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May 28, 2000
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, MAY 27 (AP) - West Indies captain Jimmy Adams and fellow left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul both hit unbeaten half centuries to lift their team to a strong position over Pakistan at the close of the second day of the teams' third and final cricket Test.
The three-Test Cable & Wireless series is level at 0-0 following draws in the first two matches in Guyana and Barbados. This last Test is to last five days.
Adams was unbeaten 60 and Chanderpaul 68 as the home team closed on 214 for three Friday in reply to the tourists' first innings total of 269.
They came together with the innings at the crossroads at 84 for three a half-hour after lunch. The pair remained solid until the close, adding an unbroken 130 for the fourth wicket in 222 minutes.
Both Adams and Chanderpaul emerged from shaky starts against a testing attack to play with some enterprise toward the end of a day extended because of two slight delays for rain.
The 25-year-old Chanderpaul brought up his 50 the ball before the second rain shower off his 132nd delivery. He counted three fours in reaching his milestone, adding three more before the close.
Adams, in his first season as West Indies captain, followed Chanderpaul to his half-century after resumption. The 30-year-old Jamaican struck four fours in just under three hours, facing 131 balls.
Pakistan, spurred by two wickets from leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed, had caused early trouble for the West Indies.
Sherwin Campbell's dangerous innings of 31 was ended by Ahmed's fifth ball, his pull picking out Yousuf Youhana at midwicket. The West Indies vice-captain hit six fours, one all-run, off 44 balls.
His left-handed partner Adrian Griffith also fell to Ahmed soon after lunch, which the West Indies took at 60 for one.
Griffith failed to make use of two dropped chances, missing a googly to be bowled behind his back for a painstaking 22 off 65 deliveries.
Wavell Hinds, coming off scores of 165 and 52 in the previous Test in Barbados, played with confidence before his misjudgment caused his run out.
The Jamaican left-hander had compiled a well-organized 26 off 54 deliveries when he was caught short by bowler Ahmed's throw back to the wicket-keeper as he was sent back by Chanderpaul.
Pakistan was now rampant, but Adams and Chanderpaul, the two most experienced West Indies batsman, gradually lifted their team out of danger to give their team the edge.
Earlier in the day, world wicket-taking leader Courtney Walsh completed his 100th five-wicket haul in first-class cricket as the West Indies dismissed Pakistan for 269 in the day's first over.
The third ball of the day accounted for Waqar Younis, Walsh's fellow pacer miscuing his hook to backward square leg where Ramnaresh Sarwan hauled in a good catch running back.
Youhana, whose unbeaten 102 lifted Pakistan's first day effort, added a single before he lost last man Ahmed.
Ahmed fell for a duck to Walsh, edging to wicket-keeper Ridley Jacobs, who collected his fourth catch of the innings.
Youhana batted five and a half hours for his third Test century, his second in successive Tests. The 25-year-old faced 231 balls and stroked eight fours and a six.
Jamaican Walsh, who earlier in the home season against Zimbabwe passed Kapil Dev's seven-year-old world record of 434 wickets, finished with five for 83 off 26 overs to stretch his tally to 448. It was Walsh's 19th five-wicket haul in his 117th Test and his second in successive matches following his five for 22 in Pakistan's first innings in Barbados.
Curtly Ambrose took two for 30 off 14 overs, while Franklyn Rose grabbed two for 48 off 19 overs.
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