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Heartbreak For Saim Ayub! PAK Opener Fails To Learn As Seales Proves Too Hot To Handle Again

Aashay Chopade

Saim Ayub's wicket in 2nd ODI (Source: Screengrab/FanCode)Saim Ayub's wicket in 2nd ODI (Source: Screengrab/FanCode)

Saim Ayub is one of the most highly rated young cricketers in Pakistan and has started his international career on a bright note. Thus, there were a lot of expectations that he would do well against the West Indies in the ODI series, but he has failed to live upto the billing.

Saim Ayub Falls After Breezy Start In The 2nd ODI

In the first match, Saim Ayub departed for just five, and though he started well in the second game, he lost his wicket at a score of 23. He played 31 balls and hit 4 fours and a six in his knock, but just when he was looking set, Jayden Seales got the better of him.

Saim Ayub fell on the third ball of the ninth over, and it was Jayden Seales who got the better of him. It was a short of a good-length delivery, angling across the left-hander. Saim Ayub tried to punch it towards the leg side, but all he could manage was an outside edge, and the ball flew towards short third man. Justin Greaves, stationed there, took a sharp catch, and Pakistan, after a decent start, lost their first wicket at a score of 37.

Saim Ayub's Struggle Against Jayden Seales In West Indies Continues

Interestingly, in the first match too, Jayden Seales dismissed Saim Ayub with a similar delivery. At that time, Saim Ayub handed an edge to the keeper Shai Hope, and it seems to be a case of the batter not learning from his mistake.

This is the first ODI series in which Saim Ayub is not going well, as in the previous two series against Zimbabwe and South Africa, the batter scored a lot of runs. Unfortunately for Pakistan, Babar Azam fell on the last ball of the same over, and the visitors have been jolted early in the second ODI. Pakistan won the first game of the series, and after two early wickets, West Indies would like to level the series now.