Internet Desk: Leg spinner Yasir Shah took 10 wickets to guide Pakistan to a series win against West Indies in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. Misbah ul Haq’s team defeated the West Indies by 133 runs to achieve a clean sweep in series having won the ODI series earlier this month.
Jermaine Blackwood’s fighting 95 runs went in vain as he failed to guide his team to a draw.
Yasir Shah, who had a match haul of 10 wickets, was adjudged the Man of the Match. The leg spinner captured 5-105 in the second innings to get his eighth five-wicket haul.
Pakistan set the Caribbean a daunting total of 456 runs to win the second test.
West Indies middle order batsman Blackwood defied Pakistan’s spin-cum-pace attack in the first session by adding 63 for the fifth wicket with Roston Chase (20) and another 57 with Hope for the sixth to counter a weary fifth day pitch.
When it seemed Blackwood would complete his second Test hundred, Shah produced a beautiful delivery which kept straight and hit the batsman’s pad, dislodging the stumps.
Blackwood hit 11 boundaries during his enterprising 127-ball stay.
Shah then trapped Jason Holder leg before for 16 to complete his five-wicket haul, the second in the series.
Resuming at 171-4 West Indian pair Blackwood and Chase batted without any problems for the first nine overs but in the tenth of the day Shah produced a sharp turning ball which took the edge off Chase’s bat to wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed for an easy catch.
Pakistan took the second new ball with the score on 223-5 but Blackwood hit two boundaries in Sohail Khan’s first over. Shah then took two more wickets to derail West Indies’s fight.
Pakistan earlier won the first Test by 56 runs in Dubai. The third and final Test will be played in Sharjah from October 30.