Pakistan vs West Indies 2022
Imam-ul-Haq registered his seventh successive rating of 50-plus in ODI cricket. He became the 2d Pakistan batsman after legend Javed Miandad to full this feat.
Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq. (Source: Twitter)
Pakistan done a 3-0 whitewash of West Indies in the ODI collection in Multan with a 53-urge safe (via DLS arrangement) on Sunday (June 12). In a match diminished to 48 overs, Pakistan posted 269/9 attributable to half-centuries by Shadab Khan and Imam-ul-Haq and then restricted the company ton 216 despite a whirlwind 37-balls 60 by Akeal Hossain.
Loyal through his innings, Imam-ul-Haq registered his seventh successive rating of 50-plus in ODI cricket. He became the 2d Pakistan batsman after legend Javed Miandad to full this feat. In actuality, captain Babar Azam also had the chance to full this feat in opposition to West Indies on Sunday however was pushed apart for staunch 1 by leg-spinner Hayden Walsh.
Sooner than his 62-urge knock, Imam-ul-Haq had registered ratings of 56, 103, 106, 89, 65 and 72 in his closing six innings. With this feat, the Pakistan opener surpassed an elite list of batsmen namely Effect Waugh, Gordon Greenidge, Andrew Jones, Mohammad Yusuf, Chris Gayle, Shai Hope, Paul Stirling, Ross Taylor and Kane Williamson, all of whom own six consecutive ratings of 50-plus in ODIs. Miandad has 9 consecutive 50-plus ratings in ODIs, the most by any batsman in history. Two extra half centuries, and Imam-ul-Haq will equal the legendary batsman’s anecdote.
In a match curtailed to 48 overs per aspect, Pakistan posted a healthy whole courtesy Imam’s 62 and Shadab Khan smashed 86 off 78 balls. In answer, the Windies were bundled out for 216 in 37.2 overs with Shadab Khan claiming 4/62 and Hasan Ali picking up 2/29.
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— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) June 12, 2022
“We might per chance well intention the plans and are giving 100 per cent in all departments and the outcomes are there to peek. Nawaz’s bowling in the 2d match was a must own and that made up our minds the collection for us. So it was the supreme for us in the collection. We had to take a look at the bench energy as correctly as utilise the seniors,” Pakistan skipper Babar Azam acknowledged at some level of the post-match presentation.
“We are attempting assorted combos with bat and bowl. We are going to have the chance to are attempting and lend a hand continuity and lend a hand making an strive out. Now we own assorted areas of enhancements as every of the three video games showed. We hope to be taught from our mistakes and get better. (On his produce) I are attempting and play definite cricket and take a look at out to play the narrate. The prerequisites were in any other case in every of the video games,” Babar added.
Transient Scores: Pakistan 269/9 in 48 ovs (Shadab Khan 86, Imam-ul-Haq 62; Nicholas Pooran 4/48) bt West Indies 216 in 37.2 ovs (Akeal Hossain 60; Shadab Khan 4/62)