Pakistan on verge of resounding win

RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: Pakistan scored their highest total against West Indies in a home Test here today and then grabbed quick wickets to get ...

RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: Pakistan scored their highest total against West Indies in a home Test here today and then grabbed quick wickets to get close to 22an emphatic series win.

Pakistan captain Wasim Akram took three wickets, including the prized one of Brian Lara, as the visitors struggled to 99 for six in their second innings at the close of the fourth day of the second Test.

West Indies needed another 69 runs to avoid second successive innings defeat. West Indies lost opener Philo Wallace in the fourth over, adjudged lbw off Waqar Younis for eight. One run later Azhar Mahmood held a superb catch in gully off Wasim Akram to send Stuart Williams back for one.

Scoreboard

West Indies (1st innings:) 303

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Pakistan (1st innings) Saeed Anwar c Williams b Ambrose 16, Aamir Sohail c Simmons (sub) b Walsh 160, Ejaz Ahmed c Wallace b Rose 10, Inzamam-ul-Haq c Campbell b Walsh 177, Mohammad Wasim c Hooper b Walsh 26, Moin Khan c Williams b Rose 1, Azhar Mahmood c Williams b Rose 14, Wasim Akram b Bishop 11, Waqar Younis lbw b Walsh 2, Shoaib Akhtar c Hooper b Walsh 1, Mushtaq Ahmed not out 0; Extras (b13, lb9, nb25, w6) 53.

Total: (all out in 136.1 overs) 471

Fall of wickets: 1-41, 2-64, 3-387, 4-414, 5-415, 6-437, 7-459, 8-469, 9-469.

Bowling: Walsh 43.1-6-143-5, Ambrose 19-2-63-1, Bishop 24-3-80-1, Rose 33-7-92-3, Hooper 17-1-71-0.

West Indies (2nd innings): Sherwin Campbell b Mushtaq 34, Philo Wallace lbw b Younis 8, Stuart Williams c Mehmood b Akram 1, Brian Lara c and b Akram 1, Carl Hooper not out 44, Shivnarine Chanderpaul lbw b Akram 7, David Williams run out 0, Ian Bishop not out 1, Extras: (nb3) 3.

Total (for 6 wkts in 31 overs) 99

Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-10, 3-26, 4-67, 5-98, 6-98

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Bowling: Akram 9-5-17-3, Younis 7-0-29-1, Shoaib 7-2-21-0, Azhar 2-1-4-0, Mushtaq 6-3-28-122