Pakistan beat West Indies in the warmup game by 7 wickets. Chasing the target of 131, Pakistan captain Babar Azam played excellent innings of 50 of 41 balls. Fakar u zaman finished the game with huge six.
Clinical from Pakistan. Their bowlers were on the money from the word go and never offered any freebies to the top-order WI batters. Pollard’s last over blitz ensured a respectable total but that wasn’t sufficient. The two run-machines at the top of the order got them off to a brisk start. After losing Rizwan in the final over of the powerplay, Fakhar Zaman came out all guns blazing. Captain Babar did what he does always – compiled a fluent fifty. Hayden Walsh bowled an ordinary first over but came back strongly to nip out Azam and Hafeez off successive deliveries in his second. The leggie’s fortunes went downhill post that as Zaman and Malik toyed with him and took their team home with no further setbacks. Has Zaman sealed the No. 3 spot with this knock? Pakistan will be pleased with this win.
