West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves made Test cricket history on \u2060Monday by becoming the \u2060first bowler in the recorded \u2060era to take wickets in five consecutive maiden overs during the opening Test against Pakistan in Tarouba.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old returned figures of five for 27 on the third day, producing a spell that helped swing the World Test Championship contest \u200cin the hosts\u2019 favour.<\/p>\n
Greaves surpassed the previous record of four consecutive wicket maidens, set by former England fast bowler Stuart Broad against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2016.<\/p>\n
Playing in his 17th Test, the Barbadian claimed his maiden five-wicket haul as Pakistan were bowled out for 282 in reply to West Indies\u2019 first-innings total of \u2060311.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I came on captain Roston Chase just said \u2018continue to be disciplined in what you \u200care doing\u2019 and to see if I can get some wickets for the team,\u201d Greaves said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ball nipped around and I got some \u200creward. Anytime I get the ball in hand the team looks to me \u2060to be that \u2060solid player for them [and] try to dig us out of situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves made Test cricket history on \u2060Monday by becoming the \u2060first bowler in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[401994,401993,64,63,740,1208,81225,316689,51273,15299,26819,316688,1183,85,131013,401992,1212,125238],"class_list":["post-828690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-aamer-jamal","tag-ali-usman","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-england","tag-justin-greaves","tag-mohammad-abbas","tag-mohammad-rizwan","tag-pakistan","tag-roston-chase","tag-shan-masood","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-stuart-broad","tag-tarouba","tag-west-indies","tag-world-test-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}