Friday, July 06, 2007

Live Cricket Scores|Windies end with formidable score

Live Cricket Scores|Ian bellOne-day international, Trent Bridge: West Indies 289-5 v England
England's bowling fell apart in the final 10 overs as West Indies amassed 116 runs to finish with 289-5 in the one-day series decider in Nottingham.
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Runako Morton finished with 82, he and Dwayne Bravo adding 92 off 54 balls - and England even bowled two beamers.

The hosts endured a woeful day in the field, with Gayle (82) dropped on four and 20, Morton missed on four and some poor ground-fielding throughout.

Liam Plunkett (3-59) and James Anderson (2-51) were the only wicket-takers.

Gayle won the toss against an England side showing two changes from the team that lost the second match of the series at Edgbaston.

The return of Plunkett and Monty Panesar - at the expense of Ryan Sidebottom and Michael Yardy - gave the hosts the same side who had succeeded in the series opener at Lord's.

Anderson struck a blow for England in the third over to oust Devon Smith, who edged a drive to Ian Bell at backward point.
Alastair Cook, in at short extra cover, could not cling on to a firmly struck drive from Gayle in the very next over, but it was Bell's drop of Gayle on 20 which was the major error.

Anderson, in the middle of a spell of 1-17 from six overs, cramped the Jamaican left-hander for room and the ball looped towards the Warwickshire man at point.

But Bell completely misread its flight and barely got his hands to the chance.

A flurry of runs followed, including a straight six from Shivnarine Chanderpaul off Panesar.

But Chanderpaul's summer of plenty came to an end when he fell for 33, his lowest score in the seven matches of varying lengths he had played against England.

Trying to pull the first ball of Plunkett's third over, he got a big top-edge and Kevin Pietersen took a good catch after having to run back almost to the boundary from his position at mid-wicket.

Plunkett then had Marlon Samuels edging to Matt Prior to make it 108-3 in the 23rd over during the final over of the third powerplay.

That allowed Paul Collingwood to bowl himself and Dimitri Mascarenhas in tandem in a quiet period of accumulation for Gayle and Morton.
Mascarenhas should have celebrated his first wicket in one-day internationals early in his spell, but Morton was missed by Prior on four from a ball that barely deflected off his outside edge.

To be fair on the Sussex stumper, he was standing up to the wicket to deny the batsmen the opportunity to come down the track to Mascarenhas.

Finally, with Gayle and Morton having nurdled their way to 173-3 with 10 overs to go, it was time for more positive intent.

Gayle did power Plunkett through the covers for his first boundary since the 17th over, but got into a terrible tangle next ball and gave the Durham man his third wicket with an easy caught-and-bowled.

That ended an 85-run stand, but the next man in - Bravo wasted no time getting himself going and made 42 off just 24 balls before departing to the penultimate delivery.

Morton hit two fours and a six off a Stuart Broad over, and the same bowler then conceded 19 off his ninth and final set of six to end with 0-71.

Even the eventual wicket of Bravo, bowled by Anderson, was of little consolation as Dwayne Smith crashed his only delivery wide of the cover boundary-runner for four to end the innings in suitable style.

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