Yasir spins Pakistan to series win

Abu Dhabi, October 25

Leg-spinner Yasir Shah took six wickets to bowl out West Indies for 322 as Pakistan won the second Test by 133 runs and secured an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series.

Shah, who had taken two wickets in West Indies’ overnight 171/4, bowled almost unchanged from the start of the final day to claim four more victims in figures of 6/124, his eighth five-wicket haul and second 10-wicket haul in 18 Tests.

West Indies had banked on Roston Chase and Jermaine Blackwood putting up firm resistance but Shah accounted for both — Blackwood for 95 — plus Jason Holder to remove any chance of a shock result.

Shai Hope and Devendra Bishoo put on 45 for the eighth wicket before Yasir and Zulfiqar Bahar polished off the final three wickets in four overs. The third Test in Sharjah begins on Oct. 30.

Misbah disappointed at WI downfall

Skipper Misbah-ul-Haq showed disappointment over the downfall of once-mighty West Indies. The defeat is West Indies’ 19th in their last 29 Tests since November 2013, having won only four and drawn the remaining six. “That’s bit disappointing and if you see their strength in international cricket they were always a force but now they are having a downfall,” said Misbah after Pakistan’s victory. “They are a young side with some players performing well in bits and pieces at the moment. They will become a good side but at the moment they are lacking experience.”

Brief scores: Pakistan: 452 (Younis 127, Misbah 96, Gabriel 5/96) and 227/2 dec (Azhar 79, Shafiq 58*, Aslam 50); West Indies: 224 (Yasir 4/86, Rahat 3/45) and 322 (Blackwood 95, Brathwaite 67, Yasir 6/124). — Reuters