India wins the cricket series against West Indies by 3-1
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
India has won the 4-match Pepsi cricket series against West Indies by 3-1 today in Vadodara.
India won the match by a huge difference of 160 runs. India made 341 runs in 50 overs by losing 3 wickets. Sachin Tendulkar completed his 41st century in only 76 balls. Mahendra Singh Dhoni made 40 runs in just 20 balls, hitting 1 four and 3 sixes.
West Indies played under pressure and lost their wickets in regular intervals. The highest-run partnership of the West Indian innings was of 65 runs between Samuels and Ramdin. The team were all out on 181 runs in 41.4 overs. Agarkar and Kumble took 2 wickets each.
Player of the match as well as player of the series, Sachin Tendulkar, performed well. He made his 41st ODI century which is the highest by any player in the One-Day international. He made 191 runs (avg 63.66) and took 3 wickets (avg 37.33) in 4 matches in the series.
India innings | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
Robin Uthappa | c Gayle b Powell | 28 | 17 | 3 | 2 | 164.70 | |
Saurav Ganguly | st Ramdin b Gayle | 68 | 82 | 8 | 1 | 82.92 | |
Rahul Dravid | c Simmons b Samuels | 78 | 109 | 7 | 0 | 71.55 | |
Sachin Tendulkar | not out | 100 | 76 | 10 | 1 | 131.57 | |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni | not out | 40 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 200.00 | |
Extras | (lb 14; w 9; nb 4) | 27 | |||||
Total | (3 Wickets; 50 overs) | 341 | 29 | 7 |
West Indies bowlings | ||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
Daren Powell | 8 | 0 | 68 | 1 | 8.50 | |
Dwayne Smith | 8 | 0 | 49 | 0 | 6.12 | |
Rayad Emrit | 9 | 0 | 65 | 0 | 7.22 | |
Marlon Samuels | 9 | 0 | 51 | 1 | 5.66 | |
Chris Gayle | 8 | 0 | 34 | 1 | 4.25 | |
Ian Bradshaw | 8 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 7.50 |
West Indies innings | |||||||
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Player | Status | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s | Strike rate | |
Shivnarine Chanderpaul | c Harbhajan Singh b Khan | 14 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 60.86 | |
Chris Gayle | b Agarkar | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 54.54 | |
Devon Smith | c Yuvraj Singh b Pathan | 24 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 77.41 | |
Marlon Samuels | c Pathan b Kumble | 55 | 63 | 7 | 1 | 87.30 | |
Brian Lara | run out (Pathan) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 150.00 | |
Lendl Simmons | run out (sub Suresh Raina) | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
Denesh Ramdin | c Kumble b Harbhajan Singh | 40 | 52 | 5 | 0 | 76.92 | |
Dwayne Smith | lbw b Kumble | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Rayad Emrit | c Uthappa b Agarkar | 13 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 39.39 | |
Ian Bradshaw | not out | 14 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 87.50 | |
Daren Powell | c sub Suresh Raina b Yuvraj Singh | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 12.50 | |
Extras | (lb 3; w 4) | 7 | |||||
Total | (All out; 41.4 overs) | 181 | 21 | 1 |
India bowlings | ||||||
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Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets | Econ | |
Ajit Agarkar | 9 | 0 | 40 | 2 | 4.44 | |
Zaheer Khan | 6 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 3.50 | |
Irfan Pathan | 7 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 6.14 | |
Harbhajan Singh | 8 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 3.75 | |
Anil Kumble | 7 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 3.85 | |
Yuvraj Singh | 4.4 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 3.64 |
Sources
edit- "4th Match: India v West Indies at Vadodara, Jan 31, 2007" — Cric Info, January 31, 2007