ZIM V AUS Triangular Series Game 4

Zimbabwe 211 for 7 (Chigumbura 52*, Lyon 4-44) beat Australia 209 for 9 (Clarke 68*) by three wickets

In the 30th ODI meeting between these sides, Zimbabwe did what they had not for 31 years and beat Australia. The captain Elton Chigumbura engineered the chase that changed 11,406 days of history, after his spinners had applied a stranglehold that kept Australia to their lowest total against Zimbabwe, and achieved only their second win against these opponents.

Chigumbura's opposite number, Michael Clarke, battled a hamstring niggle that ruled him out of the rest of the tri-series, and held his side together on a spin-friendly surface on which none of the other Australian batsmen settled. 

But Zimbabwe's challenge was always going to be chasing a total over 200 - they were dismissed for less in their last four ODIs - and when Nathan Lyon picked up career-best figures and they were reduced to 156 for 7, another collapse seemed likely. A 55-run stand between Chigumbura and Prosper Utseya for the eighth wicket ensured Zimbabwe did not fold and sent Harare Sports Club into frenzied celebration.

The dancing in the stands had begun in the morning when Zimbabwe reduced Australia to 39 for 3. John Nyumbu bowled Aaron Finch, Prosper Utseya had Phillip Hughes caught at slip, and Sean Williams bowled George Bailey to give Zimbabwe early control.

Clarke was still there but needed a partner to rebuild and could not find one in Glenn Maxwell, despite him being the recipient of the first of five let-offs from Zimbabwe. Maxwell was on 13 when he edged Malcolm Waller as he tried to drive but Brendan Taylor could not hold on. Fortunately for Zimbabwe, Waller bowled him with his next delivery to ensure no harm was done from that missed chance.

They could not say the same about all the others. Mitchell Marsh had not scored when he flicked Nyumbu to short leg but Tino Mawoyo put down the chance. Marsh added 40 runs with Clarke, although he only contributed 15. Brad Haddin should have been out on 5 but Waller dropped a return catch from a top-edge, on 14 when Chatara fluffed a chance in his follow-through, and on 17 when Chatara put down an easier opportunity at short fine leg.

Amid all of that, Clarke brought up his 50 off 80 balls, but left the field on 68 in the 43rd over because of hamstring trouble. That gave Zimbabwe the opening they wanted and they stormed through. Utseya had James Faulkner caught at slip off the first ball he faced and Williams bowled Mitchell Starc through the gate in the next over to leave Australia 150 for 7.

Only Cutting's cameo at No. 10, Haddin's 49, and Chigumbura using seamers at the end instead of spinners took Australia over 200, but this time it was not enough, especially because their attack was without Mitchell Johnson, who was rested.

Zimbabwe had not made such a total in their last four ODIs but that changed because they got a better start today. Tino Mawoyo and Sikandar Raza delivered the best opening partnership of the last eight matches through patience and application.

They waited until the third over before taking their first run and Raza reined in his usual aggressive instincts as much as he could. He could not resist if anything was too short or too full but he got away with it until Australia introduced spin in the 12th over. 

Lyon's second legitimate delivery turned sharply from outside off into Raza, who was surprised by extra bounce as he tried to cut and handed first slip a catch. In his next over Lyon got rid of Mawoyo too.

Those wickets brought Zimbabwe's most experienced batting pair, Hamilton Masakadza and Taylor, together. Taylor swept with confidence and the pair negotiated flight and turn from both Lyon and Maxwell. They were separated only when Clarke, who returned to lead in the 19th over, brought Starc back. He fired one in full and fast to cut Masakadza in half and end the third-wicket stand on 56.

Seven deliveries later, Taylor went forward to a loopy ball from Lyon that snuck between bat and pad to hit off-stump, but it was only when Sean Williams was caught at slip to give Lyon career-best figures of 4 for 44 that Zimbabwe were in danger of unraveling. They teetered on 102 for 5 and Lyon still had 26 balls to bowl.

Chigumbura eased concerns with two fours off Lyon to suggest Zimbabwe were far from done. Waller helped to see Lyon off, though it meant defending rather than looking for runs. His 11 came off 39 balls and when he handed Maxwell a return catch, Chigumbura was left with the tail.

Donald Tiripano was dismissed for 3 but Prosper Utseya was not anywhere. He sliced Starc through point for his first runs and showed he was willing to move the score along to take pressure off his captain.

Zimbabwe entered the last ten overs needing 44 to win and Chigumbura and Utseya hunted them down in calculated fashion. Chigumbura's finishing skills shone through when he guided Marsh to third man, but he largely concentrated on rotating strike and letting Utseya take risks. With the field spread, the pair did not have to take too many, apart from when Utseya cleared mid-on off a Faulkner length ball.

Chigunbura's 50 came off 61 balls with a punch through point and took Zimbabwe within 15 runs of victory. Even as they got closer, Chigumbura did not get over-ambitious and maintained a level head. Utseya struck the winning blow - a smoke over midwicket - with two overs to spare and gave Zimbabwe an outside chance of making the tri-series final. 

3rd ODI ENG 227 v IND 228/4 (IND win by 6 wkts)

India have taken a 2-0 lead in their one-day international series against England, beating the hosts by six wickets at Trent Bridge.

England made a strong start in their innings earlier today, reaching 82 without loss, but were bowled out for 227 with the final ball of their 50 overs at the crease.

