Rehman, Ajmal spin Pakistan to 196-run win as two-Test series ends 1-all

May 25, 2011 Sports

By Sean Devers in St Kitts
In association with Digicel, Queensway & Leisure Inn

In the sunshine of St Kitts the Pakistan spinners made merry on a last day pitch offering prodigious turn to level the two-Test Digicel series with an emphatic 196-run win against the West Indies 17 minutes before Lunch yesterday.
Set a world record 427 to win, West Indies began the fifth day on 130-5 and after losing Brendon Nash to Man-of-the Series, off-spinner Saeed Ajmal in the day’s third over before he had added to his overnight 30, crashed 230 all out with over two sessions to spare.
Darren Sammy, with just 47 runs from his previous seven Test innings as Captain, looked positive in hitting six fours before he fell to Ajmal when seven away from his highest Test score of 48 and his demise, which followed that of Carlton Baugh (18) left the West Indies on 193-8 and heading to their 16th defeat against Pakistan in 46 Tests. Pakistan have lost 15 times while the other 15 matches have ended in draws.
Left-arm spinner Abdur Rehman had a career best 4-65 while Ajmal, who continued to befuddle batsmen with his big turning off-breaks and eyebrow raising Doosras, took 3-79 to finish the series with 17 scalps.
Scores: Pak 272 & 377, WI 223 & 230.
The skies were clear and blue with no signs of rain visible as West Indies began the final day with the daunting task of getting 297 more to win with just five wickets in hand.
With Nash on 30 and Baugh on seven, the realistic plan by the hosts must have been to prolong the innings for as long as possible.
But the left-handed Nash who scored a century in his last Test here last year in a double century partnership with Shiv Chanderpaul against South Africa, edged a viciously turning off-break from Ajmal to slip to leave the score on 135-6.
Sammy joined Baugh to take the score to 171 before Baugh was leg before to Rehman as the ‘not out’ decision by Umpire Billy Bowden was overturned by the referral.
Sammy looked to play forward as much as possible and grew in confidence after stroking Rehman deliberately over mid-off for a one-bounce boundary.
The only St Lucian to play International cricket then drove Rehman delightfully to the cover boundary and clipped Ajmal for four behind square to the approval of the handful of fans in the working day crowd.
Roach, who has showed good technique and common sense with the bat in the lower order in this series, supported his captain who looked to be positive.
But once Sammy was taken at short mid-wicket by Misbah Ul Haq, the contest was all but done although Ravi Rampaul hit two fours and two sixes in a cameo 22-ball 20.
A positive from the disappointing West Indies batting in this series, is the level-headed work of the tail-enders and Roach and Rampaul added 34 for the 10th wicket before he fell to a sharp reflex catch at silly mid-off by Umar Akmal as he drove hard at Ajmal at 227-9.
Roach (12) was then run out by a direct hit to the non-strikers’ end as he ambled back to his crease after last man Devendra Bishoo (1*) refused a call for a single to short fine-leg.
The Digicel home series resumes on June 4 in Trinidad when West Indies play India in the one-off T20 at the Queens Park Oval from 10:00hrs before the five match ODI series and three Test matches begin.
Scores: Pakistan 272 (Ali 67, Akmal 56, Tanvir 57, Rampaul 3-68) and 377 for 6 dec (Taufeeq 135, Misbah 102*) beat West Indies 223 (Samuels 57, Hafeez 3-23) and 230 (Bravo 50, Rehman 4-65) by 196 runs.

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