West Indies captain Chris Gayle struck a powerful 98 to lead his team to a 14 run victory over India in the Twenty20 World Cup in front of a wildly celebrating home crowd on Sunday. The win means West Indies can reach the semi-finals with victory over Australia on Tuesday but leaves India facing almost certain elimination after their second loss in the Super Eight stage.
Gayle produced a combination of prudency and power and his 66-ball knock only ended when he was run out in the final over of the innings, two short of what would have been his second century in a Twenty20 international.
The total of 169 for six was a challenging one and India were never up with the run-rate despite a good knock of 32 from Suresh Raina and an aggressive 29 from 18 balls from skipper M.S Dhoni.
Despite a passionate crowd roaring them on, West Indies suffered some late nerves when Kemar Roach bowled four wides and a no ball in the penultimate over.
But Dwayne Bravo kept his cool in the last over to set the horns hooting and the fists pumping in the stands.
SCOREBOARD:
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West Indies
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C. Gayle run out (Karthik/Dhoni) 98
S. Chanderpaul c Dhoni b Nehra 23
D. Sammy c Vijay b Jadeja 19
K. Pollard c Pathan b Zaheer Khan 17
D. Bravo c Sharma b Nehra 1
R. Sarwan c Sharma b Nehra 0
W. Hinds not out 0
D. Ramdin not out 4
Extras: (lb4, w2, nb1) 7
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Total: (6 wkts, 20 overs) 169
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Did not bat: S Benn, K Roach, J Taylor
Fall of wickets: 1-80 (Chanderpaul), 2-119 (Sammy), 3-160 (Pollard), 4-163 (Bravo), 5-164 (Sarwan), 6-165 (Gayle)
Bowling: Harbhajan 4-0-16-0; Zaheer 4-0-36-1 (1nb); Nehra 4-0-35-3 (1w); Pathan 4-0-28-0 (1w); Raina 2-0-23-0; Jadeja 2-0-27-1
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India
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M. Vijay c Pollard b Sammy 7
G. Gambhir c Ramdin b Roach 15
S. Raina c Sammy b Gayle 32
R. Sharma c Ramdin b Pollard 5
Yuvraj Singh c Chanderpaul b Benn 12
MS Dhoni run out (Bravo) 29
Y. Pathan c Hinds b Taylor 17
Harbhajan Singh c Bravo b Roach 14
R. Jadeja not out 5
A. Nehra c Benn b Bravo 0
Zaheer Khan not out 0
Extras: (lb2, w15, nb2) 19
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Total: (9 wkts, 20 overs) 155
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Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Vijay), 2-27 (Gambhir), 3-38 (Sharma), 4-80 (Raina), 5-81 (Yuvraj Singh), 6-114 (Pathan), 7-140 (Dhoni), 8-150 (Harbhajan), 9-152 (Nehra)
Bowling: Sammy 3-0-16-1 (1nb, 1w); Taylor 4-0-24-1 (4w); Roach 4-0-38-2 (1nb, 7w); Bravo 4-0-28-1; Pollard 2-0-23-1 (2w); Gayle 2-0-22-1 (1w); Benn 1-0-2-1
Toss: India
Man-of-the-match: Chris Gayle (WIS)
Umpires: Billy Bowden (NZL) and Simon Taufel (AUS)
TV umpire: Steve Davis (AUS)
Match referee: Jeff Crowe (NZL).
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