Thursday, September 27, 2018

The Indians (Azh)are not (Carib)bea(te)n

India made just one change to their playing eleven – Javagal Srinath made way for Karnataka teammate Anil Kumble. The West Indies made five changes to the eleven that last played the Indians – Desmond Haynes, Vivian Richards, Malcolm Marshall, Winston Benjamin and Courtney Walsh made way for Clayton Lambert, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Ian Bishop and Patrick Patterson.

Richie Richardson, the West Indian skipper, inserted the Indians on winning the toss. Shastri, who faced 33 balls, scored (Ra)VI. He was stumped by Jeff Dujon. Hooper broke the 33-run stand. Sanjay Manjrekar, whose 81-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 56. He was caught by Hooper. Bishop broke the 128-run stand.

Navjot Singh, whose 113-ball innings included half-a-boundaries and the only six of the innings, missed hiS(id)hundred by just a couple of runs. He was stumped by Dujon. Hooper broke the 20-run stand. Mohammad Azharuddin, India’s skipper, faced 14 balls, scoring a dozen. He was caught by Phil Simmons, who broke the three-run stand.

The fifth-wicket pair put on 32. Tendulkar, whose 27-ball (Sach)innings included three boundaries, scored 22. He was run out. Vinod Kambli, his chum at school [Shardashram Vidyamandir (English) High School, Dadar (West), Mumbai], faced 23 balls, scoring 29. He was unbeaten.

Kapil Dev faced seven balls, scored as many. He was caught by Simmons. Bishop broke the 16-run stand. Manoj Prabhakar, the player of the match, faced a couple of balls, scoring as many. He was unbeaten. The West Indians conceded 14 extras. India scored 240 for the loss of six wickets off 50 overs.

Keith Arthurton, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded 15. Patterson and Curtly Ambrose bowled 10 wicketless overs each. While the former conceded 47, the latter, whose spell included a couple of maidens, conceded 32.

Simmons, who bowled eight overs, conceded 49. He picked up a wicket. Bishop and Hooper bowled 10 overs apiece, picking up a couple of scalps each. While the former conceded 49, the latter conceded 46.

Simmons, who faced 44 balls, scored 20. He was trapped leg before wicket by Shastri, who broke the 54-run stand. Richardson, whose 45-ball innings included a maiden, scored 28. He was caught by Azharuddin. Shastri broke the 62-run stand. Lambert, whose 89-ball innings included four boundaries and the only six of the innings, scored 66. He was caught by Kumble, who broke the seven-run stand.

Gus Logie, who faced nine balls, scored four. His runs came by way of a boundary. He was trapped leg before wicket by Kumble, who broke the 10-run stand. Hooper, who scored 24 balls, scored 17. He was trapped leg before wicket by Kumble, who broke the 38-run stand. Arthurton, who faced half-a-dozen balls, scored a couple. He was stumped by Kiran More. Kumble broke the four-run stand.

Dujon, who faced a ball, failed to get off the mark. He was trapped leg before wicket by Prabhakar, who broke the 11-run stand. The eighth-wicket pair did not get off the mark. Ambrose, who faced a ball, didn’t open his account. He was trapped leg before wicket by Prabhakar.

Lara, whose 44-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 45. Prabhakar broke the eight-run stand. Bishop, whose 29-ball innings included a boundary, scored 23. He was caught by Shastri. Prabhakar broke the 27-run stand. Patterson, who faced eight balls, scored three. He was unbeaten.

India conceded 13 extras. The West Indians, who were dismissed for 221 off 48.5 overs, lost by 19 runs. Dev bowled nine wicketless overs, conceding 50. Venkatapathy Raju, who bowled 10 wicketless overs, conceded 44.

Shastri bowled 10 overs, conceding 38. He picked up two wickets. Prabhakar, who bowled 9.5 overs, conceded 30. He picked up four scalps, as did Kumble, who bowled 10 overs, conceding 50.

Shastri, who bowled 10 overs, conceded 38. He picked up a couple of wickets. Prabhakar, who bowled 9.5 overs, conceded 30. He picked up four scalps, as did Kumble, who bowled 10 overs, conceding 50.

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