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Report - 3rd T20I: Evin Lewis' phenomenal 91 guides West Indies to a comfortable win over Pakistan

Abdullah719

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Toss: Pakistan won the toss and chose to bat.

Teams:

West Indies: E Lewis, CAK Walton†, MN Samuels, LMP Simmons, KA Pollard, JN Mohammed, CR Brathwaite*, JO Holder, SP Narine, S Badree, KOK Williams

Pakistan: Ahmed Shehzad, Kamran Akmal, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Sarfraz Ahmed*†, Shoaib Malik, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali

Pakistan Innings

Sarfraz won the toss and an unchanged Pakistan team opted to bat, whilst Jason Mohammed debuted for West Indies. The hosts got off to a perfect start as Shehzad and the promoted Imad were dismissed within the first four deliveries by Badree, bowled and stumped respectively. Babar and Kamran stabilised the innings though they failed to inject momentum into it. Kamran finally began to get some boundaries away towards the end of the powerplay as the partnership blossomed with 76 on the board after 10 overs. However, Kamran fell to a full-toss from Samuels, missing out on a fifty as he was dismissed for 48 while Malik played a short, jittery knock and was out caught in the deep as well. Fakhar and Babar hit a six apiece but the latter perished as he tried to scoop the ball and was bowled for 43. Sarfraz was run out cheaply and Wahab also fell soon as Pakistan stumbled at the finish line. Fakhar failed to get the ball away for boundaries and was eventually run out for 21 as the Pakistan innings finished with a whimper at 137/8.

Fall Of Wickets

1-4 (Ahmed Shehzad, 0.2 ov)
2-4 (Imad Wasim, 0.4 ov)
3-92 (Kamran Akmal, 12.1 ov)
4-95 (Shoaib Malik, 13.4 ov)
5-115 (Babar Azam, 15.4 ov)
6-124 (Sarfraz Ahmed, 17.2 ov)
7-130 (Wahab Riaz, 18.3 ov)
8-132 (Fakhar Zaman, 19.1 ov)

West Indies Innings

There was an early wicket for Pakistan in the midst of three tight overs as Walton fell with Fakhar taking a good catch in the deep. However, Lewis hit a couple of boundaries off Tanvir then dispatched Imad for two big sixes to put the pressure back on the tourists. Samuels joined the party as West Indies racked up 49 runs in the powerplay. Wahab came on to bowl and started well with a tight over that saw him dismiss Samuels but Lewis continued on his merry way. West Indies were level at the 10-over mark with Pakistan's total of 76, but Lewis took off, reaching his fifty while smashing Shadab for a couple of sixes. Wahab bowled another good over but the effort was wasted as Tanvir returned with a 24-run over that included three more sixes from Lewis. Shadab finally dismissed the opener as Wahab caught him in the deep but he made effectively ended the contest with his 91-run knock off just 51 balls. The win was sealed next ball as the hosts won by 7 wickets with over 5 overs to spare.

Fall Of Wickets

1-2 (Walton, 1.2 ov)
2-58 (Samuels, 7.6 ov)
3-134 (Lewis, 14.4 ov)

Match Summary:

Another disappointing batting performance by Pakistan and this time, the bowling was unable to mask it as Lewis ran rampage. The margin of victory was massive at the end of the game and the visitors need to look at their stale batting order going forward. Too many one dimensional batsmen meant that Pakistan were always behind the game. The bowling was also lacklustre, with Tanvir in particular going for plenty. A change or two can be expected as West Indies look the square the series tomorrow.

Next match: 4th T20I on Sunday, 2nd April.
 
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No complaints, we were awful after the 12th over of our innings. Evin Lewis showed us what we're missing in terms of power hitting.
 
Tanvir singlehandedly won it for the West Indies:

40 runs from 3 overs with the ball
2 off 4 with the bat,
Gave away 12-15 runs in the field

Great work Tanvir Sobers:salute
 
Well 130-140 is never a defendable score in a T20 because the chasing team is never under immense pressure. They can mantain a RR for 5-6 and comfortably finish the game.
 
Babar Azam should be left out of T20s and made to focus on ODIs and Tests for now. Fakhar Zaman needs to come up the order. Sharjeel is a big loss. No pun intended. Also need to phase Malik, Tanvir and Kamran (despite his knock today) out. Otherwise it's a good squad.
 
Something to be smile about for the WI fans; Bad day for Pakistan. Hopefully Pak. will bounce back in the next game
 
Not sad about the loss but congrats to WI for the win they played really well today. I feel Sharjeel's absence has really hurt us but I feel that we could've scored higher than what we should have. Still feel we'll win 3-1 which I'll gladly take since you can't win them all.
 
I do agree with sarfaraz: the set batsmen were the issue
 
Babar Azam should be left out of T20s and made to focus on ODIs and Tests for now. Fakhar Zaman needs to come up the order. Sharjeel is a big loss. No pun intended. Also need to phase Malik, Tanvir and Kamran (despite his knock today) out. Otherwise it's a good squad.

Babar is the least of our worries. He's going to our #3 in all formats. Right now he's still figuring out his game, by 25-26 is when you expect the investment to pay off.
 
Tanvir singlehandedly won it for the West Indies:

40 runs from 3 overs with the ball
2 off 4 with the bat,
Gave away 12-15 runs in the field

Great work Tanvir Sobers:salute

Stop putting the blame on random players. At the end of the 13th over, West Indies were at 103/2 and Sohail had bowled 2 overs for 1/16. By the time he got smashed in his 3rd over, the match was already over.
 
