West Indies started their ICC World Test Championship campaign in style, registering a thrilling one-wicket win over Pakistan in Jamaica on Sunday.
Kemar Roach (unbeaten 30) and Jayden Seales (2 not out) addꦛed 17 runs for the last wicket as West Indies reached the set target of 168 for the loss of nine wickets after bundling out Pakistan for 203 in their second innings, w♛ith Seales picking up his maiden five-wicket haul (5/55).
Seales also became the youngest West Indies player to take a fifer in Test cricket, breaking the record set by a 20-year-old Alf Valentine♒ in 1950. Seales is currently 19 years and ꦕ340 days old.
Brief scores: Pakistan 217 (Fawad Alam 56; Jason Holder 3/26) & 203 (Babar Azam 55; Jayden ꧂Seales 5/55) lost to West Indies 253 (Kraigg Brathwaite 97; Shaheen Afridi 4/59) & 168-9 (Jermaine Blackwood 55; Afridi 4/50) by one wicket.
Both sides next meet on Friday in the second and final Testﷺ of the series.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
THE WEST INDIES WIN BY ONE WICKET!
This is Test match cricket. This is the pinnacle of the sport. This is wh⛄at it means ❤️
— Cricket on TNT Sports (@cricketontnt)
Well done 👏👏!! Bad luck to Pakistan!! Itౠ w🌠as a wonderful test match 👌👌
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99)
Great test match but this one’s going to hurt. Dropped catches have cost Pakistan the game,defen🌼ding 168,can’t expect to win without taking the half chances.
— zainab abbas (@ZAbbasOfficial)
There's a reason they say.
Catches. Win. Matches!— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph)
What a test match it was…Congratulations to f♉or their top effort fought till the end Hard luck team win & lose is a part of game.Good luck for next ♔games.
— Kamran Akmal (@KamiAkmal23)
The Betway Player of 🧔the Match goes to the youngster, Jayden Seales! 🏆
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket)
WI WIN!!!! 🥳🥳
Don't you just love Test cricket?! 🌴
— Windies Cricket (@windiescricket)
What an incredible Test Match win by West Indies at Sabina Park. The kind of wins you cherish a lifetime . Great to see the manner in which they have registered some of th🧔eir recent Test wins. Roach was brilliant and what an impressive future lies ahead of young Jayden Seales.
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
That is what test cricket is all about. Great battle and . It’s appropriate that Kemar Roach♐ and Jayd♒en Seales sealed it. Kemar has said that Seales is one of the most teachable young men he has met. Well done👏🏻��🏻👏🏻.
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
Hard luck Team Pakistan. Butꦑ as for cricket it was an incredible match. cricket truly is an unpredictable game.
— Junaid khan (@JunaidkhanREAL)
What a test match!!
— Shakera Selman (@selman_shakera)
Test match cricket… ‘alive & kicking𒀰’… well done Windies! Entertainmet plus from vs 👏🌴😎🏏♔
— Danny Morrison (@SteelyDan66)
West Indies Test wins by 1 wicket:
v Australia Bridgetown, Barbados 1999
v Pakistan St John's, Antigua 2000
v Pakistan Kingston, Jamaica 2021Just the 15th Tes๊t to be won by 1 wicket (all teams) 🏝️
— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)
The last time W🤡est Indies won a Test match by a 1-wicket margin was also against Pakistan in May 2000. Jayden Seales, the No.11 batter in the latest win wꦦas not born yet!
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
