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May 21, 2000 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, MAY 20 (AP) - Left-hander Wavell Hinds scored a memorable maiden century Friday, his magnificent 165 providing the West Indies with a distinct advantage over Pakistan at the close of day two in the teams' second five-day cricket test.
The home team closed on 283 for five, 30 ahead of Pakistan's first day total of 253.
The 23-year-old Hinds, in only his fourth test, came to the wicket in the day's fourth over after Adrian Griffith was an early casualty. When Hinds finally fell just before the close, he had struck 24 meaty boundaries to all parts of the Kensington Oval in just over six hours at the crease. The Jamaican faced 236 balls in scoring his fifth first-class century.
It was the first time in 23 tests that a West Indian No. 3 batsman had reached three figures. Self-exiled former captain Brian Lara was the last man to achieve the feat back in 1997 against Sri Lanka in St. Vincent.
While Hinds' innings formed the backbone of the West Indies reply, he was ably assisted by opener Sherwin Campbell, who scored 58 off 122 balls in just over three hours. The pair responded positively to the loss of Griffith after resuming on two without loss, putting on 133 for the second wicket in 163 minutes.
Hinds gave the positive lead, getting off the mark with two powerful boundaries in one over off fast bowler Waqar Younis.
Campbell aggressively followed suit, pulling Younis and his fellow pace great Wasim Akram for sixes in successive overs.
The pair went to lunch at 113 for one, a productive morning session realizing 111 runs in 26 overs.
Campbell brought up his fifty in the over before the break with another pulled six off a long hop from Mushtaq Ahmed. Another Campbell six, all-run, was altogether more bizarre, an overthrow rolling to the longest boundary on the ground before it was finally retrieved.
Hinds got to his maiden half century just before Campbell, off 65 balls with nine fours in 96 minutes.
Campbell struck four sixes and four fours all told before he dragged Saqlain Mushtaq's off-break onto his stumps half way through the day.
Pakistan then managed to remove the two most experienced West Indies batsmen cheaply either side of tea, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and captain Jimmy Adams failing to pass double figures.
Chanderpaul got a brute of a bouncer from Abdur Razzaq and gloved to wicket-keeper Moin Khan, while Adams was unlucky to be given out to a slip catch off Mushtaq as he missed his drive at an off-break that really spun.
Adams had seen his fellow Jamaican Hinds to his century just before tea, Hinds lifting Mushtaq straight overhead for his 16th boundary to reach the landmark. He immediately removed his helmet, swung his bat in the air triumphantly to salute the appreciative crowd of about 9,000.
When Adams fell, at 213 for four, Pakistan sensed they had an opportunity, but Hinds maintained his onslaught and found another solid ally in young Ramnaresh Sarwan.
The 19-year-old Sarwan, the 11th teen-ager to represent the West Indies, added 69 with Hinds and was 28 not out at the close in just under two hours batting. He hit three fours off 84 deliveries Hinds, who survived a few miscued strokes during his marathon, was prepared to attack the regular short bowling. The pull earned him a number of runs but it eventually proved his downfall, a tired stroke lobbed to midon as Waqar returned with the second new ball.
Curtly Ambrose came in as nightwatchman and survived to the end, taken 3.2 overs because of bad light.
Younis took two for 52 off 12 overs and Mushtaq two for 68 off 29 overs. Akram, the most probing of the bowlers, went wicketless.
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