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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 sweep 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 Babar took the attack to the West Indies bowlers with a stand of 158 in 15 overs.
Babar, who hit nine fours and two sixes in his 53-ball knock, holed out to…