West Indies crush India by 103 runs in fourth ODI

West Indies bowlers produced a clinical performance after Kieron Pollard and Lendl Simmons laid the foundation with fluent fifties, as they crushed India by 103 runs in the fourth One-day International, here today.
Sent into bat after Suresh Raina won the toss, Pollard top-scored with a typically aggressive 70 off 72 balls while opener Simmons notched up a fluent 67 off 78 deliveries, to lift the hosts to 249 for eight, their highest total of the series, after the Indian bowlers had them in a spot of bother at 89 for four.
Image: West Indies' Anthony Martin, right, shakes hands with teammate Kirk Edwards while celebrating their victory by 103 runs over India at their fourth one-day international cricket match in St. John's, Antigua, Monday June 13, 2011.

India vs West Indies, 4th ODI | Cricket Scorecard | 13th June More at: India vs West Indies Scorecard 4rd ODI 2011 13th June

West Indies innings Total: 249 / 8 in 50.0 overs (Run Rate: 4.98)
Batsman			Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes	SR	FoW
Lendl Simmons	run out (M Tiwary)		67	78	3	3	85.90	5-103 ( 26.4 ov. )
Danza Hyatt	c M Tiwary	b Ishant	1	4	0	0	25.00	1-3 ( 1.5 ov. )
Ramnaresh Sarwan	c M Tiwary	b Praveen	1	12	0	0	8.33	2-12 ( 4.5 ov. )
Darren Bravo	c M Tiwary	b Mishra	15	36	2	0	41.67	3-65 ( 15.6 ov. )
Marlon Samuels	lbw	b Mishra	8	21	0	0	38.10	4-89 ( 23.1 ov. )
Kieron Pollard	c I Sharma	b Ashwin	70	72	6	2	97.22	6-199 ( 44.2 ov. )
Carlton Baugh (wk)	c V Kohli	b Praveen	39	57	3	0	68.42	7-240 ( 48.2 ov. )
Andre Russell	c V Kohli	b Praveen	25	14	3	1	178.57	8-240 ( 48.3 ov. )
Darren Sammy (c)	not out		1	3	0	0	33.33
Kemar Roach	not out		4	6	0	0	66.67
Anthony Martin
Extras: ( 8 wd, 7 lb, 0 b, 3 nb, 0 p)			Total: 249 / 8 in 50.0 overs (Run Rate: 4.98)

Bowler	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NoBall	Wide	Eco
Praveen Kumar	10.0	3	37	3	0	1	3.70
Ishant Sharma	10.0	0	60	1	3	5	6.00
R Ashwin	10.0	1	39	1	0	0	3.90
Amit Mishra	10.0	3	56	2	0	1	5.60
Yusuf Pathan	6.0	0	24	0	0	1	4.00
Manoj Tiwary	4.0	0	26	0	0	0	6.50

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India innings Total: 146 / 10 in 39.0 overs (Run Rate: 3.74)
Batsman			Runs	Balls	Fours	Sixes	SR	FoW
Parthiv Patel (wk)	c and	b Sammy	26	32	3	0	81.25	2-41 ( 9.2 ov. )
Manoj Tiwary	c C Baugh	b Sammy	2	17	0	0	11.76	1-20 ( 5.4 ov. )
Virat Kohli	st C Baugh	b Martin	22	33	1	0	66.67	4-82 ( 20.6 ov. )
S Badrinath	c C Baugh	b Russell	12	27	1	0	44.44	3-62 ( 16.3 ov. )
Rohit Sharma	c D Bravo	b Martin	39	47	0	1	82.97	7-124 ( 30.6 ov. )
Suresh Raina (c)	c K Pollard	b Martin	10	19	0	0	52.63	5-111 ( 26.6 ov. )
Yusuf Pathan	c K Roach	b Simmons	1	2	0	0	50.00	6-114 ( 27.4 ov. )
R Ashwin	c M Samuels	b Russell	15	27	0	0	55.56	9-145 ( 37.5 ov. )
Praveen Kumar	c D Sammy	b Russell	6	13	0	0	46.15	8-138 ( 35.1 ov. )
Amit Mishra	not out		5	14	0	0	35.71
Ishant Sharma	st C Baugh	b Martin	0	3	0	0	0.00	10-146 ( 38.6 ov. )
Extras: ( 2 wd, 2 lb, 4 b, 0 nb, 0 p)			Total: 146 / 10 in 39.0 overs (Run Rate: 3.74)

Bowler	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	NoBall	Wide	Eco
Kemar Roach	8.0	1	22	0	0	0	2.75
Darren Sammy (c)	9.0	0	43	2	0	0	4.78
Andre Russell	7.0	0	16	3	0	1	2.29
Kieron Pollard	4.0	0	20	0	0	1	5.00
Anthony Martin	10.0	0	36	4	0	0	3.60
Lendl Simmons	1.0	0	3	1	0	0	3.00

West Indies vs India 4th ODI Match Report

The 4th ODI was the game for the West Indies to shine after a shaky start but Simmons and Pollard scored half centuries and proved others wrong the deserve in the West Indies team. The Pollard innings was classy and wasn’t your average Pollard innings with huge amounts of boundaries but showed he had control as well.
India also got a bad start with the debutant falling early but India just failed to build on their starts.

