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London: West Indies did seem to lose the plot at one stage when their batsmen crumbled against a fiery Pakistan bowling attack. In the end, however, Kemar Roach (5*) and Denesh Ramdin (11*) played it cool and took the match home for the Windies with 56 balls to spare.
The Windies struggled throughout their innings as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals.
Dwayne Bravo was the latest casualty for West Indies when he was caught plumb by Saeed Ajmal soon after Kieron Pollard fell victim to Wahab Riaz.
Riaz had Pollard (30) caught behind by Kamran Akmal after the West Indian put up a fighting 43-run partnership for the sixth wicket with Dwayne Bravo.
While Ajmal put a serious dent to the chase when he dismissed dangerous Chris Gayle (39) with his doosra, Mohammad Hafeez got the big wicket of Marlon Samuels (30).
Hafeez bowled a little wide, just out of Samuels reach and got him stumped.
Gayle and Marlon Samuels had managed to steady the West Indies run chase by building a 63-run partnership for the third wicket after they found themselves in early trouble by the loss of two wickets.
Riaz bowled beautifully to take outq veteran Ramnaresh Sarwan for just a run. Facing a short-pitch delivery, Sarwan uncomfortably tried to steer it away from his body but failed in his attempt. Instead, he edged it towards the wicket-keeper.
Mohammad Irfan led the Pakistan bowling attack by dismissing Johnson Charles and Darren Bravo early to rattle the West Indies batsmen.
The 7-foot pacer managed to extract extra bounce from the pitch which troubled the batsmen constantly.
Irfan took out Charles (9) with a bouncer. In his next over, he bowled a short-pitch delivery which Darren Bravo failed to successfully manoeuvre and edged it to the wicket-keeper.
Left-arm pacer Junaid Khan provided an apt support to Irfan from the other end by maintaining the pressure on West Indies batsmen.
Earlier, a disciplined West Indian bowling attack led by Kemar Roach and Sunil Narine bundled out Pakistan for 170 runs.
Late charge by skipper Misbah-ul-Haq (96 n.o.) failed to take Pakistan over the 200-mark. Misbah kept running out of partners on the other end as West Indies bowlers took wickets at regular intervals.
From the beginning, Pakistan batsmen were unable to break the shackles put into place by West Indian bowlers.
Kemar Roach had started the rot with his aggressive spells which saw Pakistan struggling at 15/3.
Pakistan's downfall started with the wicket of opener Imran Farhat (2). Roach had bowled a length delivery which Farhat had tried to cut but, instead, got a healthy edge towards the slips where skipper Dwayne Bravo took it with one-hand.
Next to go was much experienced batsman Mohammad Hafeez (4). Roach bowled a quick but fuller delivery, wide off the crease. Hafeez completely missed the line and was cleaned bowled.
Roach's third victim was Asad Shafiq. The West Indies pacer bowled a short-pitch bouncer to the batsman who tried to cut the bowl but was taken by Ravi Rampaul at short-leg.
The lanky pacer ended his spell with impressive figures of 28/3.
After getting off to a shaky start, skipper Misbah-ul-Haq along with opener Nasir Jamshed (50) tried to consolidate the crumbling Pakistan innings by putting up a 90-run partnership for the fourth wicket. It was the highest partnership for Pakistan in the game.
Both Misbah and Jamshed completed their half-centuries to give their dug-out a sigh of relief. But Jamshed gave his wicket away straight after reaching his seventh ODI fifty when he failed to drive a Sunil Narine delivery over the covers. Ravi Rampaul took a simple catch in the long-off.
Earlier, West Indies captain Bravo won the toss and chose to bowl against Pakistan.
Big news from West Indies. No Darren Sammy, Kieron Pollard has been preferred to Sammy.
Teams
Pakistan Imran Farhat, Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Asad Shafiq, Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal (wk), Saeed Ajmal, Wahab Riaz, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan
West Indies Chris Gayle, Johnson Charles, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Dwayne Bravo (captain), Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Sunil Narine, Kemar Roach
Brief scores
Pakistan 170 (Msbah-ul-Haq 96*, Nasir Jamshed 50, Roach 3-28, Narine 3-34)
West Indies 172/8 (Mohammad Irfan 3-32)
Result West Indies won by 2 wickets
Points West Indies 2, Pakistan 0
MOM Kemar Roach (West Indies)
