Justin Greaves sets new cricket bowling record with five wicket maiden

What the report says

Al Jazeera, citing Reuters, reported that West Indies all-rounder Justin Greaves made Test cricket history in the first Test against Pakistan at Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago, by becoming the first bowler in the recorded era to deliver five consecutive wicket-maiden overs. The spell came on the third day of the match, Monday, July 27, 2026, with the report published July 28.

Greaves, a 32-year-old Barbadian playing his 17th Test, finished with 5-27, his first five-wicket haul in the format. His burst helped turn the innings after Pakistan had reached 244-3, led by Shan Masood’s 109. Greaves removed Masood and then dismissed Aamer Jamal, Ali Usman and Mohammad Rizwan in successive maiden overs before adding Mohammad Abbas after lunch to complete the record sequence.

The performance surpassed the previous mark of four consecutive wicket maidens, which Al Jazeera reported was set by England’s Stuart Broad against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2016. Pakistan were bowled out for 282, 29 runs behind West Indies’ first-innings 311, giving the hosts an advantage in the World Test Championship contest.

The match remained finely balanced by stumps, as Pakistan responded by reducing West Indies to 126-7 in their second innings. Even so, the home side led by 155 runs entering the fourth day, with Greaves’s spell standing out as both a personal milestone and a rare entry in Test cricket’s record books.