Fortunes mixed in Pakistan cricket
NZPA . • Karachi David Murray and Larry Gomes blunted a Pakistani onslaught and saved the West Indies from imminent rout in the third cricket test. They came together when the . five frontline wickets had tumbled in taking the score to 44. By stumps their partnership was worth 61. So the West Indies finished the third day’s play on the rain-affected wicket at five for 105 in reply to Pakistan’s 128. Murray was on 24 and Gomes 37 at stumps. Today is. a rest day. Earlier, Sylvester Clarke, whose pace had started, Pakistan’s troubles yesterday, retained the initiative for the visitors by taking three more wickets, including that of skipper Javed. Miandad, who lhad scored 60 off. 129 deliveries; in-195 minutes. - - Wasim Bari helped him in r; stand of; 54 .for- the -seventh 'Wicket.' In’‘four lethal deliveries Clarke then 7 took three wickets. Wasim, Javed and Iqbal Qasini were his Victims. 17.7 5 When Clarke was brought bit- yesterday, Pakistan; — sixfor 68 overnight — -had taken the total to 111 witheut'ihishap. He disposed of Javed -and Iqbal with succes-sive-balls but Nazir Junior foiled, a Jiat-trick. Clarke finished with four for 27. The West. Indies, too, soon lost wickets. Imran bowled Faoud Bacchus in hig fifth over and Alvin Kallichafrah in his sixth.
Javed at gully held a brilliant catch to send back his fellow skipper, Chve Lloyd,when he tried to cut Imran. , , The left-arm spinner. Iqbal Qasim, who had made the initial breakthrough by trapping Desmond Haynes, later had Viv Richards caught, by Zaheer Abbas for 18. ' 1 Murray, dropped by Sadiq Mohammad waist-high at gully when 11, was joined by Gomes and Pakistan was denied any further success.
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