Match factsOctober 21-25, 2016 Start time 10am local time (0600 GMT)Big
PictureAfter lop-sided T20 and ODI series, West Indies fought to make the
day-night Test in Dubai a thriller.
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China . While Pakistan eventually won in the last hour of play on
the fifth day, they had to work hard for the 1-0 lead as West Indies showed
resilience for two long days, thanks to Darren Bravos plucky 116. Bravo held the
sides chase together, taking the team to within 83 runs of the target of 346
before being dismissed.West Indies also had other strong performances - Devendra
Bishoos record 8 for 49, and Marlon Samuels 76 in the first innings - and
through their performance in the second innings appeared to have regrouped as a
team after the limited-overs losses.The attention on the day-night Test and the
pink ball will now shift to the traditional day game and the red ball. For
Pakistan, the likely return of Younis Khan, who was added to the squad after
recovering from dengue fever, will be a boost to a batting line-up that
floundered without his calming influence in the second innings in Dubai. Azhar
Alis form at the top of the order will be important, as will Yasir Shah, but
West Indies can look at Bravos innings in Dubai for lessons on how to tackle
Yasir. A 3-0 scoreline is not unlikely for Pakistan but they will probably have
to work harder for it than they had to in the limited-overs series.Form
guidePakistan: WWLLW (last five completed matches, most recent first)West
Indies: LDLDLIn the spotlightInducted into the opening slot, Sami Aslam has
struggled to convert his starts into big runs in the five Tests he has played
in. In Dubai, he scored 90 in the first innings and 44 in the second but couldnt
go on and reach a century. Similarly, on the tour of England, he scored 82 and
70 in the Edgbaston Test.The conditions in the UAE make it tough for fast
bowlers to get wickets, and West Indies troubles have been compounded by the
lack of effectiveness of frontline bowler Shannon Gabriel. Although he
consistently bowled at speeds of over 140kph in Dubai, Gabriel couldnt find the
wickets while also struggling to control the run rate as much as his Pakistan
counterpart Wahab Riaz. His trouble with no-balls in the first innings - he
bowled 10 - was also an issue for West Indies. He will have to step up for them
to fare better.Team newsBabar Azam, who made his debut in Dubai, may make way
for Younis Khan in the playing XI. Pakistan may also look at bringing in
left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar in place of Mohammad Nawaz, who also made his
debut in Dubai.Pakistan (possible): 1 Sami Aslam, 2 Azhar Ali, 3 Younis Khan, 4
Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Asad Shafiq, 6 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 7 Mohammad Nawaz, 8
Wahab Riaz, 9 Yasir Shah, 10 Mohammad Amir, 11 Sohail Khan.While there are a few
weak links, West Indies may not want to tamper too much with a combination that
fought hard in the first Test.West Indies (possible): 1 Kraigg Brathwaite, 2
Leon Johnson, 3 Darren Bravo, 4 Marlon Samuels, 5 Jermaine Blackwood, 6 Roston
Chase, 7 Shane Dowrich (wk), 8 Jason Holder (capt), 9 Devendra Bishoo, 10 Miguel
Cummins, 11 Shannon Gabriel.Pitch and conditionsThe pitch for the previous Test
in Abu Dhabi, between England and Pakistan in October last year, drew criticism
for its unresponsive nature. In matches prior to that one, however, the pitch
offered some assistance to seamers and spinners. The weather is expected to be
clear in Abu Dhabi for the course of the game.Stats and triviaDarren Bravo has
made 1507 runs in Asia at an average of 60.28, the third-best for any overseas
batsman with at least 1500 runs in Asia. Bravo has hit five hundreds and seven
fifties in just 15 Tests in AsiaMisbah-ul-Haq is set to equal Imran Khans record
of captaining Pakistan in the most Tests. The Abu Dhabi match will be Misbahs
48th Test as captainPakistan have a 4-0 win-loss record from eight Tests in Abu
Dhabi - the most they have played and won at any venue without losing a
matchMarlon Samuels made his debut in 2000 and has played 69 Tests. He needs
another 146 runs to complete 4000 runs in the formatQuotesI am very happy the
way Pakistan won the Test, the way Azhar scored a triple hundred and joined that
elite group. I was watching the match and was very excited when on the last day
there were ups and downs. The way West Indies fought and Darren Bravo scored
that fighting hundred, its pleasing when youngsters play like this.Younis Khan
was watching the Dubai Test closely from the sidelines, and was happy to see a
good contestWe are accustomed to the conditions, only pink ball was new to us.
