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| West Indies vs Zimbabwe, 3rd ODI, Kingstown |
| West Indies skittle Zimbabwe to take 2-1 lead |
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| Date: 10 March, 2010(Wednesday) |
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Cricdb staff writer
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West Indies gained a 2-1 lead in the five-match series with an emphatic 147-run drubbing of Zimbabwe in the third match at Kingstown. The hosts made a largely solid if unspectacular 245 for 9, but it was with the ball that they decimated Zimbabwe, with Darren Sammy's 4 for 26 leading the way.
Kemar Roach (3 for 28) led the way, bowling Vusi Sibanda first over with a screeching yorker. Zimbabwe bounced back briefly, with a strong 51-run stand between Hamilton Masakadza and Brendan Taylor. Masakadza was aggressive, hitting three fours and a six in his run-a-ball 35, including some audacious shots over square leg, but Sammy's introduction yielded immediate dividends.
The seamer, one of the rare consistencies in the side for the last couple of years, struck in his first over, exploiting a favourable track to take a return catch off Taylor. Tatenda Taibu was pried out with a beauty and when Masakadza followed the same dismissal, Zimbabwe had lost four wickets for seven runs and were in disarray.
Roach and Dwayne Bravo, the latter playing his 100th one-day international, probed away as wickets fell in a tumble. But the pick of the bowlers was the smart if unspectacular Sammy, whose ten overs on the trot changed the match. Prosper Utseya cautiously steered the visitors past 100, but Nikita Miller took the final wicket, with Chris Gayle taking the catch at point to seal a comprehensive win.
It turned out to be an unusually clinical performance from the West Indies. They started slowly and scurried at the end, making a steady total. Chris Gayle defended stolidly despite the occasional unwinding; his 33 off 53 balls included a gigantic six off Ray Price that rebounded off the roof and landed in the sea. Adrian Barath was even more sedate, and it was Prosper Utseya who broke their 48-run partnership in his first over, the sixteenth of the innings, with a lovely delivery that had his opposite number stumped.
Utseya then removed Barath (35), leaving the effective Shivnarine Chanderpaul to up the ante. Denesh Ramdin, returning to the side for a promotion to number 4, prepared for a smart stint behind the stumps with a staid one in front of them, and shared 65 with the left-hander, who hit two fours and a six in a brisk 58. Ramdin, occasionally troubled by the wily googlies of Timycen Maruma, eventually fell to the same bowler.
But their dismissals off consecutive balls (151 for 4) surprisingly upped the ante. Run-a-ball cameos from Narsingh Deonarine and Dwayne Bravo preceded a late bout of hitting from the lower order, who wagged heartily with 40 in 22 balls between them, taking West Indies scrambling to 245. Though not a spectacular total, it was substantial, much like Sammy's brilliant performance later in the day.
The writer, Moiz Ibrahim, is a staff writer at Cricdb
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