West Indies win to keep the series alive

Rampaul bowls Indies to win

Ahmedabad, December 5: Despite the struggle from Rohit Sharma, West Indies managed to beat India to end their 11-match winning streak in home ODIs. 

After India's impressive bowling, West Indies's Darren Sammy and Andre Russell scored thrilling 79 runs in last 5.4 overs - run-rate of 13.94 - boasting West Indies to 260.

Ravi Rampaul bowled some magnificient bowling securing 4 wickets,  his sixth haul of four wickets or more, that guided the tourists to the win. Sehwag and Ghambir were sent off on the first two balls of Rampaul ( 2nd over of the inning).

No batsmen could provide a valuble partnership as they went down to 6 for just 105 runs. Rohit's hard work - scoring 95 runs of 100 balls - created big hopes for India as he added 91 runs with Ashwin. This was the highest seventh-wicket stand for India against West Indies.

India required 65 of 61 balls but again faced the turn around as Ashwin was trapped lbw by Narine and Sharma was run-out by Sammy's sharp throw.

The 4th ODI will be played on 8th December.

Score Board:

West Indies innings (50 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	LMP Simmons	c †Patel b Vinay Kumar	1	12	8	0	0	12.50
	DP Hyatt	c †Patel b Mithun	20	56	39	1	1	51.28
	MN Samuels	b Ashwin	58	112	93	5	1	62.36
	DM Bravo	retired hurt	26	48	41	2	0	63.41
	D Ramdin†	c †Patel b Yadav	38	59	52	3	0	73.07
	KA Pollard	c Jadeja b Vinay Kumar	29	44	32	2	1	90.62
	AD Russell	not out	40	33	18	4	2	222.22
	DJG Sammy*	not out	41	28	17	5	2	241.17
	Extras	(lb 2, w 5)	7
	Total	(5 wickets; 50 overs; 199 mins)	260	(5.20 runs per over)

Did not bat KAJ Roach, R Rampaul, SP Narine

Fall of wickets1-2 (Simmons, 2.4 ov), 2-42 (Hyatt, 13.1 ov), 2-97* (Bravo, retired not out), 3-122 (Samuels, 33.4 ov),4-177 (Ramdin, 43.5 ov), 5-181 (Pollard, 44.2 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	R Vinay Kumar	8	1	39	2	4.87	(1w)
	U Yadav	9	1	75	1	8.33
	A Mithun	7	0	47	1	6.71	(1w)
	RA Jadeja	10	1	37	0	3.70	(1w)
	R Ashwin	10	0	33	1	3.30	(2w)
	SK Raina	6	0	27	0	4.50

	India innings (target: 261 runs from 50 overs)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	PA Patel†	b Samuels	39	60	35	7	0	111.42
	V Sehwag*	c †Ramdin b Rampaul	0	3	1	0	0	0.00
	G Gambhir	lbw b Rampaul	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	V Kohli	lbw b Narine	20	21	30	3	0	66.66
	RG Sharma	run out (Sammy)	95	151	100	10	1	95.00
	SK Raina	c †Ramdin b Rampaul	2	5	3	0	0	66.66
	RA Jadeja	run out (Russell/†Ramdin)	11	25	16	2	0	68.75
	R Ashwin	lbw b Narine	31	74	64	1	0	48.43
	R Vinay Kumar	b Roach	3	7	8	0	0	37.50
	A Mithun	lbw b Rampaul	23	25	16	2	2	143.75
	U Yadav	not out	11	15	10	2	0	110.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 2, w 3, nb 3)	9
	Total	(all out; 46.5 overs; 201 mins)	244	(5.20 runs per over)

Fall of wickets1-8 (Sehwag, 1.1 ov), 2-8 (Gambhir, 1.2 ov), 3-43 (Kohli, 8.2 ov), 4-79 (Patel, 14.6 ov),5-84 (Raina, 15.6 ov), 6-105 (Jadeja, 20.5 ov), 7-196 (Ashwin, 39.6 ov), 8-200 (Vinay Kumar, 41.3 ov),9-216 (Sharma, 43.4 ov), 10-244 (Mithun, 46.5 ov)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	KAJ Roach	10	0	54	1	5.40	(2nb, 1w)
	R Rampaul	8.5	1	57	4	6.45	(1nb, 1w)
	SP Narine	10	0	34	2	3.40
	MN Samuels	10	0	50	1	5.00
	AD Russell	4	0	25	0	6.25	(1w)
	DJG Sammy	1	0	7	0	7.00
	LMP Simmons	2	0	10	0	5.00
	KA Pollard	1	0	4	0	4.00