0	0
	D Bishoo	14	2	54	2	3.85	58	3	2	(2nb)

	West Indies 2nd innings (target: 304 runs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	KC Brathwaite	c Hasan Ali b Yasir Shah	6	44	34	0	0	17.64
	KOA Powell	c Shan Masood b Yasir Shah	4	26	17	0	0	23.52
	SO Hetmyer	b Mohammad Amir	25	49	36	3	0	69.44
	SD Hope	lbw b Hasan Ali	17	88	54	2	0	31.48
	RL Chase	not out	101	366	239	12	1	42.25
	VA Singh	c Babar Azam b Yasir Shah	2	27	13	0	0	15.38
	SO Dowrich†	c Babar Azam b Yasir Shah	2	36	25	0	0	8.00
	JO Holder*	lbw b Hasan Ali	22	85	62	2	0	35.48
	D Bishoo	c Shan Masood b Mohammad Abbas	3	71	45	0	0	6.66
	AS Joseph	c †Sarfraz Ahmed b Hasan Ali	5	59	32	1	0	15.62
	ST Gabriel	b Yasir Shah	4	32	22	1	0	18.18
	Extras	(b 6, w 2, nb 3)	11
	Total	(all out; 96 overs)	202	(2.10 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ	0s	4s	6s
	Mohammad Amir	15	8	22	1	1.46	80	1	0	(2w)
	Mohammad Abbas	20	9	31	1	1.55	108	5	0	(2nb)
	Yasir Shah	37	13	92	5	2.48	175	9	1
	Hasan Ali	20	7	33	3	1.65	104	4	0	(1nb)
	Azhar Ali	2	0	3	0	1.50	9	0	0
	Asad Shafiq	2	0	15	0	7.50	4	2	0