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The score line now stands at 3-1 in its place of 4-0, and though it's not sufficient to get them back into the series, it is however an important crumb of calm for a team that had not beaten senior Test opponent for the best part of two years. Their eight-wicket victory at Kingston in June 2009 was the previous such time, so the chance to scrape the score line back to 3-2, with the two-Test succession to follow, is not one that have to to be sniff at.
Pakistan, however, look for the instant to be an enviably established unit - and given their new history, that debatably says more about West Indies' current disorder than no matter which else, even if their chief selector Mohsin Khan is receiving prepared to rock their boat ahead of the Test series. The equanimity shown by Mohammad Hafeez in his second ODI hundred, and by Asad Shafiq in their 153-run stand for the second wicket, set the tone for what should have been a frightening total, until Devendra Bishoo's wiles derail the latter stages of the innings.
There are clear signs of life in the West Indies squad, with Bishoo's enthusiasm matched by Lendl Simmons' early ambush, in which he belt a 36-ball half-century to push their rain-affected run-chase. But as the remember of Ramnaresh Sarwan confirmed, not to declare the ongoing issues nearby Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the changing of the guard in the Caribbean looks set to be a messy and extended affair. Better times may lie ahead, but one dead-rubber win can barely be taken as verification of a new dawn.
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