West Indies 72 for 3 (Powell 29*, Chase 23*) v Pakistan
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Mohammad Amir cleverly worked over Kraigg Brathwaite © AFP
The sun may have been blazing down, but that didn’t mean the rules of Test cricket would suddenly cease to apply. West Indies found out in the first session at Bridgetown, tottering to 72 for 3 at lunch.
A bowler whose seam is as upright and line as consistent as Mohammad Amir’s will continue to threaten batsmen in any conditions, as Kraigg Brathwaite will tell you. A batsman who hangs his bat outside off stump carelessly always risks edging to slip – as Shimron Hetmyer discovered – no matter how dry the wicket.
This was far from the Kensington Oval surface of old, but Pakistan’s opening pair of Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Abbas still rolled back the years in a probing opening spell to leave the West Indies openers looking distinctly uncomfortable.
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Danyal Rasool is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @Danny61000
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