The Pakistani team unsuccessfully appeals for LBW against West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul off Rao Iftikhar's bowling, right, in the second one-day international of the Fortune Cup, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, yesterday. - AP

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP):

A strong bowling display helped Pakistan beat the West Indies by 24 runs yesterday in the second One-Day International and also gave the team victory in the three-match series.

Batting first after winning the toss, Pakistan were all out for 232 in 49 overs, almost 40 runs short of the target they were hoping to set.

Despite a century by Shivnarine Chanderpaul (107 not out), the capacity crowd at the 20,000-seat Zayed Stadium, comprising mostly of Pakistan supporters, were not disappointed as the West Indies were bowled out for 208.

In the first match Wednesday, Pakistan won by four wickets. The final match of the series is tomorrow.

"This is a huge confidence-boosting win for Pakistan after all the setbacks we have had," captain Shoaib Malik said. "The total we put up was less than what we wanted to, but our bowlers did an excellent job.

"We went into the match with an extra spinner in Saeed Ajmal and he did the job for us after Sohail Tanveer gave us a great start."

Superb deliveries

The victory was set up by Tanveer, who first contributed 26 runs in 20 deliveries for Pakistan and later picked up 3-32. The left-arm paceman had six wides in his first three overs, but also bowled two superb deliveries to remove both the West Indies openers before they could score a run.

Captain Chris Gayle, who scored a century in the first match, was bowled by an in-swinging yorker in the last ball of his first over. And all Sewnarine Chattergoon could do against a ball that left him late was nick it to wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal.

"It's a young team and we performed well, but we can't just keep saying that. We need to step up and win," Gayle said. "Chanderpaul and (Ramnaresh) Sarwan batted well and steadied the innings after we lost two quick wickets, but once Sarwan was out, we kept losing wickets at regular intervals and could not put up any meaningful partnership."

Chanderpaul hit an extremely scratchy knock and he was dropped twice - on 17 and 63 - by Ajmal. The bowler to suffer the first time was Umar Gul, followed by Shahid Afridi.

The West Indian, named the ICC Cricketer of the Year for his consistent performance in 2007-08, laboured to his 50 in 94 balls. Both his boundaries until then were results of inside edges which whistled past the wickets. He was a little better thereafter, reaching his ninth ODI hundred in 139 balls with six fours. But once the West Indies lost Sarwan (45) after adding 92 for the third wicket with Chanderpaul, it was a lost cause for the Caribbeans.

Ajmal may have dropped the two catches of Chanderpaul, but the off-spinner bowled well enough to take 1-38 and contained the West Indies batsmen along with Shahid Afridi (1-42). Umar Gul (3-44) was the most successful bowler for Pakistan.

Earlier, West Indies put on a display of line and length bowling to restrict Pakistan to 232.

Pakistan made a disappointing start when they lost both their openers inside the first three overs. They kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were bowled out with exactly one over to spare.

Near misses

Pakistan's lack of international match experience in recent times showed, especially with the way they ran between the wickets. There were two run outs and two near misses as most of the batsmen failed to communicate with each other.

Opening bowlers Daren Powell and Jerome Taylor took three wickets each, but Lionel Baker, playing only his second match, gave away just 35 runs in his 10 overs and took the important wicket of Pakistan's Kamran Akmal (45). Misbah-ul-Haq top-scored with 52.