Kingston: West Indies ruffled the victory of the pulsating goal over Pakistan on Sunday when the visitors were destroyed themselves in the last session of the fourth day when on track to take the first two-match series test in Sabina Park.
Maintaining a simple target of 168 after they were dismissed in the morning session for 103, Shaheen Shah Afridi led the attack with four for 50 in reducing the home team to 114 for tea with only Wicketkeeper-Batsman Joshua da Silva and the remaining tailers.
However, in a scene that reminded the loss of one similar goal in the series Determination Test 2000 in Antigua, Pakistan lost discipline in the bowling and their calm in the field.
Three catches are passed to allow Roach and the last man Jayden Sealing to bring their team to the target with the last goal partnership 17.
Roach, who was dropped twice, crashed into the victory from Hasan Ali to complete unbeaten at 30.
Ironically, it was Hasan Skip the catch directly at the deep-off Shaheen square foot which allowed the roach to complete the job in the end with the Jubilant Seales.
Seales named Man of the Match for the match eight for 125 which included five for 55 in the second round.
For a fast bowler, which was less than a month from his 20th birthday, it was a historic achievement when he cleaned the Pakistani tail with the last three goals to be the youngest – who had taken five goals in the test round for West Indies.
“I just decided to take step by step, walked by running,” Roach R minutes were relieved after fully what the task was impossible when he joined Da Silva at the start of playing after tea.
“This is easily the most important round I have ever played and credit for Jayden also to survive with me at the end and for the five-goal haul today because he is someone who is truly special as a fast young bowler.” Pakistani captain Babar Azam does it well to hide his disappointment but cannot avoid reference errors that are clearly expensive when most important.
“This is the beauty of the test cricket.
Our bowler is really good especially Shaheen and Abbas,” said the captain, eliminating to mention three Wickets taken by Hasan in the drive for victory.
“If we take the catch the results can be different.” A juicy Topsy day began with Pakistan losing their last five goal for 35 to leave West Indies with what seemed to be a difficult target.
Apart from the success of Seales with the ball, the main goal of Babar was claimed by Kyle Mayers.
The all-rounder has a little else to be entertained on the day before a dramatic victory was achieved when he experienced an insult of ‘partner’ with the weakness of batting West Indies once again exposing both sides of the fourth-run goal partnership.
between Jermaine Blackwood and Roston Chase.
Blackwood arranged with a score of 55 and Chase reached 22, the dismissal for Faheem Ashraf In mid-afternoon tilting the balance of the contest once again in the way of Pakistan.
Ironically, considering the rash of errors in the field that must be followed in the last session, tourists claim four-goal in the post-lunch period, three of them were taken by Imran Butt in Second Slip.
His efforts to dismiss Blackwood were very impressive, emphasizing his belief and was sure of diving in the front opening partner Abid Ali at the first slip to ensnare the opportunity.
Pakistani opportunities that were missed were detrimental to Shaheen’s extraordinary efforts, which were completed with eight goals in the match.
He sets West Indies at the foot behind at the start of pursuit with goalkeeper Kieran Powell, captain Kraigg Brathwaite and Nkrumah Bonner, returned in the last session to take into account Da Silva and broke the harsh partnership with a roach.
But it was all in vain with Pakistan just blaming themselves when they looked towards the second and last test in the same place starting on Friday.