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Chase says West Indies misjudged pitch spin in Pakistan Test defeat
West Indies captain Roston Chase said his side had not expected the Queen's Park Oval pitch to turn as early as it did, and could have accommodated an extra frontline spinner, after…
West Indies captain Roston Chase said his side had not expected the Queen's Park Oval pitch to turn as early as it did, and could have accommodated an extra frontline spinner, after an eight wicket defeat by Pakistan that levelled their two match series 1-1, NDTV Sports and Rediff reported. Spinners took the bulk of the wickets to fall in the match, with West Indies fielding only Jomel Warrican against Pakistan's pairing of Sajid Khan and Ali Usman. Chase, who normally bowls off spin, said a finger injury limited how much he could bowl himself, and that all rounder Justin Greaves was unable to bowl after a leg injury sustained while batting. Chase said any additional spinner would have come in without dropping himself from the side, and praised Warrican's six wicket haul in the first innings as patient and well earned.
Indian Opinion Analysis
Twenty of thirty wickets in this match fell to spin, yet West Indies fielded only Warrican against Pakistan's Sajid Khan and Ali Usman pairing, a gap Chase concedes rather than deflects. The shortfall was not purely selection, though: Chase's finger injury left him unable to share the workload he would normally take as an off-spinner, and Greaves' leg injury removed the seamer Chase calls someone he can always count on to pull things back. Warrican's 46 overs and six wickets suggest the tactic could have worked with support, while the pace attack's slow adjustment to a pitch unlike the Brian Lara Stadium surface used in the first Test compounded the problem. The next time a pitch turns this early will show whether West Indies still under-bowl spin.
Coverage: 2 sources, 2 neutral
Sources (2): sports.ndtv.com (neutral report), rediff.com (neutral report)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry.
