World Cup 2019
\nPakistan was bowled out on 105 – the team\u2019s all-time second lowest score in the World Cup
\nnews desk
\nNOTTINGHAM
\nOpener Chris Gayle scored a decent half-century to lead West Indies to a comfortable 105 runs chase against Pakistan in the World Cup opener at the Trent bridge on Friday.
\nThe Sarfraz men played only 21.4 overs of their batting innings as Jason Holder picked three wickets, Andre Russel took two and Sheldon Cottrell bagged one wicket. Mohammad Hafeez with 16 and Wahab Riaz (18) were the only other batsmen who reached double figures.
\nThe score has been Pakistan\u2019s all time second lowest score in the World Cup while the lowest is 74 against England in the famous 1992 World Cup. This is also Pakistan\u2019s lowest total against West Indies in the World Cup. Previous was 160 back in 2015.
\nWest Indies chased the score in 13.5 overs for the loss of three wickets.
\nThe only silver lining for Pakistan in the match was that fast bowler Muhammad Aamir appeared to have found his long lost rhythm as he took three wickets off 26 runs.
\nWest Indian fast bowler Oshane Thomas with his phenomenal 4-27 spell scripted a shambolic collapse of Pakistan.
\nPakistan lost its top order in a brief span in their opening match at the Trent Bridge, Nottingham. All-rounder Andre Russell exposed Pakistan\u00b4s fragile batting with two wickets in the space of 12 balls to give West Indies an early advantage.
\nBabar Azam and Fakhar Zaman were the highest run getter from the Pakistan side as they both scored 22.
\nWahab Riaz and Muhammad Aamir offered little resistance in the last wicket partnership, however, the partnership was broken on 22 runs – interestingly it was the highest partnership of Pakistan in the match.
\nPakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed expressed his hope that the team will bounce back after the loss today. \u201cI think we have to play positive cricket, didn\u2019t do well today but hopefully we\u2019ll bounce back. We know they have pace bowlers who will come hard at us, but we didn\u2019t play the short ball well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World Cup 2019 Pakistan was bowled out on 105 – the team\u2019s all-time second lowest score in the World Cup news desk NOTTINGHAM Opener Chris Gayle scored a decent half-century to lead West Indies to a comfortable 105 runs chase against Pakistan in the World Cup opener at the Trent bridge on Friday. The Sarfraz […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"\n