WI vs PAK 2nd Test Dream11 prediction: Best picks for West Indies vs Pakistan match in Jamaica
It’s tough to win a session in four overs,
but West Indies did just that on opening morning at Sabina Park,
dismissing Pakistan’s top three batsmen to reduce Pakistan to three down for two runs.
The embryonic Pakistan comeback that followed, led by skipper
Babar Azam ensured there was no further bloodletting until lunchtime, but his 60-run stand with
Fawad Alam will need to be significantly extend
if Pakistan is to regain parity.
After winning the toss, Kraigg Brathwaite had no hesitation in sending Pakistan’s troubled top order into bat, and it was clear why inside 10 minutes.
Abid Ali just lasted three deliveries, pushing at one from
Kemar Roach at the fourth stump line with disappointing familiarity, edging to Jermaine Blackwood in the slips.
Roach’s second victim, Azhar Ali, fell for a duck in a similar fashion, with the ball brushing
the outer edge and allowing the safe Joshua da Silva to do the job.
Inducing the unfortunate Imran Butt into a forward defensive poke that, on review, was found to have touched the outside edge, Jayden Seales added to Pakistan’s agony.
This would be Pakistan’s joint-worst Test match start in history, apart from Irfan Pathan’s historic first-over hat-trick in Karachi.
If it was the bottom, Azam and Alam utilized it as a strong enough foundation to start the rebuilding process.
Early on, both appeared vulnerable against Seales and Roach’s unstoppable
seam bowling, but the Pakistan skipper sought to break free via aggressiveness.
His first runs came on a mistimed swipe over point, and batting seemed to have gotten easier for Pakistan’s top batsmen from there.
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Alzarri Joseph was greeted with successive
boundaries off his first two deliveries, and he refused to let them settle as the West Indies rotated their five fast bowlers.
Even though he finished approximately the same score as his captain, Alam’s journey was more difficult.
Three of his four boundaries came off thick edges to the slips, and he seemed especially susceptible around his off stump, with Jason Holder and Roach, in particular, hitting his outside edge on a lot of occasions.
However, with survival as the main objective after the circumstances that brought the two together, Pakistan will consider the last hour and 50 minutes of the session a success.
WI vs PAK 2nd Test Dream11 prediction: Best picks for West Indies vs Pakistan match in Jamaica
