West Indies win toss, send Pakistan in to bat

West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl first in the second match of the ICC World Cup 2019 against Pakistan at Bristol County Ground on Friday.

The match is scheduled to start at 3:30pm Bangladesh Time.

It is a case opposing fortunes for the two teams as West Indies have been in great form in the lead-up to the tournament while Pakistan are stuttering.

The Windies were put into bat by New Zealand in one of their warm-up games and they ended up giving the Kiwis a mammoth target of 422 runs. Shai Hope scored a hundred while Andre Russell plundered a quick-fire half-century.

New Zealand could only manage 330 runs in reply as they lost their second warm-up match by 91 runs.

On the other hand, Pakistan have been on a terrible run of games recently. They are on a 10-game losing streak in One Day Internationals in 2019 as they suffered two successive winless series against Australia (5-0) and England (4-0) respectively.

Pakistan: 1 Imam-ul-Haq, 2 Fakhar Zaman 3 Babar Azam, 4 Haris Sohail 5 Sarfaraz Ahmed (capt, wk), 6 Mohammad Hafeez 7 Imad Wasim, 8 Shadab Khan, 9 Mohammad Amir, 10 Hasan Ali 11 Wahab Riaz

West Indies:1 Chris Gayle 2 Shai Hope (wk) 3 Darren Bravo 4 Shimron Hetmyer 5 Nicholas Pooran 6 Andre Russell 7 Jason Holder (capt) 8 Carlos Brathwaite 9 Ashley Nurse 10 Sheldon Cottrell 11 Oshane Thomas