Babar is the least of our worries. He's going to our #3 in all formats. Right now he's still figuring out his game, by 25-26 is when you expect the investment to pay off.

Man, even you know that's not true. you don't learn to bat aggressively. You need courage to do it and that shoul never be in short supply in a newbie
 
Poor performance all round. With Kamran for once giving us a good start Pak should have scored at least 30 more then what they did. To many similar batsman in the middle order instead of any big hitters. This was worsened by the poor decision of sending Imad Wasim up the order.
 
Pakistan did not deserve to win after yet another shambolic batting display. Batsmen need a big kick up the backside. At one stage 155-160 seemed gettable. Given how Pak have batted in the three games, Windies should have been 3-0 by now

Bowlers won us the first two games but they can't save you every time... just not possible to keep defending pathetic 130+/- totals.

Cannot remember the last time Pakistan won a limited overs game on account of their batting
 
Pakistan will bounce back hard,hopefully today was the last day we saw Tanvir anywhere near international cricket.
 
Windies destroyed Pakistan today, chasing down a poor score easily.

I really don't know why Sarfraz is being hyped up as some sort of great captain. His captaincy was very poor today, sending in Imad early was his first mistake. It continued down hill from then on.
 
The score was okay. Pakistan missed Mohammad Amir's bowling today while defending the target.
 
Chalo atleast Babar ne tou dil bhar ke tuk tuk kar li..
 
Why blame Tanvir? Wahab Riaz is your best bowler, what was the sense in him coming 2nd change? That was poor. Very poor captaincy.
 
Very comfortable for the Windies on a pitch where Pak should have gotten 160 at least but there were just too many stupid bating decisions. And those run outs, oh jeez.

Also, if you're gonna play Zaman, then he should be top 3 or max 4, not down at 6. And Sarfraz completely shrunk as captain when the things got tough, he did that last match too. Normally he is loud and screams at his players and always has an opinion to give but when things get tough he shrinks. I dont want to be too harsh on him because he's new to the job but he has to pick this up quickly.

He can't lead by example as his performances are becoming worse by the series so he will have to lead with brains and demeanour.
 
We could have won it had we played with ruman or shinwari instead of TTF tanvir

yeah erm ok...their both mediocre and will be smashed to pieces in int cricket..the only time Ruman sahib will do that idiotic celebration of his will be when he's in the dressing room trying to get over the shock of the beating he'll get..
 
We need to play Shoaib at #3 or #4, Since Management wanted quick runs and badree (Spinner) was operating, Malik would have been a much better option than Imad.

Malik is not one of those players who will come and slog, So shouldn't be coming anywhere below #4. Also since he has been a critical batsman from two years, He should be batting in top 4.

Sohail Tanvir should be dropped, Even from the next squad.
 
yeah erm ok...their both mediocre and will be smashed to pieces in int cricket..the only time Ruman sahib will do that idiotic celebration of his will be when he's in the dressing room trying to get over the shock of the beating he'll get..

keep your predictions for a fun fair show. rumen raees would have performed better than this one trick pony. I would much rather have a young rumen or shinwari even if he gets smashed he has time to learn and improve. There's no place for an an old tried and tested failure who has bribed his way to clear fitness tests.
 
A very poor performance by the batting unit. U can't defend 130s in this pitch. It was definitely 170-180 pitch. Pak was set to reach it till Kami played that shot off fultoss. Others players were all one dimensional. Players like sarfraz, Fakhar, Malik, Azam, Immad all plays the same way..they don't have a power game. Azam is a very good player. He is more like a williamson who can hold one end with 110-120 strike rate while others can slog big. But in Pakistan they have all the players in the Sam category. Even shehzad is not a big hitter. Only kamran can play with faster strike rate but he aso having many issues like poor fielding, age caching up & he is known for politics in the team..so still a long way to go for inzi to sort out batting order. Bowling is fine..Amir will come in place of sohail..fielding is improving with fielders like Fakhar, shadab, shehzad, Babar , Malik are fine fielders & wahab & Amir are also great trier so fielding is improving.
 
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I think he was 'being saved for the death overs'. :azhar2

Basically Sarfraz is not flexible in his pre match written plans that he want to execute no matter what. From bowling shadab after 6 overs,making Imad get phainty in PP overs and bringing Wahab after 8 everything he does is predictable.
 
I don't think Imad wasims promotion should be criticized. Pakistan has an awful top order. I hope they repeat the promotion today as well.
 
Can we stop blaming the players and looking for excuses? Why is it so hard to admit the fact that we lost the game because Evin Lewis was brilliant. He is a brilliant player and we were lucky to get him run out in the first two games. This time - he made us pay.

We need to drop Tanvir as soon as possible and bring in Shinwari.
 
keep your predictions for a fun fair show. rumen raees would have performed better than this one trick pony. I would much rather have a young rumen or shinwari even if he gets smashed he has time to learn and improve. There's no place for an an old tried and tested failure who has bribed his way to clear fitness tests.

So fakhar is garbage after one match but let's give shinwari and Co plenty of matches...man you lot make me laugh..
 
Basically Sarfraz is not flexible in his pre match written plans that he want to execute no matter what. From bowling shadab after 6 overs,making Imad get phainty in PP overs and bringing Wahab after 8 everything he does is predictable.

I'm not willing to come to this conclusion so soon.

Let's see how he goes.
 
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