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Roseau (Dominica), Pakistan’s Mohammad Abbas claimed his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket to trigger a West Indies first-innings collapse to 247 all out before lunch on the fourth day of the third and final Test at Windsor Park in Dominica.
However, the tourists lost two early wickets in seeking to build on a first-innings lead of 129 and will resume after the interval at 8/2 in their second turn at the crease, an overall advantage of 137 runs with eight wickets in hand.
Increasingly impressive in his first Test series, Abbas took the last four wickets of the innings for three runs in a four-over spell after an early breakthrough from fellow pacer Mohammad Amir to finish with the excellent figures of 5/46 off 25 disciplined overs. West Indies’ tumble of lower-order wickets from the overnight 218/5 and Pakistan’s second-innings setbacks were in stark contrast to the tedious progress of the match.
The two teams had combined for a pedestrian scoring rate of under two-and-a-half runs per over as only 15 wickets fell over the first three days.
Amir raised the visitors’ hopes of earning a potentially decisive first-innings lead when he removed Shane Dowrich on just the fourth ball of the day as the wicketkeeper-batsman’s lazy stab outside the off-stump dragged the ball back onto his stumps without any addition to the overnight score.
Brief scores: Pakistan: 376 and 8/2 (Masood 5*); West Indies: 249 (Chase 69; Abbas 5/46).
