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 wickets after bundling out Pakistan for 203 in their se🦩cond 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 currently 19 years and 340 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) &a🙈mp; 168-9 (Jermaine Blackwood 55; Afridi 4/50) by one wicket.
Both sides next meet on Friday in the s🥃econd and final Test of the series.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
THE WEST INDIES WIN BY ONE WICKET!
This is Test mไatch cricket. This is the pinnacle of the sport. This is what it means 🅺❤️
— Cricket on TNT Sports (@cricketontnt)
𒀰Well done 👏�💛�!! Bad luck to Pakistan!! It was a wonderful test match 👌👌
— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99)
Great test match but this one’s going to hurt. Dropped catches ha🤡ve 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 t🌞he 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 Matꦫch 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 Seales.
— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281)
That is what test cricket is all about. Great battle and . It’s appropriate that Kemar Roach and Jayden Seales sealed𒊎 it. Kemar has said that Seales is one of the most teachable yo🍎ung 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 ♔unpredictable game.
— Junaid khan 83 (@JunaidkhanREAL)
What a test match!!
— Shakera Selman (@selman_shakera)
Test match cricket… ‘alive & kicking’… well done Windies! Entertainmet plus frꦏom 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 Te꧃🐭st to be won by 1 wicket (all teams) 🏝️
— Fox Sports Lab (@FoxSportsLab)
The last time West Indies wo𒊎n a Test match by a 1-wicket margin was alsꦯo against Pakistan in May 2000. Jayden Seales, the No.11 batter in the latest win was not born yet!
— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
