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Sports FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 2014 Pollard, Ramdin rescue troubled West Indies

ST GEORGE’S: and saved the West Indies from a humiliating defeat and engineered a three- victory over in the first one-day international at the National Stadium in Grenada on Wednesday. Reeling at 34 for five in reply to the tourists’ total of 217 for nine, Pollard’s com- manding 89 and Ramdin’s polished 74 : ’s players celebrate their win turned the match on its head, their 145-run with the series trophy following the third and final sixth-wicket transforming the match of a three one-day internationals (ODI) between improbability of victory into a leisurely can- ter by the time the winning runs were hit and South Africa at the in by in the 40th over. Bulawayo, yesterday. — AFP They played positively and exposed the De Kock leads SA to series limitations of the Bangladeshi attack as visiting sweep against Zimbabwe was at his wit’s end to stem the flow of runs following the early clatter of . BULAWAYO: ’s quickfire 84 lead South Africa to a Medium-pacer Al-Amin Hossain crushing 3-0 series victory over Zimbabwe as they won the third one- emerged with the bowling honours, taking day international by seven wickets yesterday. three of the first five wickets to fall and fin- De Kock wasted little time in his 75-ball innings and was aided by ishing with four for 51. 40 off 33 balls by stand-in captain as the Proteas chased He added the scalp of Pollard, who fell down a target of 166 in just 27.2 overs. The heavy defeat came after to an outstanding outfield catch by both sides made three changes, with the most notable arguably as the big-hitting right-han- being Zimbabwe’s decision to drop their premier batsman Brendan der attempted to heave another six to take Taylor. Taylor had scored just 20 runs in the first two games, but his him closer to a hundred and his team near- omission still came as a surprise to the South Africans. “Obviously you er to victory. do a lot of planning as a captain to someone like that. He’s a quality “It was good to be able to put my head player so I was very happy not to see him,” Du Plessis said. down together with Denesh to bring the Although Elton Chigumbura filled the number four berth match home,” said Pollard. “No-one needs admirably with a captain’s knock of 90, he found next to no support to remind me about that. I know what I as Zimbabwe were bowled out inside 40 overs. After had have to do and I’m glad I was able to deliv- trapped lbw in the first over, Marchant de er today.” ’s workmanlike Lange struck with his very first when he had Richmond hundred held the Bangladesh innings Mutumbami caught at second slip. Chigumbura revived the innings together as the visitors reached 217 for alongside Butt, who made 30 from 24 balls, but after nine first. Put in on a pitch that Raza was dismissed by Ryan McLaren, the Zimbabweans went on to made free scoring difficult, the opening lose six for 16 in six overs. With Zimbabwe 119 for nine, Chigumbura batsman’s 109 was essential to giving the went to his half- in 102 deliveries, and then cashed in during innings some respectability with more sen- the power play, hitting five fours and two sixes as he added 40 in 20 ior players in the failing to balls. That took him past his previous best of 79 — scored against contribute significantly. GRENADA: West Indies batsmen Denesh Ramdin (R) throws his bat in the air Kenya in Mombasa in 2009 — but his fun came to an end when he after being bowled out during a between the West was bowled by De Lange, who finished with 3 for 31. —AFP Fellow opener and lower- order player were the next Indies and Bangladesh at Grenada National Cricket Stadium in St George’s, best contributors with 26 runs apiece. “We Grenada, on Wednesday. West Indies defeated Bangladesh by three wickets in SCORE BOARD were probably 20-25 runs short of being the first one-day international at the National Stadium in Grenada on really competitive,” said Musfiqur after the Wednesday. — AFP BULAWAYO: Full scoreboard from the third one-day internation- match. urgency, Bangladesh still struggled to get. The win was also a much-needed al between Zimbabwe and South Africa yesterday: “Our bowlers did a good job up front improve the run-rate