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Sep 12, 2011 Sports
By Sean Devers
In overcast conditions at the Guyana National stadium on Saturday night, West Indies lost to Pakistan by five wickets as Pakistan won their first game of the four-match series going into Sunday’s final match at the same venue.
Vice-Captain Stefanie Taylor top scored with a run-a-ball 48 with 4 fours before she was forced to retire suffering from Asthma with her team on 91-2 after the world rated Jamaican had put together 62 with Britney Cooper (28) for the second wicket on a slow and low track to help the host to 115-5 off their allotted 20 overs.
Juliana Nero was leg before to Qanita Jalil for a duck with just three runs on the board after the Pakistanis, who lost the first two t20 games in Grenada, had won the toss.
A very small crowd watched as Taylor stroked the ball beautifully and Cooper supported well before Taylor collapsed with breathing problems when two away from her first fifty of the series.
After Cooper was removed by Nida Rashid at 65-2, Stacy-Ann King (9) and the pugnacious Deandra Dottin (0) fell in the space of a run to Sadia Yousaf as the home team slipped to 92-4.
Anisa Mohamed (6) was soon taken at deep mid wicket as Yousaf struck again at 111-5 as the West Indies who won the ODI series between the two sides, were never allowed to get going despite an unbeaten 17 from Shanel Daley.
Yousaf took 3-25 from four overs for Pakistan who quickly lost Rashid for eight at 8-1 when she was leg before the Guyanese pacer Tremayne Smartt, playing her first match in West Indies colours on home soil.
With just seven defeats and 20 wins from their previous t20 Internationals since their first match at this level in 2008, West Indies quickly had the Asian girls struggling at 32-4 as left-arm spinner Daley who opened the bowling with Smartt and gifted off-spinner Mohammed struck telling blows.
But Bisha Maroof who struck three fours and a six in her unbeaten 43 and Javeria Wadood who was stumped off Daley for 37 with the scores tied added 83 for the fifth wicket to see their team to their first ever win against the West Indies to keep hopes of drawing the series alive.
Daley took 3-17 from four overs, while Mohammed, who had 14 wickets in the four ODIs and five in the first two t20s in Grenada, took 1-20 from 3.3 overs.
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