Pakistan Pull Off Record Run Chase To Beat West Indies In 3rd T20I, Sweep Series
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Pakistan reached the 208-run target in 18.5 overs. This is Pakistan's highest run chase in the shortest format of the game and also the joint highest by any team against West Indies.
Pakistan pulled off their highest Twenty20 international run-chase in a seven-wicket win over the West Indies on Thursday to complete a 3-0 series win in Karachi. Mohammad Rizwan smacked 87 off 45 balls and captain Babar Azam made 79 as the opening pair put on 158 to help Pakistan reach a target of 208 in 18.5 overs in a match that was nearly called off because of Covid cases. The match was eventually given the go-ahead despite five members -- including three players -- of the West Indies squad testing positive on Thursday. That took the total of positive cases in the tourists' camp to nine after three players and a staff member tested positive on Saturday.
West Indies skipper Nicholas Pooran hit a career-best 37-ball 64 with six sixes and two fours as his side finished on 207-3.
Pakistan won the first match by 63 runs and the second by nine runs, both in Karachi.
This is their seventh 3-0 whitewash in Twenty20 international cricket, and their third against the West Indies.
Rizwan, who overturned a first-ball leg-before decision against him, and Azam took the attack to the West Indies bowlers with a stand of 158 in 15 overs.
