ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 Match 2 West Indies vs Pakistan Live Updates: A wide and a single at the start of Wahab’s fourth over, before Pooran collects a four and a six off three deliveries to finish the chase off in style for the Windies, who win with more than 36 overs to spare! Disappointing outing for Pakistan today, with Mohammad Amir’s spell being the only positive for them today. Their losing streak now extends to 11! ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, Match 2, West Indies vs Pakistan at the Trent Bridge in Nottingham, Preview: For the first time in years, the West Indies has a team which might go close to winning the tournament. The top of the order features the imposing figure of Chris Gayle, who has been handed the additional responsibility of vice-captaincy. Gayle, 39, compiled two centuries and two half-centuries in the West Indies’ recent series against England in the Caribbean. [caption id=“attachment_6733431” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
File image of Jason Holder and Sarfaraz Ahmed. AFP[/caption] “As a senior player it’s my responsibility to support the captain and everyone else in the team,” says Gayle, who retired from ODI cricket briefly after the 2015 World Cup but made a return two years later. “This will probably be the biggest World Cup so there will be great expectations and I know we’ll do very well for the people of the West Indies.” For a team who routinely oscillate between sublime cricket and farce and are cursed with a legendary ability to self-destruct, Pakistan will enter another World Cup as the proverbial dark horses with good memories of England. Sarfraz and his men must heed the advice from someone who famously galvanised a traditionally fractious side to World Cup glory in 1992. “Unpredictable – that’s a word that us as coaching staff hate,” coach Micky Arthur recently said in a video on the cricket board’s website. Squads West Indies:
Chris Gayle
,
Evin Lewis
,
Darren Bravo
,
Shimron Hetmyer
,
Nicholas Pooran
(w),
Ashley Nurse
,
Andre Russell
,
Jason Holder
(c),
Carlos Brathwaite
,
Shai Hope
,
Fabian Allen
,
Kemar Roach
,
Oshane Thomas
,
Shannon Gabriel
,
Sheldon Cottrell
Pakistan:
Imam-ul-Haq
,
Fakhar Zaman
,
Babar Azam
,
Mohammad Hafeez
,
Shoaib Malik
,
Sarfaraz Ahmed
(w/c),
Imad Wasim
,
Shadab Khan
,
Hasan Ali
,
Mohammad Amir
,
Wahab Riaz
,
Haris Sohail
,
Asif Ali
,
Shaheen Afridi
,
Mohammad Hasnain
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