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West Indies vs Zimbabwe, 5th ODI at Kingstown, , Mar 14 2010 - Ball by Ball Commentary

RESULT
5th ODI, Kingstown, March 14, 2010, Zimbabwe tour of West Indies
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(27.4/50 ov, T:162) 165/6

West Indies won by 4 wickets (with 134 balls remaining)

Player Of The Match
63 (41)
chris-gayle
Player Of The Series
273 runs • 1 wkt
chris-gayle
New
WI
Full commentary

West Indies win by 4 wickets and win the series 4-1. The players shake hands, everybody in the dressing room are very happy. Here comes Gayle and his teammates out to shake hands with the Zimbabwe players. Good knock from Gayle for his 63 from 41 deliveries, the middle order as always collapsed, and then they needed Pollard, who with some lusty hitting settled it for West Indies.

Utseya: "Not enough runs on the board, we let ourselves down with the batting. We need to work on our batting."

Gayle the Man-of-the-Match and the Man-of-the-Series: "I must thank God first, the West Indian team management was wonderful, thanks to Zimbabwe for a good fighting series. Yes our middle order needs some attention and they need to work hard."

Thank you for all the emails, it has been a pleasure reading through them. On behalf of Raghav, this is Binoy George signing off.

27.4
4
Maruma to Ramdin, FOUR runs

short ball and Ramdin pulls well to the square leg fence for a boundary, that brings up the winning runs for West Indies, they have done well to win.

27.3
1
Maruma to Bernard, 1 run

worked behind square leg and picks up a single.

27.2
1
Maruma to Ramdin, 1 run

pulled away to deep backward square leg.

27.1
2
Maruma to Ramdin, 2 runs

driven down the ground to wide long on and picks up couple of runs, 3 more needed.

Mark Kidger: "Pollard settles the nerves and we are back in mismatch mode. It's a measure of how low expectations have grown in the Caribbean that they are dancing in the aisles for a win over Zimbabwe.

There is plenty of talent there, but the discipline to make the most of it still seems lacking."

Maruma is back.

end of over 272 runs
WI: 157/6CRR: 5.81 RRR: 0.21
David Bernard3 (8b)
Denesh Ramdin14 (31b)
Ray Price 7-0-32-1
Graeme Cremer 3-0-17-1
26.6
Price to Bernard, no run

swept down to short fine leg.

26.5
Price to Bernard, no run

turned away to the onside.

26.4
Price to Bernard, no run

this time watchfully defended to the off side.

26.3
Price to Bernard, no run

spins across the face off the bat as he plays forward.

Price come over the wicket.

26.2
2
Price to Bernard, 2 runs

turned away nicely to deep square leg, the fielder running in cannot prevent the second.

26.1
Price to Bernard, no run

defended to the onside.

end of over 262 runs
WI: 155/6CRR: 5.96 RRR: 0.29
Denesh Ramdin14 (31b)
David Bernard1 (2b)
Graeme Cremer 3-0-17-1
Ray Price 6-0-30-1
25.6
Cremer to Ramdin, no run

defended to the off side.

25.5
Cremer to Ramdin, no run

moves back and defends down the track.

25.4
1
Cremer to Bernard, 1 run

turned away forward of square leg and picks up a single.

25.3
Cremer to Bernard, no run

moves forward and plays behind the wicket on the onside.

25.2
1
Cremer to Ramdin, 1 run

turned away to the onside to deep midwicket.

25.1
Cremer to Ramdin, no run

cuts to point.

Cremer is back. Slip and silly-point in place.

end of over 251 run • 1 wicket
WI: 153/6CRR: 6.12 RRR: 0.36
Denesh Ramdin13 (27b)
Ray Price 6-0-30-1
Timycen Maruma 1-0-11-0

Is there another twist in the tale. Here is Bernard.

24.6
W
Price to Pollard, OUT

another wicket thrown away, Pollard mishits it high in the air to long off and Masakadza does not move an inch, takes the catch.

Kieron Pollard c Masakadza b Price 36 (20b 3x4 3x6 22m) SR: 180
24.5
1
Price to Ramdin, 1 run

driven down the ground to long on.

24.4
Price to Ramdin, no run

moves back and turns to the onside.

24.3
Price to Ramdin, no run

driven to the onside and Price dives and makes a good save.

24.2
Price to Ramdin, no run

almost plays it back to the bowler.

24.1
Price to Ramdin, no run

pushes to the onside and good fielding at midwicket.