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Brathwaite carries his bat as West Indies take lead
- Updated: November 1, 2016
Pakistan 281 and 32 for 0 (Azhar 16*, Aslam 15*) trail West Indies 337 (Brathwaite 142*, Chase 50, Wahab 5-88) by 24 runsLive Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
Kraigg Brathwaite’s unbeaten 142 off 318 made him the fifth West Indies batsman to carry his bat through a Test innings and helped his side to post 337 on day three in Sharjah. West Indies thereby climbed up to a handy 56-run first-innings lead, before Pakistan’s openers eased their way to 32 without loss by tea.
Brathwaite was a paragon of patience and concentration for the majority of his marathon knock. His temperament was matched by an ability to work ones and twos to all corners of the ground. Though all but one of his 11 fours came behind the wicket, perhaps owing to the slow outfield, he scored pretty evenly all around the field thanks to his ability to manoeuvre the ball into gaps and rotate the strike.
Brathwaite resumed on 95 on the third morning, but he made that 99 after the very first ball of the day, helping a slightly wide delivery from Mohammad Amir between gully and point. On the fifth ball of that over, Brathwaite worked one away for a two through midwicket to bring up his fifth Test century.
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