A century from opener Ahmed Shehzad guided Pakistan to a comfortable win over the West Indies on Monday, giving the tourists a 2-0 lead in their five match one-day international series.
The World Cup semi-finalists cruised to victory by seven wickets with 12 balls to spare and never looked in danger of letting Darren Sammy’s West Indies side get close to leveling the series.
It was another poor batting display for the West Indies, who were bowled out for just 220 from their allotted 50 overs as the batsmen once again struggled against Pakistan’s spinners.
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Lendl Simmons hit 51 off 48 balls but lacked support from the other top-order batsmen.
The pick of the bowlers was off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, who dismissed Dwayne Bravo and Devandra Bishoo while giving up just 23 runs from his ten overs.
There was some late resistance, with Kemar Roach making a handy 24, which at least gave the West Indies some kind of total to try and defend.
However, Pakistan played smartly against some tidy West Indies bowling, Mohammed Hafeez (32) and Shehzad putting on 66 for the opening wicket in 18.2 overs and then Asad Shafiq made 23 before he was run out.
Misbah-ul-Haq (43 not out) then took on the role of supporting Shezhad, who took Pakistan close to victory before he was stumped off leg-spinner Bishoo, having made 102 from 148 balls.
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