Pakistan crumble for second straight day as West Indies win first Test by 90 runs

[p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/pakistan-tS3K91g9/west-indies-jTD1lMfO/?mid=Cb7vyGl3"]Set a tricky target of 211 on a deteriorating surface[/a], the tourists were never in contention and were all out for 120 off 40.2 overs just after tea.[/p][p]It could have been worse. When they subsided to 71 for nine, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/pakistan/tS3K91g9/"]Pakistan[/a] seemed doomed to their lowest Test innings total against the [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/west-indies/jTD1lMfO/"]West Indies[/a].[/p][p]Bowling hero Mohammad Abbas hung around with captain Babar Azam to put on 49 runs for the last wicket before Jayden Seales ended the match by trapping Abbas leg-before for 23, finishing with figures of five for 20.[/p][p]Babar remained unbeaten on 58.[/p][p]Pakistan will go into the second and final Test a few miles away at Queen's Park Oval in Port of Spain, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/cricket/pakistan-tS3K91g9/west-indies-jTD1lMfO/?mid=zFNf6D2e"]starting Sunday[/a], on the back of four consecutive defeats and an extended abysmal run of 13 losses in their last 17 Tests.[/p][embed guid="662cc559-9ca1-44a3-80a4-8261c3423bbb" url="https://x.com/windiescricket/status/2082190851787063577" social-type="twitter" /][p]This was also the eighth consecutive Test loss away from home.[/p][p]Their capitulation was a repeat of events of the third day when they lost seven wickets for 38 runs, sliding from 244 for three to 282 all out to concede a 29-run first innings deficit.[/p][h2]'Being disciplined'[/h2][p]Pakistan fought back with the ball late on day three, but West Indies rallied to a second innings total of 181, adding 55 runs on the fourth morning on the back of an adventurous 38 off 27 balls (four sixes and one four) from Shamar Joseph.[/p][p]Even after the innings was wrapped up by Abbas - who finished with the excellent figures of five for 22 – the Pakistan players' body language in the field increasingly suggested the target was well beyond their reach, especially with former captain Shan Masood hampered by a fractured finger sustained during his first innings century.[/p][p]He bravely came out with the innings in ruins at 58 for six only to become one of Seales' victims, taken at backward point by Joseph.[/p][p]On the day when the late, great all-rounder Garfield Sobers would have turned 90, the latest follower in his footsteps, fellow-Barbadian Justin Greaves, picked up two wickets to finish with match figures of seven for 39 and earn the Player of the Match award.[/p][p][b]"It was just about being disciplined,"[/b] said Greaves.[/p][p][b]"From watching Mohammad Abbas in both the first and second innings, we tried to mimic that and it pretty much worked out well for us."[/b][/p][embed guid="ba162dec-18f5-456e-b13b-e446e96e92cb" url="https://x.com/windiescricket/status/2082194052082962656" social-type="twitter" /][p]Babar was honest about his team's batting frailties.[/p][p][b]"This surface is good. We have to expect it to be a bit up and down at this stage and also the movement with the new ball. We prepared for this,"[/b] he said.[/p][p][b]"But they bowled very well, using the conditions, and we just couldn't get a partnership going."[/b][/p][p]West Indies captain Roston Chase enjoyed his second Test win in three matches after going more than a year without success after his appointment.[/p][p][b]"I love how this team is going," [/b]he said. "We're not depending on one or two guys solely. Everyone is chipping in at crucial times."[/p]