Although the Caribbean team have lost the series against Pakistan but definitely they have shaken the morale of the winning team. Pakistan was already in lead making it 2-0 at the end of the second game and looking for a clean sweep by winning the third and last game in Dubai. But West Indies was not in mood go give it so easily, Kraigg Brathwaite's heroic performance in the final game has the gifted Caribbean team a much-needed consolidation victory to feel good at the end of the series.
Taking ahead of the game defeat, Pakistan coach Mickey Arthur has said it a wake-up call for the home team and ask them to take it as a lesson for the coming series against NZ and Australia.
"It is a wake-up call," Arthur told AFP. "Hopefully that gives the shock to the players they needed before our tough tours to New Zealand and Australia." "It's a good wake-up call and just says that if you're off your discipline in international cricket at any time you can be beaten," said Arthur, who took over in May.
"We certainly took the pedal off the accelerator in this game and were below in standards and intensity," he added. "Any team in their conditions is extremely hard to play," said Arthur. "If you look around the international cricket at the moment there is no easy bait in their own conditions so it's going to be five tough matches for us."
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