Match Result
West Indies 249 for 8 (Pollard 70, Simmons 67 Praveen 3-37) defeated India 146 (Martin 4-36, Russell 3-16) by 103 runs
Raina had won the toss again and elected to bowl and also announced Ashwin, Ishant and Tiwary would be playing while Martin and Darren Bravo were in for the West Indies. Hyatt didn’t last too long and would be disappointed in his start to international cricket falling to Ishant Sharma. A few overs later Kumar found the huge wicket of Sarwan and at that time India were in a great position. Things from their got quite slow with the odd boundary by Simmons who looked like the only one who looked like scoring runs as both Darren Bravo and Marlon Samuels scored a few runs off a lot of balls. Tiwary’s debut got better as he got Simmons out with a direct hit who was batting so well and the game had suddenly flipped right into India’s hands considering Pollards form. Pollard though was proving critics wrong as he was playing a lot more sensibly in this innings with the odd 2 boundaries every few overs, he did his job before he too was dismissed for 70 but got his team back in the game. Baugh was also batting well as he scored 39 runs whilst Russell tried more heroics with his 25 run cameo as the West Indies posted 249.

Tiwary was very nervous looked in his strokes and that reflected on his performance as he only made 2 off 17 as he made a prode at a ball and caught the edge and went straight to Baugh. Parthiv Patel’s start went to waste as Sammy caught and bowled him which was a great wicket. Russell’s short delivery to Badrinanth was perfect and kept climbing and Badrinanth’s struggle ended. Martin was then very smart to pick up the big wicket of Virat Kolhi who has been in good form and all of a sudden West Indies had a huge chance to pick up the win as India were 4/82. Suresh Raina then once again went for the slog sweep but wasn’t successful as Martin grabbed another wicket. Simmons then suprisingly came on to have a bowl and he struck with Yusuf Pathan heading straight back to the pavilion. The only thing that could save India was Rohit Sharma who had done well all series but Martin was ecstatic as he removed him with a terrible shot. The game was easily won by the West Indies to make the series 3-1 with Martin picking up 4 wickets.

Lukman Haruna eyes Wolves switch

Lukman Haruna admits he would love to play in the Premier League amid speculation linking him with Wolves.

Mick McCarthy's side are thought to be interested in the Monaco midfielder and are believed to have valued the player at around one million euros.
However reports claim Dynamo Kiev have agreed a 1.5million euro (£1.32m) fee for the Nigerian international.
While Haruna admits he would love to play in the Premier League, he believes Kiev are also a big name in football so he is waiting to see how the situation develops.
He told skysports.com: "I would love to join the Premier League and play on the biggest stage in the world.
"However if a club does not meet my club's valuation, I can't do anything.
"I have heard about Dynamo Kiev, they are a European name, so we will see."

Anderson backs UDRS against India

The English players are in favour of using the much-debated Umpire Decision Review System in the upcoming Test series between the two sides.

Pacer James Anderson has expressed his displeasure over Indian Cricket Board's (BCCI) refusal to allow the usage of UDRS in the upcoming series, saying the technology improves decision-making.

"I don't understand why. If all the other Test-playing nations are using it, India don't have to use it if they say they don't want to. We want to play with it as it clearly improves decision-making," Anderson was quoted as saying by 'The Daily Mirror'.

"I'm all in favour of it - but it's their problem if they're not going to support it," the pacer added.

Top Indian players such as Sachin Tendulkar and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni have been vocal critics of the UDRS but English players like spin spearhead Graeme Swann have backed the use of technology.

Last week, according to a report in 'The Daily Telegraph', the BCCI sent official notification to the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that it does not want the system to be used in the series in July.

Consent of both the boards is required for the system to be used in a series.

Anderson, who has been recalled for the third and final Test against Sri Lanka starting on Tuesday after recovering from a side strain, also added that he is convinced that he and his team-mates will go down in history as legends if they beat India in the coming series.

"India are No 1 in the world and if we beat them in the series, we'll be the best team in the world," he said.
Anderson was injured during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Cardiff and was replaced by the uncapped Jade Dernbach for the second at Lord's.

The Lancashire paceman reiterated that England have been striving towards becoming the number one Test side in the world.

"We've been working towards this for the past few years.

We want to become No1 in the world and want people to say this is the best ever England side," he said.

"I think we can do that. This is the best team spirit I've experienced. We've got a really strong squad, not just a really strong first eleven," he added.