Mohammad Amir has taken five wickets in the first innings of the opening test against West Indies. This is the first five wicket haul for Amir in test cricket since his comeback. Amir has not taken this much number of wickets in a single innings despite playing over 10 test matches.
He was not been able to hit the full throttle. His bowling was lame and there is no doubt about it. The fans were putting questions on his performances and as a result the desperation level was increasing. Amir had to come up with something and now he has done that.
Mohammad Amir five wickets have given Pakistan a very stable and wanting sort of a start to this test match. But rain is a factor which might put hurdles in the path of Pakistan team in their journey towards winning this opening test.
The second day see just a few overs play and then the rain came down and no cricket remained possible after that. Amir picked up 2 wickets in those limited number of overs bowled by Pakistan. He took three wickets on day one and then two on day two.
He started with Hetmyer, getting him bowled out on an inswinger. After bowling a series of out swingers to the left hander Amir then brought one back in. The batsman was not ready for this one and got late. The ball went in and took the stumps out.
After this Hope fell. This was another massive in swinger and Hope was no way near to the line of the ball. He too perished after Amir knocked his stumps out. After this Amir took out Powell and this was a sharp catch from Younis Khan in the slips. These three wickets fell for Amir on day one and then on day two he bagged the wickets of Bishoo and Joseph. This was an excellent spell of bowling from Amir.
He was not been able to hit the full throttle. His bowling was lame and there is no doubt about it. The fans were putting questions on his performances and as a result the desperation level was increasing. Amir had to come up with something and now he has done that.
Mohammad Amir five wickets have given Pakistan a very stable and wanting sort of a start to this test match. But rain is a factor which might put hurdles in the path of Pakistan team in their journey towards winning this opening test.
The second day see just a few overs play and then the rain came down and no cricket remained possible after that. Amir picked up 2 wickets in those limited number of overs bowled by Pakistan. He took three wickets on day one and then two on day two.
He started with Hetmyer, getting him bowled out on an inswinger. After bowling a series of out swingers to the left hander Amir then brought one back in. The batsman was not ready for this one and got late. The ball went in and took the stumps out.
After this Hope fell. This was another massive in swinger and Hope was no way near to the line of the ball. He too perished after Amir knocked his stumps out. After this Amir took out Powell and this was a sharp catch from Younis Khan in the slips. These three wickets fell for Amir on day one and then on day two he bagged the wickets of Bishoo and Joseph. This was an excellent spell of bowling from Amir.
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