The day might have taken a lot of time to get going with wet outfield playing party pooper at Sabina Park on Day three, but once it did get going, Pakistan over all over it.
Thanks to an unbeaten 124 from Fawad Alam, who came to bat once again after being retired hurt on Day 1 and Shaheen Afridi’s ferocious spell in West Indies’ first innings, Babar Azam’s men ended the third day in a commanding position. At the time of writing, Pakistan were leading by 263 runs with West Indies reeling at 39-3 in reply to the visitors' 302-9 declared.
Starting their innings, the Windies were cautious, but against a deadly speel of Shaheen, where he was able to bring the ball back and take it away from the batter from the same length, it didn’t really take much time before the openers folded. Roston Chase played few beautiful shots before he was cleaned up by an inswinger from Faheem Ashraf when the team score had reached 34.
Nkruma Bonner and Alzarri Joseph, who walked in as nightwatchman made sure that no more wickets and fell and the Men in Maroon would come back on Day 4 at 38-3.
Earlier in the day, Pakistan didn’t have a good start either as it lost three crucial wickets in a span of span 13 runs at the day’s start. But then Fawad, who reached his fifth Test hundred, fourth in a span of just 10 months and eight Tests, hed the fort, first with Hasan Ali and then with Shaheen Afridi to guide Pakistan past 300.
Both Kemar roach and Jayden Seales picked three wickets each while Jason holder got the wickets of Mohammad Rizwan and Nauman Ali and Hasan Ali got run out.