da roleta： Bourda, Guyana – A definite pattern has developed after two days ofthe first Cable & Wireless Test between Pakistan and West Indies
da jogodeouro： 07-May-2000Bourda, Guyana – A definite pattern has developed after two days ofthe first Cable & Wireless Test between Pakistan and West Indies.The West Indies, 101 for three when fading light halted the second dayseven overs before schedule, are 187 short of Pakistan’s first innings288 and already finding Mushtaq Ah-med’s tantalising mixture ofleg-breaks and googlies a handful.Committed to batting last by Jimmy Adams’ justifiable gamble onwinning the toss, they ideally need to bat through the third day,compile over 300 and limit the time they will have to bat and the runsthey will have to make second time round.It demands significant innings from Adams himself and ShivnarineChanderpaul, the two most seasoned batsmen in their inexperienced andunproven order, who resume their difficult assignment this morning.Committed to their traditional all-pace attack on a slow, flat pitch,the West Indies effectively used defensive tactics to restrictPakistan to 67 runs from 37.2 overs yesterday as their remaining fivewickets could only convert their first day 221 for five to 288 allout.Pakistan responded with their powerful combination of speed, swing andspin that brought 934 Test wickets between them into the match. Theyclaimed an early wicket when Sherwin Campbell’s careless stab wassnapped up by Younis Khan inches from the ground at second slip offWasim Akram and then, after nine overs, had Mushtaq wheeling away forthe rest of the afternoon through 17 cionsecutive overs from theRegent Street end.Three catchers huddled around in such proximity they could reach outand touch the batsmen, there was the now routine theatrical appealingfor lbws and close catches and Mushtaq reacted to almost every ball asif it should have claimed a wicket.At the opposite end, captain Moin Khan revolved the varied pace of theleft-arm Akram, the right-arm Abdur Razzaq and Waqar Younis and theoff-spin of Saqlain Mushtaq.After an encouragingly positive second-wicket partnership of 67between Adrian Griffith and Wavell Hinds, the first two of eightconsecutive left-handers, the going became increasingly tough for WestIndies.Griffith, straighter in his stance than usual, took a particular fancyto Younis, three times driving him through mid-off and straight forfours and slapping him to point for another when he pitched short.The best of Hinds’ five boundaries was a sweet drive throughextra-cover. Three were off Mushtaq against whom he was never atease.Their stand ended when Razzaq removed Griffith lbw for 34 in a spellthat gave the batsmen no respite. Hinds’ tortured time against Mushtaqended ten runs later when he missed an expansive drive and was soswiftly stumped by Moin Khan, it required eight replays of thetelevision footage for third umpire Colin Alfred to press the redlight.Twenty minutes earlier, a leg-break had hit the top of his off-stumpbut, for the second time in the day, mysteriously did not remove thebail. Waqar had similarly escaped on a deflection from his boot offWalsh at the tailend of the Pakistan innings.In spite of the generosity of five more missed chances, Pakistan couldnot capitalise on the record sixth-wicket partnership betweenInzamam-ul-Haq and Razzaq that had pulled them from the depths of 39for five an hour and 20 minutes into the opening day.West Indies, deliberately defending from the start in spite of a ballonly one over old, removed the dangerous Inzamam for 135 after an hourand 20 minutes.Inzamam’s six-and-three-quarter hours of high-quality batsmanship,during which he stroked 20 boundaries in all directions for his tenthhundred in his 62nd Test, was ended by Reon King’s first ball of theday, a late inswinger that struck him as he came forward.Inzamam’s stand with Razzaq was worth 206, the highest for the wicketfor Pakistan in the 35 Tests between the teams.Razzaq, 80 overnight, seemed overcome by the prospect of a maidenhundred in his fourth Test and, virtually strokeless, was restrictedto seven runs off the 79 balls he received for the day.When he attempted to break free after lunch, he edged Nixon McLean tofirst slip, after which the innings subsided meekly with anotherwicket to Walsh, McLean and Curtly Ambrose.West Indies would have ended things earlier but for their ineptcatching.Walsh allowed Inzamam, dropped on 32 a day earlier, his second escapeat 121 when he couldn’t hold on to a return. Razzaq was twice put downat 82.It added up to seven misses – generosity no team can afford, least ofall one batting last.
