West Indies Escape With Thrilling Tie

St Lucia: West Indies number 11 Jason Holder smashed 14 runs off the final over to earn his side a dramatic tie with Pakistan in the third one-day international at Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia on Friday.

Bungling Pakistan wicketkeeper Umar Akmal had the opportunity to run out the player off the final ball but missed a simple throw from the boundary to allow the stranded Holder to make his ground and level the scores.

Pakistan looked to be heading for victory having posted a modest 229 for six wickets in their 50 overs, but the final West Indian pair of Holder and Kemar Roach struck 24 off 13 balls to leave the five-match series tied at 1-1.

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq opted to give seamer Wahab Riaz (1-63) the final over of the innings despite a poor showing in the match up to that point as he missed his lengths all too often.

Holder bludgeoned a six and a four to give his side hope. Needing three to win off the final ball, he flashed a thick edge to third man where Junaid Khan collected.

Khan's throw over the stumps looked certain to run out Holder and hand the victory to Pakistan but Akmal somehow failed to collect and the tailender was able to scramble home having scored an invaluable 19 off nine deliveries.

Lendl Simmonds had earlier struck a fluent 75 from 86 balls and put on 91 for the fourth wicket with Marlon Samuels (46) to put West Indies into a position to win the game.

However, excellent bowling from seamer Junaid (3-54) and off-spinner Saeed Ajmal (3-36) appeared to have taken the game away from them before Holder's heroics.

Pakistan's innings was propped up by a fighting 75 from Misbah, with Akmal (40 not out) providing the only other score of real significance.

The fourth one-day international will be played at the same venue on Sunday.

Earlier, West Indies have won the toss and decided to bowl first..

Dwayne Bravo wants his fast bowlers to make use of the early moisture and is going in with an unchanged XI.

Debutant Haris Sohail and Junaid Khan are the two changes in the Pakistan squad, replacing Asad Ali and Asad Shafiq.

Teams

West Indies Chris Gayle, Johnson Charles (wk), Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Lenle Simmons, Dwayne Bravo (Captain), Kieron Pollard, Darren Sammy, Kemar Koach, Sunil Narine, Jason Holder

Pakistan Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Misbah-ul-Haq (Captain), Haris Sohail, Umar Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi, Wahab Riaz, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Irfan

Brief scores
Pakistan 229 for 6 (Misbah 75, Akmal 40*)
West Indies 229 for 9 (Simmons 75, Samuels 46, Ajmal 3-36)
Result Tied
MOM Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan) and Lendl Simmons (West Indies)

Scores	Upcoming	Results
South Africa vs Pakistan - 3rd ODI 4th Test - Australia v India - December 26-30, 23:30 GMT 1st Test - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan - December 26-30, 07:30 GMT 3rd ODI - Zimbabwe v Afghanistan at Harare Afghanistan won by 8 wickets (with 139 balls remaining) 3rd T20I - West Indies v Bangladesh at St Vincent Bangladesh won by 80 runs

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