West Indies pulled off a last ball thriller at Trinidad, thanks to a breathtaking innings by Shivnarine Chanderpaul. West Indies beat Sri Lanka by 1 wicket. The match went down to the wires, with West indies needing 13 from the last over. It then reduced to 10 from 2 balls. With the experienced Vaas bowling the last 2 balls, no mistakes were expected. But Chanderpaul had other ideas. He smashed the penultimate ball straight down the ground for four leaving 6 runs to be get from 1 ball. Would you believe it Vaas bowled a full toss on leg stump and Chanderpaul cleared the ball out of the ground to bring about an emphatic win.
Earlier Lankans were struggling at 49 for 5 unable to handle the brilliant bowling by Bravo and other West Indian bowlers. Sri Lankans went on to score a respectable total of 235, thanks to a good innings from Kapugedera(95) who put on a 159 run stand with Chamara Silva(67). Bravo picked up 4 wickets. Now it was the turn of West Indies turn to bat. Sri Lankan bowling looked flat as Vaas was the only recognised bowler in their line up. The openers went on to pile up the runs and reached 50. Then Smith fell to the bowling of Kulasekara. Gayle and Sarwan then added 50 runs. Gayle reached his fifty. Gayle ,Sarwan and Samuels were out in the space of 6 balls and the West Indies were left stranded at 110 for 4. Then Chanderpaul and Bravo steadied the ship. Bravo played a cameo before he fell for 36 to a run out. From 169 for 5 the west indians went down to 219 for 9. Their only hope was Chanderpaul and did he deliver in style. His last over heroics sealed the match for West Indians. However the man of the match was Dwayne Bravo for his all round performance. The next match will be played on the 12th of March at Trinidad.
The team line up for the next match will be as follows...
West Indies (probable) Chris Gayle, Devon Smith, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Dwayne Bravo, Patrick Browne (wk), Darren Sammy, Jerome Taylor, Daren Powell, Fidel Edwards
Sri Lanka (probable) Upul Tharanga, Mahela Udawatte, Kumar Sangakkara (wk), Mahela Jayawardene (capt), Tillakaratne Dilshan, Chamara Silva, Chamara Kapugedera, Nuwan Kulasekara, Chaminda Vaas, Ajantha Mendis, Kaushalya Weeraratne
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