Pakistan beat West Indies for T20 series win

Published September 24, 2016
Pakistan's players celebrate taking a wicket during the T20I match with West Indies. —AFP
Pakistan's players celebrate taking a wicket during the T20I match with West Indies. —AFP
Samuel Badree celebrates with his teammate Sunil Narine. —AFP
Samuel Badree celebrates with his teammate Sunil Narine. —AFP
West Indies' wicketkeeper Andre Fletcher celebrates as Pakistan's Sharjeel Khan reacts after he was bowled out during the second T20I match. —AFP
West Indies' wicketkeeper Andre Fletcher celebrates as Pakistan's Sharjeel Khan reacts after he was bowled out during the second T20I match. —AFP

DUBAI: Pakistan outclassed world champions the West Indies by 16 runs in the second Twenty20 match in Dubai on Saturday to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series.

Pakistan scored 160-4 in their 20 overs after they were sent in to bat with skipper Sarfraz Ahmed (46 not out), Khalid Latif (40) and Shoaib Malik (37) amongst the runs.

They then restricted the West Indies to 144-9 with left-arm paceman Sohail Tanvir taking 3-13, also completing 50 wickets in the shortest format. Medium pacer Hasan Ali grabbed 3-49.

Andre Fletcher made 29 while Sunil Narine top-scored with 30 for the West Indies.

Pakistan won the first match — also in Dubai — by nine wickets on Friday.

Both teams kept the same eleven from Friday's first match which Pakistan won by nine wickets.

The third and final match will be played in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.

Teams

Pakistan: Sarfraz Ahmed (capt), Khalid Latif, Sharjeel Khan, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Babar Azam, Mohammad Nawaz, Imad Wasim, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Sohail Tanvir

West Indies: Carlos Brathwaite (capt), Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Evin Lewis,Sunil Narine, Kieron Pollard, Nicholas Pooran, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor

Opinion

Editorial

A turbulent 2023
12 May, 2024

A turbulent 2023

PAKISTAN faced a tumultuous year in 2023 marked by severe economic distress and a sharp erosion of civil liberties....
A moral victory
12 May, 2024

A moral victory

AS the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly voted on Friday in favour of granting Palestine greater rights at the...
Hope after defeat
12 May, 2024

Hope after defeat

ON Saturday, having fallen behind Japan in the first quarter of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup final, Pakistan showed...
Taxing pensions
Updated 11 May, 2024

Taxing pensions

Tax reforms have failed to deliver because of distortions created by the FBR bureaucracy through SROs, apparently for personal gains.
Orwellian slide
11 May, 2024

Orwellian slide

IN recent years, Pakistan has made several attempts at introducing an overarching mechanism through which to check...
Terror against girls
11 May, 2024

Terror against girls

ONCE again, the ogre of terrorism is seeking the sacrifice of schoolgirls. On Wednesday, just days after the...