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Posted on 07/11/2006 6:12:15 AM PDT by BaBaStooey
WINDIES XI MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF US PROMOTIONAL SERIES by CMC 10 July 2006 20:38
BROOKLYN, New York - A star-studded West Indies XI made a clean sweep of their two-match series against the United States with contrasting wins over the weekend at the Floyd Bennett Cricket Field.
While they snatched a narrow five-run win in the first game on Saturday, they powered their way to an emphatic six-wicket victory on Sunday, with captain Brian Lara and Chris Gayle hammering half centuries.
Batting first in the opening 40-overs game, West Indies made 214 for six which was due largely to a polished 70 from Ramnaresh Sarwan, who hit five fours in his 83-ball knock.
Lara made 36, with two fours and a six, before former Windward Islands left-arm pacer Mike Alexis prised out the genius left-hander as he attempted to hoist him out of the ground
Chris Gayle hammered 23 including a six and a four in adding 43 for the first wicket with Darren Ganga who made 17.
Shrivnarine Chanderpaul and Dwayne Smith both chipped in with 21.
Imran Awan, the Pakistini-born opening bowler, snatched three Windies scalps - Sarwan, Chanderpaul and Smith -- for 39 runs while Alexis ended with two for 31.
In reply, Jamaican-born Rashard Marshall, relative of Jamaica and West Indies batsman, Xavier Marshall cracked a pugnacious, undefeated 90 to bring the United States close to reaching their target.
He added a valuable 115 for the sixth wicket with captain Steve Massiah whose 58 came from 104 balls.
They came together with the US in a spot of bother on 94 for five, but Marshall blasted seven fours and two sixes in just 56 balls, including 16 runs in a Wavell Hinds' over, to engineer the US recovery.
With the US requiring 17 runs for victory from the last over, Lara sent down his leg-spin conceding 11 runs while accounting Massiah's wicket.
In the second game on Sunday, Lara hammered 70 off just 43 balls, including nine fours and three mammoth sixes as the West Indies, chasing a target of 234 for eight, reached 237 for four off 30 overs.
Lara was joined by Gayle who blazed 62 off 33 balls, hoisting six massive sixes and four fours, including three successive sixes off former Trinidad and Tobago national player Glen Lorick's first over.
Lorick's first over, the last of the match, conceded 30 runs.
And yet another FReeper stops by a thread to inform us that he feels someone (or something) is trying, A Clockwork Orange-like, to get him to watch a professional sport. How insecure are you guys?
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Since half the west indies moved to East Flatbush.
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