significantly, leaving boost for a West Indies team whose coach Zimbabwe but after taking those early wickets we their bowlers with a tough task to prevent was axed in the hours before H. Masakadza lbw b Abbott 4 couldn’t sustain the effort.” the West Indies overhauling what the match. The second of the three-game R. Mutumbami c Rossouw b de Lange 0 was the most successful West Indies appeared, at that time, to be a modest tar- series is at the same venue today. — AFP S Raza c Phangiso b McLaren 30 bowler, finishing with four for 32, including E. Chigumbura b de Lange 90 the wickets of and S. Williams b Phangiso 17 Anamul in the final over of the innings. SCORE BOARD M. Waller c de Kock b de Lange 2 L. Jongwe lbw b Abbott 2 “There’s a lot of room for improvement because the top order of the batting, ST GEORGE’S: Scoreboard in the first one-day international between West P. Utseya b Parnell 2 Indies and Bangladesh at the National Stadium in Grenada on Wednesday: J. Nyumbu c du Plessis b Parnell 0 including myself, let us down again,” said T. Kamungozi lbw b Shezi 1 Bravo in reflecting on the victory. “The Bangladesh West Indies T. Panyangara 0 bowlers did their part definitely. We just Tamim Iqbal c Pollard b Holder 26 C. Gayle c A Hossain b M Mortaza 3 Extras (6lb, 11w) 17 need the batting to come up trumps.” Anamul Haque lbw b Dwayne Bravo 109 K. Edwards b Mahmudullah 10 Total (all out, 39.5 overs) 165 Anamul’s knock occupied 138 deliveries run out 9 D Bravo c M Rahim b Al-Amin Hossain 7 Fall of wickets: 1-4 (Masakadza), 2-4 (Mutumbami), 3-55 (Sikandar during which he struck 11 fours and the S Rahman c Ramdin b Dwayne Bravo 8 L. Simmons c MRahim b A Hossain 0 Raza), 4-89 (Williams), 5-104 (Waller), 6-109 (Jongwe), 7-114 lone six of the innings, a top-edged hook Mushfiqur Rahim c Narine b Gayle 12 D. Ramdin b Sohag Gazi 74 (Utseya), 8-114 (Nyumbu), 9-119 (Kamungozi), 10-165 Mahmudullah b Dwayne Bravo 11 D Bravo c Gazi b A Hossain 5 off fast-medium bowler . Nasir Hossain c Ramdin b Rampaul 26 K. Pollard c Mahmudullah b Al-Amin (Chigumbura). The 21-year-old’s two ODI hundreds Bowling: Abbott 6-1-21-2, De Lange 7.5-0-31-3, McLaren 6-0-53-1, Sohag Gazi run out 2 Hossain 89 Parnell 8-0-33-2, Shezi 6-2-8-1, Phangiso 6-1-13-1. have both come against the West Indies, M Mortaza c Pollard b Dwyane Bravo 3 J. Holder not out 22 South Africa his top score remaining the 120 compiled not out 0 S. Narine not out 3 Q. de Kock c Williams b Panyangara 84 in the series in Bangladesh at the end of Extras (lb2, w8, nb1) 11 Extras (lb1, w5) 6 R. Rossouw run out 0 2012. He lost Tamim after an opening stand Total (50 overs, 9 wickets) 217 Total (39.4 overs, 7 wickets) 219 F. du Plessis b Williams 40 of 41, the left-hander miscuing an attempt- Did not bat: Al-Amin Hossain Did not bat: K. Roach, R. Rampaul JP Duminy not out 28 ed pull off Holder for Pollard to take the Fall of wickets: 1-41 (Tamim Iqbal), 2-69 Fall of wickets: 1-9 (Gayle), 2-20 (D.M. D. Miller not out 13 catch at short mid-wicket. (Imrul Kayes), 3-80 (Shamsur Bravo), 3-20 (Edwards), 4-22 Extras (5w, 1nb) 6 Wickets continued to fall at regular Rahman), 4-117 (Mushfiqur Rahim), 5-141 (Simmons), 5-34 (D.J. Bravo), 6-179 Total (for 3 wkts, 27.2 overs) 171 intervals until Nasir joined Anamul at 141 (Mahmudullah), 6-194 (Nasir Hossain), 7- (Ramdin), 7-209 (Pollard). 201 (Sohag Gazi), 8-217 (Mashrafe Bowling: Sohag Gazi 9-1-46-1, Mashrafe Fall of wickets: 1-1 (Rossouw), 2-74 (du Plessis), 3-144 (de Kock). for five in the 34th over, the pair putting on Mortaza), 9-217 (Anamul Haque) Mortaza 8-2-22-1, Mahmudullah Did not bat: R. McLaren, W. Parnell, K. Abbott, A. Phangiso, M. de 53 for the sixth wicket and giving the Lange, M. Shezi. Bowling: Roach 10-0-48-0 (1w), Rampaul 4-0-20-1, Al-Amin Hossain 8.4-0-51-4, Bowling: Panyangara 6-0-39-1, Jongwe 5-0-30-0, Kamungozi 3-0- innings a bit of momentum before Nasir 10-1-48-1 (3w), Holder 9-0-39-1 Taskin Ahmed 7-0-46-0 (1w), Nasir Hossain 32-0, Nyumbu 5.2-0-33-0, Williams 2-1-1-1, Utseya 6-0-36-0. departed, caught at the wicket off a mis- (1w), Dwayne Bravo 7-0-32-4 (3w, 1 nb), 2-0-20-0, Shamsur Rahman 1-0-13-0. Result: South Africa won by 7 wickets. — AFP cued swing at Rampaul as he attempted to Narine 10-1-29-0, Gayle 4-0-19-1. Result: West Indies won by 3 wickets. accelerate the scoring. Despite the greater