West Indies gamers rejoice after defeating Pakistan within the third ODI on August 12, 2025
It was the primary bilateral ODI sequence gained by West Indies in opposition to Pakistan since 1991 and ended a run of house sequence defeats throughout the Test and Twenty20 codecs to Australia and Pakistan.
Hope stroked an unbeaten 120 earlier than tempo bowler Jayden Seales destroyed Pakistan’s chase with six wickets within the third and last one-day cricket worldwide.
The West Indies captain mentioned he was extraordinarily happy with his crew.
Hope added there’d been plenty of stress on negatives within the sport however now there was “positives to shout about” for West Indies cricket.
The huge win got here within the wake of a two-day emergency summit for Caribbean cricket. Hope attended a part of the summit, together with greats together with Brian Lara and Clive Lloyd, to assist create methods to elevate West Indies again towards the highest of the worldwide sport.
The summit was referred to as after a West Indian lineup scored simply 27 runs in its second innings – one run in need of the all-time check report for low totals — whereas dropping the third of three exams to Australia.
After dropping eight straight matches to Australia after which dropping a Twenty20 sequence 2-1 to Pakistan in Florida, West Indies misplaced the ODI series-opener to Pakistan final week by 5 wickets.
West Indies leveled the sequence with a five-wicket victory within the second ODI to stoke hope of a revival and dominated the third.
Pakistan was dismissed for 92 in 29.2 overs Tuesday after West Indies posted 294-6 at Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago.
Hope hit 5 sixes and 10 fours in his 94-ball knock, sharing an unbroken seventh-wicket stand with Justin Greaves of 110 runs in round eight overs.
Greaves was 43 not out in solely 24 deliveries, together with two sixes and 4 fours.
Pakistan collapsed early in its chase to 23-4 within the ninth over, with three geese from its high 4 batters. Opener Saim Ayub was caught behind on the third ball of the innings, Abdullah Shafique additionally failed to attain, and Pakistan was 8-3 when captain Mohammad Rizwan was bowled by Seales for a golden duck within the third over.
Seales took his fourth wicket by trapping Babar Azam (9) lbw. Seales completed with figures of 6-18 from 7.2 overs.
Hasan Nawaz (13) superior and was stumped in opposition to the bowling of Gudakesh Motie and Roston Chase bowled Hussain Talat (1), leaving Pakistan on 62-6 within the twenty first over. Salman Agha top-scored for Pakistan with a 49-ball 30.
The match and sequence ended with one other golden duck when Abrar Ahmed was run out by Chase.
Published – August 13, 2025 03:57 pm IST
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