Pakistan routs West Indies by 8 wickets to sweep T20 series
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ABU DHABI: Pakistan downed world champions West Indies in the third and final Twenty20 international by eight wickets in Abu Dhabi, achieving their first-ever clean sweep in the shortest format on Tuesday.
Left-arm spinner Imad Wasim chipped in with three for 21 — nine wickets in the series — as West Indies crawled to 103-5 in their 20 overs after Pakistan won the toss and decided to bowl first.
Marlon Samuels scored 42 not out while Kieron Pollard made an unbeaten 16.
Pakistan wipes off the target in 15.1 overs, with Shoaib Malik (43 not out) and Babar Azam scoring an unbeaten 27.
Pakistan won the first two matches by nine wickets and 16 runs respectively — both in Dubai.
The two teams will now play a three-match one-day series starting in Sharjah on Friday.
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Sep 27, 2016 11:30pm
WI are a weird team. They are world champions imagine and can't put bat to ball here !
At home in the Caribbean, they are slightly better at T20s.
What kind of a format is this? World Champions because of four shots played in the final over of WC final. Else they can't put bat to ball.
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Sep 27, 2016 11:56pm
Pakistan have beaten the World Champion West Indies. Congratulation to Saefraz
for the 4th win in a row as T-20 Captain.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:29am
Too easy. West Indies were as poor or Pakistan was as good that it turned out to be a boring T20 series. Pakistan will canter to a clean sweep in test and hopefully 3-0 win in ODIs too to get some rating points and also drag West Indies down too.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:31am
Great!
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Sep 28, 2016 12:40am
Well played shoib malik...he should bat at number 3 in one day cricket...!!
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Sep 28, 2016 12:43am
Well Done!
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Sep 28, 2016 01:09am
Congradulations Team Pakistan aka Shaheens!!!
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Sep 28, 2016 01:25am
Well played and Congratulations to Pakistan team.
Despite winning the series Sarfraz replaced Wahab and Hasan with Amir and Raees which paid off big time as team won more convincingly in the third match. Now we need to win all ODIs matches also to qualify for next ODI WC...
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Sep 28, 2016 01:26am
well deserve series win .congrats
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Sep 28, 2016 01:34am
Happy to see Pakistan doing well.
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Sep 28, 2016 02:18am
way to go Heroes in Green! awesome!
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Sep 28, 2016 02:43am
Well done on Micky Arthur the head coach...
Bravo! Sarfaraz Ahmed and his team mate.
Sarfaraz is very enthusiastic, patriotic and knows the cricket plus how to play a crad against opposition...he should be ODI captain as well.
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Sep 28, 2016 02:51am
Well done green-shirts. Keep it up and hang on tough.
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Sep 28, 2016 02:55am
The team is looking good and I don't see why the same team should notplay in ODI too.
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Sep 28, 2016 03:35am
T20 is hardly cricket... the real deal is Test cricket.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:27am
Excellent display of unity, faith and discipline by the green-shirts. My message to all green-shirt cricketers is to "keep it up and hang on tough." May God Almighty bless you with more victories in the days to come. Aameen, Tsum Aameen.
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Sep 28, 2016 05:55am
well done team green
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Sep 28, 2016 06:26am
Pakistan can get a similar result in odi series if play with this t20 winning combination.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:57am
Congrats Pakistan team! Good performance!
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Sep 28, 2016 08:29am
Great win! Now do it again in Aust/SthAfrica/Carribean
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Sep 28, 2016 08:33am
Congrats Pakistan team!
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Sep 28, 2016 08:47am
Good news.
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Sep 28, 2016 08:52am
Go green!
Well played, keep rising!
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Sep 28, 2016 09:12am
Well done Pakistan, well done Sarfraz.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:14am
well done skipper and team
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Sep 28, 2016 09:16am
Weldone Pakistan cricket team. And congratulations.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:36am
This is what Pakistan cricket fans expect.Credit must go to Micky Arthur for instilling in the team some changes and mechanism to bring good result.Well done !
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Sep 28, 2016 09:42am
PCB wake up. See the difference of leadership between Sarfraz and Azhar. Azhar does not even deserve an ODI inclusion and he still is there leading from front. Trust me he is not an ODI thing.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:43am
@A Well said. That is exactly the point. T20 format is just a fluke game. Cricket was a gentlemen's game.
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Sep 28, 2016 10:00am
Well done Pakistan Team.
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Sep 28, 2016 10:08am
@Mahen Yes we can smell the jealousy
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Sep 28, 2016 11:09am
Congratulations to the Pakistani Cricket Team on their victory in the T-20 series.
Imad Wasim has been outstanding in all the three T-20s. Best of luck in ODIs and 5-day tests as well.
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Sep 28, 2016 11:26am
Now where does Pakistan stand in T20 ranking after beating rank no. 1 team, anyone?
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Sep 28, 2016 11:47am
Well done Pakistan. But playing and watching cricket on lifeless, dead pitches is hardly fun.
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Sep 28, 2016 11:53am
Well done Pakistan.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:24pm
Well done. Bowlers were superb throughout esp. Imad. Like Afridi he is skiddy but more accurate and most of his deliveries keep low accounting for the high % of bowled outs.
West Indies were disappointing with the bat. I was expecting some fireworks in the last 5 overs with 5 wickets remaining. Very strange batting display.
Need to focus on ODIs equally
The pressure is now on Azhar to deliver as captain although to be fair to him he has done well with the bat.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:35pm
@Sixer from Chakwal (Now where does Pakistan stand in T20 ranking after beating rank no. 1 team, anyone?) - Pakistan is now 9th place.
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Sep 28, 2016 12:47pm
@Sixer from Chakwal PAkistans ranking remains the same and Windies drop to 4.
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Sep 28, 2016 01:00pm
Now do the same in Aust/S Africa and WI!
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Sep 28, 2016 01:52pm
Very impressive performance
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Sep 28, 2016 02:18pm
@Mahen PAK had beaten WI 2_0 in WI in 2013 and SA 1_1 and 1_0 in SA also. Didn't get a chance to play in AUS. So appreciate performance when it is to be rather than keeping same old trend of begrudging.
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Sep 28, 2016 04:17pm
@Simsim 7th
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Sep 28, 2016 04:18pm
@Simsim 7th and if they will keep on they will improve when u are down only way lefto is up
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Sep 28, 2016 05:39pm
@a -I have already commented on this forum that T-20 is a waste of time, and money. It proves nothing.
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Sep 28, 2016 06:30pm
@J. Gamble Then why india invests so much on IPL and how about billion of people who get involve in watching those matches and india earns a handsome amount of money from this.
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Sep 28, 2016 09:44pm
@shahzaib latif -It is all about making money- it is like a madari ka tamasha.
Look at West Indies, so called T-20 world championship. Did they play like World Champions? No. Though Pakistan won 3-0, but it was too boring. No competition at all.
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Sep 29, 2016 05:34pm
@J. Gamble only if india plays better it becomes a thrilling contest and PAK wins and match is boring even against world champions.
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