Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"It's very hard to see Bravo batting again or maybe even playing again in this tournament."

Windies decide to strike while the iron is hot and take the batting powerplay. Misbah responds by bringing Wahab back into the attack.

Poor Darren Bravo is in the wars today - now he's pulled up with what appears to be a hamstring injury after running a sharp single. We're going to take a drinks break while he receives treatment.

Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport at the World Cup

"Spotted on my flight from Wellington to Christchurch, umpires Paul Reiffel and Rod Tucker. It's nice to know they travel together. A couple of seats in front, there's also a pair of pilots, fully uniformed up. Comforting - you can never have enough pilots."

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You sensed West Indies would have to target one of the part-time Pakistani bowlers at some stage, and it's Denesh Ramdin who finally makes a big move against Haris Sohail.

He takes a liking to the first ball of the over, clearing the front leg and hitting against the spin over midwicket. Glorious shot. The second ball is short and Ramdin smashes it through the covers for another four, and then he repeats the dose with another sweep over vacant square leg. And another one! He cuts hard and beats Mohammed Irfan at point for his fourth boundary of a big over.

Ramdin now has from 30 from 17 - valuable impetus for the Windies.

West Indies 133-3 from 30 overs (Pakistan won toss)

Run rate: 4.43 per over

Batsmen: Bravo 47, Ramdin 13

Fall of wickets: 17-1 (Gayle 4), 28-2 (Smith 23), 103-3 (Samuels 38)

Bowling figures: Irfan 7-0-36-1, Sohail Khan 5-1-20-1, Afridi 7-0-26-0, Haris Sohail 5-0-20-1, Riaz 5-0-22-0, Sohaib 1-0-8-0

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Radio 5 live sports extra commentary

This match is right in the balance I reckon. With three wickets down and 130 on the board, neither side has a decisive advantage. Who is going to step up for their side in the latter stages of this innings?

Could it be Mohammed Irfan? He has frustrated the Windies batsmen today and he fires down a good over, just two singles from it.

Graeme Swann
Ex-England spinner

On Twitter, external talking about the prospects of any play between Australia and Bangladesh at 03:30 GMT:

"It's absolutely banging it down here in Brisbane. No play tonight unless it's a swimming competition I reckon."

Another one down! That's the fourth drop for Pakistan, and again it's Afridi, uncharacteristically, who puts it down. Darren Bravo, who has played a well-judged little innings up to now, wellies it to square leg, but Afridi can't hold on. Tough chance in fairness, but could Pakistan look back ruefully on those missed chances at the end of this match?

The Maqsood Experiment is over. Misbah, sensing blood in the water, brings back his opening bowler Mohammed Irfan. Ramdin collects his first boundary with a curious baseball-style shot that finds the rope at mid-off. Not sure it was meant to go there.

Ramdin is more adept than most of the Windies batsmen at pinching singles and rotating the strike, and he picks up a couple of sharp ones too. Nine off the over, a good one for West Indies.

Ian:, external Think Windies will need 260 plus to stand a chance to beat Pakistan. Bravo has to play himself back in. Can see regular wickets.

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Haris Sohail now has seven wickets in his 13 ODIs - he's only ever taken one wicket in any format outside international cricket.

The Windies batsmen show him plenty of respect - knocking him for five singles.

Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special

"In the 1992 World Cup winning team, Pakistan had three world-class stars but this side doesn't have that. Afridi and Misbah are both nearing the end of their careers and apart from them they don't really have enough match-winners."

What a good breakthrough for Pakistan at the halfway stage of the innings. You'd say they've just got their noses in front at this stage. They do have to get ten overs out of non-specialist bowlers though (including Haris Sohail) - now Misbah introduces the off-spin of Sohaib Maqsood.

He's only over bowled three overs in ODIs before this, and it shows as he offers Bravo width and is cut through cover point for four.

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Denesh Ramdin is the new man. He's off the mark with a single to long-on. Three from the over.

Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special

"That was on the cards. Samuels was playing some strange shots and thankfully a Pakistan fielder has taken a catch at last. It's a bad dismissal from the West Indies point of view to lose a wicket at this stage when the batsman is well set. That's not good enough from Marlon Samuels."

We often see a drinks break bring a wicket, and perhaps the short interruption there has done for Marlon Samuels's concentration.

He was itching to take on the fifth bowler Haris Sohail, but that's not the way to do it - he advances down the track but slices his shot and it's straight into the hands of Yasir Shah at long-off.

Darren Bravo is OK to continue, which is great to see. Younus Khan sportingly puts an arm around the recovered batsman. He tucks a single off his pads.

Samuels has outrageous hand-eye co-ordination that enables him to make the most audacious cross-bat shots look simple. Wahab sends down a short ball at express pace, but Samuels stretches onto his tiptoes to swat it to the cow-corner fence. Ridiculous stroke. Samuels looked a little more cautious when Wahab first came into the attack, but he's back into shot-a-ball mode now.

Now, some concern for Darren Bravo as the batsmen pinch a quick single and the throw from the fielder strikes him on the side of the head. That looked really nasty - the ball was flung hard. Let's hope he's OK.

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Ramiz Raja
Ex-Pakistan captain on BBC Test Match Special

"Pakistan need wickets in the middle phase and created opportunities but I think Pakistan have missed a trick in not playing another leg-spinner. Pakistan have often got the better of West Indies, even back in the 1980s, because the West Indies struggle against spin."

Afridi continues with that familiar action, his wrist curling over the ball like a coiled cobra. He just hasn't quite found his most menacing form today though, and again the batsmen pocket three relatively untroubled singles. Will Pakistan be regretting not playing the other leggie, Yasir Shah?