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Upset #2 in as many days. West Indies are out of the tournament, despite some heavy batting performance. This time it was upset-favorite Bangladesh. After a shock win in the 50 over edition early this year, Bangladesh has sent the Windies back home, to where they belong. West Indies, who had started very well in their practice game, have had two shockers with the ball. Agreed, their batsmen were superb. But, if you can’t defend 200+ in a 20 over match then there seems to be some problem. And that problem was well exploited by Bangladesh.

Set a target of 165, Mohammad Ashraful and Aftab Ahmed played superb knocks of 61 and 62 respectively. Ashraful was at his destructive best, smashing 61 in only 27 balls. His 50 came off only 20 balls, including 7 fours and 3 sizes, and that really set the stage for the 5 wicket win. Aftab Ahmed remained unbeaten and had faced 49 balls.

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West Indies finished their tour to England on a high by winning the 3 match one-day series. Leading by example, Chris Gayle scored a sedate 82 that took 126 balls. However, it was this very innings that laid the foundation for the West Indies’ 293. At 108-3, with Devon Smith, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Marlon Samuels all out, Gayle had a big 85 run partnership with Ricardo Morton. Both of them played contrasting innings. Whereas Gayle was trying to stay till the end, Morton was busy blasting the bowling to all parts. It was like watching two sides of the coin at the same time. But I think the defining innings was played by Dwayne Bravo. He came in with the score at 193-4 in 42 overs. It was like he came, he saw, he conquered. Bravo smashed 42 from only 24 balls to help the Windies blast 96 runs in the last 8 overs.

What was surprising was the fact that Monty Panesar did not bowl his 10 overs. He got only 6 overs for 28 runs which was paltry as compared to how much the seamers were thrashed for. Chris Broad, in particular, was in for some treatment. His 9 overs cost 71 runs and he was wicketless. Anderson and Plunkett were the only bowlers to get wickets. Both completed their 10 overs and went in excess of 5 runs an over. Anderson got 2 and Plunkett managed to snag 3 wickets.

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Shivnarine Chanderpaul led the way for West Indies to a 61 run win over England in the second ODI in the three match series. After being asked to bat first, West Indies started well with a 50 run partnership for the opening stand. However as always happens with the West Indians, 2 quick wickets fell and they were reeling at 67-2. And then came the partnership that saved the day. Chanderpaul and Samuels put on exactly 175 runs in 33.4 overs.

In fact, the last 10 overs saw a massive 102 runs added to the West Indies total. Chanderpaul remained unbeaten on 116 which came off only 122 balls. Samuels got 77.

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