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Test-best for Shoaib
Wisden CricInfo staff - January 31, 2002
Shoaib Akhtar took 5 for 24 in 16 overs, his best figures in his 18th Test, beating his 5 for 43 against South Africa at Durban in 1997-98.
Abdur Razzaq took three wickets in his fourth over of the second innings. He took a hat-trick against Sri Lanka at Galle in 1999-2000.
West Indies lost their last seven wickets for 25 runs, including a collapse of six wickets for nine runs (146 for 3 to 155 for 9). West Indies have now lost their last four Tests, and 22 of their last 26 overseas Tests, including their last 11 matches away from home (two against England, five against Australia, and three against Sri Lanka).
Ryan Hinds made 62 in his first Test innings. He is the first West Indian to make a half-century on debut since Ramnaresh Sarwan, who made 84 not out against Pakistan in Barbados in 1999-2000, and the first to do so overseas since Sherwin Campbell made 51 against New Zealand at Christchurch in 1994-95.
Campbell, playing his first Test for a year, made 6 batting at No. 3. It is the first time in his 52-Test career that he has batted anywhere other than opener.
This is the first Test to be played at the Sharjah CA Stadium, which has already hosted 181 one-day internationals. Sharjah becomes the 83rd ground to stage Test cricket. This is the first Test ever to be played in a non-Test country, and only the fifth on neutral territory, after the three Australia-South Africa matches in the 1912 Triangular Tournament in England, and the Pakistan-Sri Lanka final of the 1998-99 Asian Test Championship, which was played at Dhaka in Bangladesh.
Yousuf Youhana's century was his ninth in his 36th Test. It was his third in four Tests against West Indies.
Rashid Latif hit his first Test century, in his 28th Test. His previous-highest score (94) came in the first Test against Bangladesh in January 2002. Latif is only the fourth Pakistan wicketkeeper to score a Test century, after Imtiaz Ahmed (3), Moin Khan (3) and Taslim Arif (1).
Rashid Latif also made his 100th Test dismissal, when he caught Wavell Hinds in the second innings. He is the fourth Pakistyan wicketkeeper to reach this landmark, after Wasim Bari (228 dismissals), Moin Khan (134) and Salim Yousuf (104).
Youhana and Latif put on 204 for the sixth wicket - just short of Pakistan's record for that wicket against West Indies, 206 by Inzamam-ul-Haq and Abdur Razzaq at Georgetown in 1999-2000.
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