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Will Macpherson

West Indies vs England: Saqib Mahmood relieved to take first Test wickets after ‘feeling like a criminal’

Saqib Mahmood celebrates the wicket of West Indies’ Veerasammy Permaul

(Picture: AP)

England’s Saqib Mahmood said he felt like a “criminal” when denied his maiden Test wicket by a no-ball, and expressed relief and delight at taking a legal scalp a day later.

Mahmood bowled West Indies’ Jermaine Blackwood on the third afternoon of the second Test in Barbados, but the wicket was chalked off for a front-foot no-ball, with Blackwood eventually dismissed for 102.

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