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Jomel Warrican taunts Sajid Khan aft taking his wicket. (Credit: X/FanCode screengrabs)
West Indies bowler Jomel Warrican paid his Pakistan counterpart Sajid Khan backmost successful benignant connected Monday, replicating the aforesaid taunting solemnisation that Khan had pulled disconnected aft dismissing him connected Sunday.
It made it each the much satisfying for Warrican due to the fact that Khan was the past wicket to autumn for Pakistan which led to West Indies winning the lucifer by 120 runs, their archetypal trial triumph successful Pakistan successful implicit 34 years.
With the hosts down to their past wicket, Warrican’s transportation bamboozled Khan who played the shot connected to his stumps. Following that, the West Indies spinner taunted Khan with John Cena’s “You can’t spot me” gesture, pursuing up with a thigh five.
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This motion was precisely what Khan had done connected Sunday erstwhile helium snapped up Warrican successful the 59th implicit of the West Indies’ 2nd innings. After the dismissal, Warrican had conscionable just smiled astatine the bowler earlier venturing off.
In the match, Pakistan, which needed a further 178 runs for an improbable win, fell rapidly to Warrican’s left-arm rotation connected Day 3 arsenic the West Indies won with implicit 2 days to spare.
Warrican claimed 5-27 to decorativeness the bid with a series-leading 19 wickets and besides pushed Pakistan to the bottommost of the World Test Championship array arsenic some teams ended its two-year campaigns.
It was a singular turnaround for West Indies which mislaid the archetypal trial by 127 runs astatine the aforesaid venue and were 7-38 connected Day 1 of the 2nd trial earlier its tailenders lifted them to 163 each retired for a slender archetypal innings pb of 9 runs.
West Indies finished eighth connected the WTC array and Pakistan was astatine No. 9 with Australia and South Africa already qualifying for the last astatine Lord’s successful June.
(With bureau inputs)
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