{"id":23117,"date":"2026-07-29T16:48:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23117"},"modified":"2026-07-29T16:48:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T11:48:30","slug":"west-indies-beat-pakistan-by-90-runs-to-take-1-0-lead-in-test-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=23117","title":{"rendered":"West Indies Beat Pakistan by 90 Runs to Take 1-0 Lead in Test Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>West Indies defeated Pakistan by 90 runs in the first Test at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chasing a target of 211, Pakistan were bowled out for 120, with only captain Babar Azam offering significant resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Babar remained unbeaten on 58, while Azan Awais, Imam-ul-Haq and Shan Masood scored 3 runs each. Ali Usman made 2, Khurram Shahzad scored 4, while Salman Ali Agha, Aamer Jamal and Mohammad Ali were all dismissed without scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on the fourth day, West Indies resumed their second innings on 126 for 7 and were bowled out for 181, setting Pakistan a victory target of 211 after securing a 29-run first-innings lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the first innings, West Indies posted 311, with Shai Hope scoring 92 and Keacy Hodge making 84. For Pakistan, Mohammad Ali claimed four wickets, while Mohammad Abbas took three.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan replied with 282 in their first innings, thanks largely to Shan Masood&#8217;s 109 and Imam-ul-Haq&#8217;s 63. Justin Greaves starred with the ball for West Indies, taking five wickets.<\/p>\n<p>The victory gives West Indies a 1-0 advantage heading into the second and final Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Indies defeated Pakistan by 90 runs in the first Test at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Tarouba, taking a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. Chasing a target of 211, Pakistan were bowled out for 120, with only captain Babar Azam offering significant resistance. Babar remained unbeaten on 58, while Azan Awais, Imam-ul-Haq [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[173,13221,13226,3440,4163,8950,4148,2647],"class_list":["post-23117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-first-test","tag-justin-greaves","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-shan-masood","tag-sports","tag-test-cricket","tag-west-indies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23119,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23117\/revisions\/23119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}