Within 80 balls in to the chase, it was all but over. A penetrative spell from Darren Sammy, in which he took three wickets from his first three overs - later adding one more to his tally - left the Zimbabwean top order reeling in their chase of 246 at Arnos Vale. The visitors had [...]
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Wednesday, March 10
Start time 09:30 (13:30 GMT)
The Big Picture
West Indies’ downward one-day curve got a much needed lift on Saturday, when the hosts beat Zimbabwe by four wickets to level the series. It was their first victory in an international fixture since August last year, and the relief on their faces was palpable. [...]
The return of key allrounder Dwayne Bravo has boosted West Indies ahead of the third one-dayer against Zimbabwe on Wednesday. Bravo’s brother, Darren, has also been included in the 14-man squad for the final three one-dayers.
The out-of-form Andre Fletcher, who has six ducks in his previous eight innings for West Indies, and allrounder Dwayne Smith [...]
West Indies’ four-wicket win in the second ODI against Zimbabwe was their first victory in an international match since August last year. Chris Gayle, the captain, called the series-levelling victory “a big relief” and hoped “this is the first of many to come.”
Half-centuries from Gayle and Narsingh Deonarine helped West Indies overhaul Zimbabwe’s total [...]
Impressive half-centuries from Chris Gayle and Narsingh Deonarine earned West Indies a four-wicket win over Zimbabwe.
Gayle hit 88 off 111 balls and Deonarine 65 not out off 85 as the hosts reached 208 for six in reponse to Zimbabwe’s 206 all out in the second one-day international in Guyana to level the series at 1-1.
It’s [...]
Chris Gayle, hurting after the last-over defeat in the first ODI, delivered a gritty all-round performance with support from Narsingh Deonarine to help steer West Indies to a series-levelling win - their first victory in an international fixture since August last year. The pair got together when Zimbabwe’s spinners had, yet again, put in an [...]
Zimbabwe followed up their historic Twenty20 win on Sunday by beating West Indies by two runs in a tense first one-day international in Guyana.
The tourists posted a competitive 254-5 after opting to bat first on a slow wicket, with Vusi Sibanda’s patient 95 holding their innings together.
Chris Gayle then hit 57 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul 70 [...]
West Indies’ two-run defeat to Zimbabwe in the one-day series opener, after the tourists won the one-off Twenty20, has left the captain Chris Gayle shaking his head at the dismissals of three key batsmen. West Indies, chasing 255, came up short by two runs after they lost Kieron Pollard and Dinesh Ramdin to loose shots [...]
Zimbabwe followed up their historic Twenty20 win on Sunday by beating West Indies by two runs in a tense first one-day international in Guyana.
The tourists posted a competitive 254-5 after opting to bat first on a slow wicket, with Vusi Sibanda’s patient 95 holding their innings together.
Chris Gayle then hit 57 and Shivnarine Chanderpaul 70 [...]
It’s not often that a bowler with an economy rate of 12 is a team’s hero. Shingirai Masakadza was, though, and that too on his debut, when he secured Zimbabwe their first ODI win in the Caribbean by conceding only one run in the final three deliveries of a game that the visitors somehow [...]
Zimbabwe captain Prosper Utseya has warned against complacency after Zimbabwe’s 26-run victory in the Twenty20 at Port of Spain, but believes his side will be tough to beat if they play to their potential in the one-day series against West Indies, which starts in Georgetown on March 4.
“We are trying not to be over-confident going [...]
Chris Gayle, the West Indies captain, has returned to the squad for the first two ODIs against Zimbabwe in Providence after missing the Twenty20 to be with his unwell mother. The selectors, however, did not pick Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo in the 14-man squad.
Sarwan scored a hundred for Guyana against Windward Islands in the [...]