Our body needed to get accustomed to the clock, bowling in the night and the
afternoon start. Now we have the whole day, and it is a small adjustment.Jason
Holder on the challenges of going back to day cricket after five days of playing
in the night
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his Braves debut when he beat his former team in Chicago in April of 1993. Cubs
fan Dan Lepse remembers it well.Cubs lost 1-0, he said. Coldest I have ever been
in my life.Lepse also recalls it was the day he proposed under the Wrigley Field
marquee to his future wife Tricia, who immediately ran for the bathroom because
it was the only place that had heat.The first person she told we were engaged
was the bathroom attendant, he said.Ah, the Cub fan. Much has been said, mocked
and dissected in regard to this unique species. Motivated by a deep, often
familial and civic loyalty, energized by unbridled and childlike optimism and
distinguished by a gnawing and perpetual state of angst, Cubs fans may resemble
those from other cities and towns, but its the rare combination of these traits
that sets them apart.Psychiatrist and lifelong Cubs devotee Neal Spira would not
go so far as to mix business and pleasure and say Cubs fans are a textbook
example of any particular psychosis.No, no, not textbook, Spira said. Maybe a
paper, though. You could definitely write a paper about the psychology of the
Cubs fan.Dr. Leo Weinstein, Spiras colleague at the Chicago Institute for
Psychoanalysis, goes back to a central theme of psychotherapy in probing Cubs
fans, and the theory that unconscious childhood feelings get expressed in
adulthood.It taps into this feeling a lot of us have that things should be fair,
that people should take turns and its our turn to win, he said. It also taps
into the idea a lot of us believe subconsciously that if you suffer enough,
youll be rewarded.Cubs fans have suffered for 108 years, so it only makes sense
well be rewarded -- not because our team is good or that Theo Epstein and the
front office have assembled a winning team, but because its right. And when
[that] turns out not to be true, were upset. People have a hard time giving up
that feeling ... but its a problematic way to live your life.Dan Lepse laughs at
the prognosis but doesnt altogether dispute it.Lepse is a resident of Seattle,
and he became a Cubs fan for life at age 8, when his father took him on a
Midwestern baseball swing after their hometown Pilots moved to Milwaukee. On
their trip to Wrigley, Seattle native Ron Santo hit a home run, Fergie Jenkins
earned the win and a little boy fell in love.This year, Dan and Tricia
celebrated their Sandberg anniversary, or in laymens terms, their 23rd. (Ryne
Sandberg played as a second baseman for the Cubs and wore No. 23.)In addition to
remembering the 40-degree temperatures and the wind whipping off the lake on
that day in April 93, Dan also remembers his wife being none too happy with the
amount of time she had to wait [for the proposal].But I guess that was the Cubs
fan in me, he said.
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more.The couple have three daughters: Sammy (after Sosa), Kerry (after Wood) and
Addison (after the street bordering Wrigley). Dan has a Wrigley Field turnstile
in his house.And when Lepse interviewed for his current job of sports
information director at Seattle Pacific University eight years ago, he told them
if the Cubs made the World Series, he would need to take that week off.Lepse
would buy a ticket and go see the Cubs by himself during summer visits to his
brother in Chicago.I have seen so many things in that ballpark that should have
driven me away, things major leaguers should never do, the bad baseball you
encountered seeing the Cubs at Wrigley for any number of years, Lepse said. Ive
left the park really frustrated. But theres something about going to see a win,
even if your team [is] in last place. Thats uplifting. Its not a lost
cause.Psychologist and happiness researcher Stephen Schueller likened the
addiction and devotion Cubs fans have to their team to learned helplessness.As
things replay over and over, its easy to rationalize away a one-year thing, said
Schueller, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern. You fail
so often, you feel theres nothing you can do.Youre doomed to fail because youre
a Cubs fan. Its a little sad. But Im an optimistic person, so I hope they win
and break the curse.Of course, they already have broken the one that extends 71
years, the last time the team reached the World Series, which comes into some
conflict with Schuellers study of happiness.Happiness is based on low
expectations, he explained. When you have high expectations, a lot has to be
delivered to get emotional. The Cubs were always that team you didnt expect to
make it. ... But this year, they were a team of destiny and started out the
season on such a historic pace, so fans had really high expectations, and thats
really dangerous as far as ones emotional impact.A World Series loss could be
very tough to take.It will be really hard on people, depending on how it goes,
Spira said. If they really fold, I think people will be destroyed. If they go
for it, people could feel good about it.Its inconceivable to some that the Cubs
traditional cry of Wait til next year would take on a whole new meaning if they
win the World Series. In the meantime, that long lost child in every Cubs fan
can do little but wait.It has been 108 years [since the Cubs last won the World
Series], so its long overdue, Weinstein said. For that reason, the thinking
goes, we will win. The worlds magical forces will make the world just.Every
year, were just waiting for justice to occur.
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