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- Updated: October 24, 2016
Tea West Indies 224 and 86 for 2 (Brathwaite 55*, Samuels 9*) need a further 370 runs to beat Pakistan 452 and 227 for 2 dec (Shafiq 58*, Younis 29*)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details
West Indies lost two wickets to avoidable shots after being asked to survive five sessions to save the Abu Dhabi Test or score 456 to win it. Pakistan declared their second innings at the stroke of lunch, after Asad Shafiq scored his second half-century of the match, leaving themselves a possible 62 overs on day four and all of day five to take 10 wickets. Their post-lunch session went more or less to plan: one-fifth of the task achieved in one-fifth of the time. At tea, West Indies were 86 for 2, with Kraigg Brathwaite batting on 55 and Marlon Samuels on 9.
The amount of time Pakistan gave themselves to bowl West Indies out indicated that they expected plenty of hard toil in excellent batting conditions. There was no swing available to the new-ball pair of Rahat Ali and Sohail Khan, and it only took Misbah-ul-Haq six overs to turn to spin from both ends.
There was not much help on offer for the spinners either, but Yasir Shah didn’t have to wait too long for his first wicket. Having only faced three balls from the legspinner, Leon Johnson tried to sweep him, and ended up dragging the ball onto his …
