Ind vs WI : India won by 80 runs against West Indies

IBNS

14 years ago

India set-up a quarterfinal clash with?defending champions Australia after they defeated West Indies by80-runs in their last Group B match of the World Cup at the?M.Chidambaram Stadium here on Sunday.

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Yuvraj Singh played a brilliant knock of 113 runs and added 122 runs for the third wicket stand with Virat Kohli (59), as India were all-out for 268 in 49.1 overs.

Ravi Rampaul, who removed Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir in a fiery opening spell, returned to run through the lower order and finished with one-day best figures of 5-51.

West Indies opener Devon Smith made 81 but his dismissal, bowled by Zaheer Khan (3-26) in the 31st over, prompted a collapse from 154-2 to 188 all out.

India’s victory sees them finish second behind South Africa in Group B and therefore take on Australia, the third-placed side in Group A, in the last eight stage of the World Cup.

West Indies, meanwhile, end up in fourth spot and advance to a?quarter-final meeting with Group A winners Pakistan in Dhaka on?Wednesday.

The other two quarter-final matches are also now confirmed – South Africa face up to New Zealand in Dhaka on Friday and Sri Lanka are back on home soil in Colombo for Saturday’s showdown with England.

After winning the toss, India made a steady start despite Tendulkar (2) and Gautam Gambhir (22) falling early to Rampaul, making his first start of the tournament in place of the injured Kemar Roach.

Yuvraj and Kohli kept the West Indies bowlers at bay with their positive batting and reached their half-centuries, and soon brought up their century stand.

India advanced to 160-2 in 30 overs and appeared to be switching gear, but Rampaul cleaned up Kohli (59 off 76) to allow West Indies to regain a foothold.

Yuvraj, along with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, attempted to maintain the momentum by adding 45 in 9.2 overs, before leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo had the India captain stumped for 22.

India were bowled out in 49.1 overs, with the last seven wickets falling for just 51 runs.

In reply the West Indies made an assured start with opener Devon Smith dropping anchor after the dismissal of Kirk Edwards (17) and Darren Bravo (22) by the 19th over.

Smith reached 50 off 64 balls and along with Ramnaresh Sarwan added 63 from 13.3 overs to keep them in the hunt, needing 115 needed off 120 for victory.

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A bowling change did the trick for India as Zaheer and Harbhajan Singh dismissed Smith and Pollard respectively to leave West

Indies on 157-4.

The collapse continued when Devon Thomas was stumped by Dhoni off Yuvraj and captain Sammy was run out a couple of overs later, leaving Sarwan with only the tail for support.