West Indies win third and final one-day international
Thursday, May 20, 2004
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AFP): Devon Smith
flicked a delivery from Mushfiqur Rahman through square leg for a single to
formalise a West Indies seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in their
weather-affected third and final one-day international to complete a 3-0
series sweep.
Chasing a modest target of 119 in 25 overs,
West Indies hit the jackpot with five balls to spare and never looked in
danger of conceding the match.
Left-hander Smith, later named
man-of-the-match, hit one six and one four in the top score of 39 not out from
70 balls to anchor West Indies to the target in front of his vocal home crowd.
After rain delayed the start of play by
nearly four hours, Dwayne Smith unveiled another side of his cricket
potential, when he captured three wickets for 24 runs from four overs to help
West Indies restrict Bangladesh to 118 for seven from their reduced allotment
of 25 overs.
Brief flashes of brilliance from Ricardo
Powell and Dwayne Smith, the man-of-the-series winner, gave West Indies early
momentum in the chase before they were dismissed to leave Devon Smith,
Shivnarine Chanderpaul and West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan to bring it
home.
Earlier, the visitors were indebted to
Habibul Bashar for giving them the backbone for a respectable total.
The Bangladesh captain hit four boundaries
in the top score of 42 off 45 balls. He became one of Smith's victims after
adding 47 for the third wicket with Rajin Saleh.
Smith broke through when he had Saleh caught
behind in the 16th over, and added Faisal Hossain and Bashar in the space of
four balls in the 20th over to send Bangladesh crashing to 89 for four.
West Indies then kept a tight lid on the
Bangladesh batsmen in the last five overs.
Scoreboard of the rain-affected third and
final one-day international: Bangladesh
(innings reduced to 25 overs)
Hannan Sarkar c Jacobs b Rampaul 4
Mohammad Ashraful c Bradshaw b Best 3
Habibul Bashar c Chanderpaul b D.R. Smith 42
Rajin Saleh c Jacobs b D.R. Smith 17
Faisal Hossain c Bravo b D.R. Smith 17
Mushfiqur Rahman run out 14
Khaled Mahmud c D.S. Smith b Bravo 4
Manjural Islam Rana not out 6
Extras (lb6, w5) 11
Total (for seven wickets) 118
Did not bat: Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique,
Tapash Baisya
Fall of wickets: 1-11, 2-18, 3-65, 4-89, 5-93, 6-102, 7-118
Bowling: Best 3-0-7-1; Rampaul 5-0-21-1; Bradshaw 5-0-22-0; Bravo 5-0-22-1;
Powell 3-0-16-0; D.R. Smith 4-0-24-3.
Overs: 25 West Indies
R. Powell c Khaled Mahmud b Mushfiqur Rahman 17
D.S. Smith not out 39
D.R. Smith lbw b Manjural Islam Rana 23
S. Chanderpaul c Faisal Hossain b Tapash Baisya 24
R. Sarwan not out 7
Extras (lb2, w7) 9
Total (for three wickets) 119 Did not bat: S.
Joseph, D. Bravo, R. Jacobs, I. Bradshaw, R. Rampaul, T. Best.
Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-52, 3-107
Bowling: Tapash Baisya 5-0-28-1 (1w), Mushfiqur Rahman 4.1-1-23-1, Khaled
Mahmud 5-0-32-0, Mohammad Rafique 5-0-13-0, Manjural Islam Rana 5-0-21-1
Overs: 24.1
Result: West Indies win by seven wickets for
3-0 series victory
Toss: Bangladesh
Umpires: E. Nicholls, D. Shepherd
TV Replays: B. Doctrove
Reserve: G. Greaves
Match Referee: R. Mahanama
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