West Indies’ vulnerable top-order batting was again exploited by Pakistan after choosing to bat first.
Despite a surface that offered very little assistance to the faster bowlers, the Caribbean team lost their first three wickets after just over an hour.
Mohamed Amir was the first to strike for Pakistan against a batting line-up that was surprisingly unchanged from the seven-wicket defeat in Jamaica, the selectors resisting calls for to bring in middle-order batsman Jermaine Blackwood.
Kraigg Brathwaite enjoyed a moment of good fortune when he was dropped at short extra-cover off Amir.
However the lapse did not prove costly for the visitors as Amir took the outside edge of the opener’s bat in the same over to give a straightforward catch to wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed.
Shimron Hetmyer, one of two batting debutants from a week earlier, faced just three deliveries before driving loosely at the other opening bowler, Mohamed Abbas, for Azhar Ali to take a sharp catch head-high at second slip.
Shai Hope’s struggle for runs continued when he was caught at the wicket off Yasir Shah, the leg-spinner extracting sharp turn off the first-day pitch.
Kieran Powell, top scorer with 49 amid the West Indies’ second innings capitulation in the first Test in Kingston, was sent back by Amir in the seventh over after lunch for 38, bringing an end to the 65-run partnership with Roston Chase, who was unbeaten at 70 at tea.
Vishaul Singh (3) was the next to go edging one to Younis Khan in second slip off Abbas.
Shadab Khan, the man of the series in the four-match T20 contest who also enjoyed success in the three one-day internationals preceding the Tests, picked up his maiden Test wicket after Shane Dowrich nicked one to the slips for Younis to claim yet another low catch.
SCORECARD (at tea)
WEST INDIES 1st Innings
K. Brathwaite c Ahmed b Amir 9
K. Powell lbw Amir 38
S. Hetmyer c Ali b Abbas 1
S. Hope c Ahmed b Shah 5
R. Chase not out 70
V. Singh c Younis b Abbas 3
S. Dowrich c Younis b Shadab 29
J. Holder not out 0
Extras (b-4, lb-5, w-2) 11
Total (6 wkts, 54 overs) 166
Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Brathwaite), 2-13 (Hetmyer), 3-37 (Hope), 4-102 (Powell), 5-107 (Singh), 6-154 (Dowrich)
Bowling: M. Amir 15-4-26-2, M. Abbas 11-2-30-2 (2w), Y. Shah 17-1-66-1, S. Khan 11-3-35-1
