PROVIDENCE, Guyana: Pakistan have to make 234 runs to win the third and final One-day International and also the three-match series against West Indies here at the Providence Stadium on Tuesday.
Batting first after winning the toss, West Indies lost three early wickets for 68 in the 19th over when Shai Hope and Jason Mohammaed joined together to add 101 runs for the fourth wicket stand.
Hope made 71 and Mohammed scored 59 and both hit two sixes each.
However, the latter batsmen could not maintain the scoring rate as Pakistani bowlers restricted the hosts to 233 for nine in the 50 overs.
For Pakistan, fast bowlers Mohammad Amir and Junaid Khan, and young leg-spinner Shadab Khan claimed two wickets each while Hasan Ali and Imad Wasim took one wicket each.
On the heels of a 74-run defeat in the second match on Sunday which levelled the series at 1-1, the home side dropped 20-year-old fast bowler Alzarri Joseph and drafted in left-arm spinner Veerasammy Permaul for his first ODI in three-and-a-half years while Pakistan retained the same eleven that rebounded from defeat in the opening match.