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Sunday, November 24, 2024  
21 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446  

West Indies beat Pakistan again but lose 3-2 in series

West Indies secured a second successive victory with a 10-wicket rout in Guyana as Pakistan finished 3-2 winners in the one-day international series.

Pakistan chose to bat but were 139 all out in 41.2 overs, Ravi Rampaul taking two wickets in an over in his 4-45.

Only opener Mohammad Hafeez (55) defied with six fours in his 10th ODI fifty.

Lendl Simmons fired seven fours and three sixes in 77 from 73 balls, with Kirk Edwards on 40 from 71 as the Windies won with 159 balls remaining.

Hafeez pulled the first ball of the match from Rampaul for four and with two more off the seamer in the seventh over had 22 to his name with the score on 31-1.

Usman Salahuddin and Misbah-ul-Haq departed in successive overs before Umar Akmal struck the only six of the innings when he launched spinner Devendra Bishoo down the ground.

Hafeez was dismissed in the 29th over, the fourth Pakistan wicket to fall, when a delivery from Darren Sammy kept low, took the bottom edge and crashed into the stumps to give the West Indies captain his third wicket.

Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi was out for nine to a brutal delivery from Rampaul that lifted from just short of a length and the innings ended when Junaid Khan fell over playing across the line to Dwayne Bravo and was lbw, giving the all-rounder a second wicket in as many overs.

The Windies had six overs before the lunch break due because of the foreshortened first innings and calmly accumulated 34 without major alarm, Edwards surviving a difficult chance to wicketkeeper Mohammad Salman off the inside edge from the bowling of Afridi when on six.

Simmons, who also top-scored in the fourth match of the series, also gave a tough chance, this time to Hafeez at slip when on 31, but the flashing cut was struck so fiercely that it went for four.

He lofted Hafeez over square-leg for six, then in successive overs deposited Afridi over wide long-on for six more and hit a searing flat pull for six off left-arm seamer Wahab Riaz.

The talented opener from Trinidad & Tobago completed his sixth ODI half century as the Windies recorded their first 10-wicket success since July 2007.