Apart from the 90-run defeat against West Indies at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad and Tobago, Pakistan suffered another major blow as their former captain and in-form batsman Shan Masood suffered a serious injury, making it uncertain for him to play the remaining matches of the series.
After West Indies vs Pakistan 1scheduled tribe In the test match, captain Babar Azam told that Shan Masood has suffered a fracture in his finger due to his injury. Masood suffered a fracture in his finger while batting during the first innings of the match.
Shan Masood scored a century in the first innings against West Indies
Shan Masood was one of the best batsmen of Pakistan cricket team as he scored a century in the first innings of the match. As Babar Azam pointed out at the presentation ceremony, Masood returned after scoring 109 runs in 184 balls and probably had a finger injury.
Babar confirmed, “Yes, Shan Masood’s injury affected us because, unfortunately, he has a broken finger, so we definitely missed him.”
In the second innings, when Pakistan needed only 211 runs to win the World Test Championship (WTC) match, Shan Masood came down the batting order as the team’s No. 8 batsman, leading to speculation over his fitness.
Babar Azam blamed the batsmen for the defeat against West Indies
Coming off a heavy defeat against the West Indies, Pakistan captain Babar Azam blamed the top-order batting combination for not producing any significant partnerships that could put up some resistance against the home team’s bowling attack.
He said, “We played good cricket in the last few days, but today we could not perform well as a batting unit… The surface is good and we expected the new ball to move, which we were prepared for… But I think they bowled very well and used the conditions well.”
In both innings the Caribbean bowling attack miraculously pulled the West Indies back into the contest. In the first innings, Justin Greaves dismantled the visiting team’s batting order by taking five consecutive maiden over wickets.
“At the same time, when you are facing the new ball, you have to survive the first 20 overs, build partnerships and then, as the ball gets older, the pitch becomes easier to bat on. We couldn’t string together those partnerships,” he said.
West Indies fast bowlers changed the pace of the match on several occasions
Jaden Seales’ 5-fer in the second innings dashed all the hopes of the Men in Green. Babar himself batted well in the second innings, remaining unbeaten on 58 off 107 balls, but he lacked a proper partner at the opposite end of the wicket. Apart from Babar, Mohammad Rizwan (11) and Mohammad Abbas (23) were the only two batsmen who scored double-digit runs in the run chase.
Before the second match, the Pakistan captain will discuss the mistakes made in the first innings to avoid them in the upcoming matches to improve their position in the WTC rankings.
Babar said, “We will sit together and discuss these things, because the result did not suit us, we can definitely correct our mistakes. We will try our best to correct them and ensure that we improve further.”
