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- Updated: October 31, 2016
Tea West Indies 141 for 4 (Brathwaite 55*, Chase 43*, Babar 1-24) v Pakistan 281 (Aslam 74, Misbah 53, Bishoo 4-77, Gabriel 3-67)Live scorecard and ball-by-ball details
After sliding to 38 for 3 by lunch, West Indies fought back to a respectable position as Kraigg Brathwaite’s 12th Test fifty steered the side through a second session in which they added 103 runs for the sole loss of Jermaine Blackwood. With Roston Chase, Brathwaite put on an unbroken 73 for the fifth wicket to leave West Indies 140 short of Pakistan’s 281 by tea.
After being bowled out within the first hour of play, Pakistan rebounded to pull ahead through early breakthroughs. Mohammad Amir troubled Leon Johnson in the first over by swinging the ball away from the left-hander, before Wahab Riaz dismissed him for 1 with a straight ball that trapped him in front.
Then, towards the end of the first session, Bravo miscued a cross-batted swing off Zulfiqur Babar in the air towards midwicket, where Amir took a screamer of a catch. Soon …
