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) added 17 runs for the last wicket as West Indies reached the set target of 168 for the loss of nine wicke🌠ts after bundling out Pakistan for 203 in their second innings, with 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 currentl♐y 19 years andܫ 340 days old.
Brief scores: Pakistan 217 (Fawad Alam 56; Jason Holder 3/26) & 203 (Baba🐓r 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 mee⭕t on Friday in the second and final Test of the s🎶eries.
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 what i🌃t means ❤️
— Cricket on TNT Sports (@cricketontnt)
Well done 👏👏!! Ba🧸d luck to Pakistan!! It was a wonderful test match 👌👌
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99)
Great test match but this one’s going to hurt. Dropped catches have cost Pakistan the game,defending 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 for 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)
T♊he Betway Player of the Match goes to the youngst🏅er, 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 their recent Test wins. Roach was brilliant and what an impressive future lies ahead of young Jayden S💧eales.
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
That is what test cricket is all about📖. Great battle and . It’s appropriate that Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales sealed it. Kemar has said that Seales is one ofও the most teachable young men he has met. Well done👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi)
Hard luck Team Pakistan. But as for cricket it was✅ an incredible match. cricket truly is an unpredictab🔜le game.
— Junaid khan 83 (@JunaidkhanREAL)
What a test match!!
— Shakera Selman (@selman_shakera)
Test match cricket… ‘alive & kicking’… well done Wind🍸ies! Entertainmet plus fro♏m 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 Test t๊o be won by 1 wicket (all teams) 🏝️
— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)
The last time West Indies won a Test match by a 1-wicke♊t margin was also against Pakistan in May 2000ཧ. Jayden Seales, the No.11 batter in the latest win was not born yet!
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
