Watch: West Indies Captain Nicholas Pooran Clean Bowls Fakhar Zaman To Pick First International Wicket

West Indies lost the third ODI to Pakistan in Multan by 53 runs (DLS method), and eventually lost the series 3-0. It was a difficult series for newly appointed West Indies white-ball captain Nicholas Pooran but there were quite a few positives too. One of those was the big revelation – his own bowling. Pooran picked up 4 wickets in the match as he completed 10 overs for the first time. Prior to this he had bowled only 3 deliveries in his 42-match ODI career till then.

Pooran has mostly been a wicket-keeper batter throughout his career. Prior to this match he had bowled only 6 deliveries in first-class cricket, and had one wicket to his name, apart from the three deliveries he had bowled in an ODI.

The Pakistan batters had no answer to his right-arm off break and Pooran picked up the quality wickets of openers Fakhar Zaman and Imam-ul-Haq. He added the scalps Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Haris to eventually finish with figures of 4/48 from his 10 overs

Watch: Nicholas Pooran clean bowls Fakhar Zaman

For Pakistan it was yet another series where the players rose up to the challenge. Imam-ul-Haw continued his great run at the top of the order with three consecutive fifties. He now has 7 consecutive fifties in ODIs.

Captain Babar Azam scored a century and a half-century, while the likes of Khushdil Shah, Shadab Khan and Mohammad Nawaz also put in noteworthy performances.

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