Shikhar Dhawan and Ajinkya Rahane began the reply for Indian, but Chris Woakes dismissed Dhawan for just 16.

Rahane and Virat Kohli kept the run-rate steady for the visitors, but both were removed just short of their half-centuries.

Ambati Rayudu steadied the ship in the middle order, forming a 77-run partnership with Suresh Raina to leave India just short of England's total.

After Raina fell to James Tredwell, Ravindra Jadeja joined Rayudu at the crease, taking India past their target of 228 to secure their second win in as many matches.

The teams meet against at Edgbaston on Tuesday.

ENG 227

Fall of wickets: 82-1 (Hales 42), 93-2 (Cook 44), 97-3 (Root 2), 120-4 (Morgan 10), 138-5 (Bell 28), 149-6 (Stokes 2), 182-7 (Woakes 15), 202-8 (Buttler 42), 226-9 (Tredwell 30), 227-10 (Finn 6)

Cook	st Dhoni	b Rayudu	44
Hales	c Dhoni	b Raina	42
Bell	run out M Sharma		28
Root	st Dhoni	b Jadeja	2
Morgan	c Dhoni	b Ashwin	10
Buttler		b Ashwin	42
Stokes	c Raina	b Ashwin	2
Woakes	c M Sharma	b Shami	15
Tredwell	c and b	B Kumar	30
Finn	run out Rayudu		6
Anderson	not out		0
Extras		1nb 2w 3lb	6

IND 228/4

Fall of wickets: 35-1 (Dhawan 16), 85-2 (Rahane 45), 120-3 (Kohli 40), 207-4 (Raina 42)

Rahane	c Buttler	b Finn	45
Dhawan	c Morgan	b Woakes	16
Kohli	c Tredwell	b Stokes	40
Rayudu	not out		64
Raina	c Woakes	b Tredwell	42
Jadeja	not out		12
Extras		7w 2lb	9

3rd ODI SL 104/3 beat PAK 102 by 7 wickets

Sri Lanka 104 for 3 (Dilshan 50*) beat Pakistan 102 (Fawad 38*, Perera 4-34, Prasad 2-25) by seven wickets (D/L method)

Although there was little on paper to separate the two sides, it seemed during the first two ODIs that Sri Lanka were the better team for the long haul - less likely to make silly mistakes, and less likely to fold under pressure. And so it proved in the decider, as Pakistan crumbled to their ninth-lowest ODI total in a match that never threatened to become a genuine contest.

Sri Lanka strolled to their target in 18.2 overs, and Tillakaratne Dilshan reached his 38th ODI fifty with the winning four. Pakistan struck three times. They dismissed Kumar Sangakkara cheaply for the third time in a row, and the third umpire may have let Dilshan off early in his innings, but there was no way Sri Lanka were not winning this one.

For the first time in the series, Pakistan began a match in their comfort zone. Having had to chase two big targets, they won the toss and batted. 

This is what they like to do. It was the 31st toss Misbah-ul-Haq had won, and the 21st time he had chosen to bat. Pakistan had Saeed Ajmal back, and the pitch, everyone agreed, promised to help the spinners as the match progressed. In the deciding match of a three-match series, things were finally falling in place for them. Misbah said 260-270 would be a good score.

Pakistan did not get anywhere near that. The movement Lasith Malinga and Dhammika Prasad achieved early on may have forced them to rethink their target, but they surely would not have settled for 102 all out. They began at a crawl, scoring just six runs in the first five overs for the loss of Sharjeel Khan, but what followed flattered Sri Lanka's bowlers. 

This was not a typically flat ODI track, certainly, but it was definitely one on which a team could survive 50 overs. Pakistan were bowled out in less than 33, with their only respite coming during a 40-minute rain interruption when they were 81 for 8. The match was reduced, subsequently, to 48 overs a side.

Quite simply, Pakistan did not show up, which was a pity for the capacity crowd that turned up, klaxons blaring, to watch only the second ODI at the Rangiri Dambulla Stadium in the last four years. They were Sri Lanka supporters, but they would not have wanted their team to have it so easy. Dhammika Prasad replaced Nuwan Kulasekara - who had gone wicketless in the first two ODIs - and struck with just his ninth ball, as Sharjeel Khan flirted outside off stump with no footwork.

It was the start of a procession of dismissals that owed more to poor shot selection or execution than to any devilish trick of bowler or pitch. 

Ahmed Shehzad, Umar Akmal and Shahid Afridi were out going for big shots, Mohammad Hafeez tried to work Malinga across the line when the ball was still moving around, and Misbah was run-out for the third time in his last seven innings.

That dismissal ended the only period of play in which Pakistan threatened to dig themselves out of trouble. Fawad Alam joined Misbah with the score 14 for 3 in the eighth over, and it was not an unfamiliar situation for the two of them. 

During the Asia Cup final in March, against the same opposition, the two of them had put on 122 after coming together at 18 for 3. Fawad had gone on to make an unbeaten century, and with Umar Akmal adding a late flourish, Pakistan had recovered to post 260.

Misbah and Fawad began their partnership in much the same way they had done in that match, keeping the good balls out, gathering their runs with a nurdle here and a push there, and appeared to gather some momentum when they took 16 runs from the 11th over with three streaky boundaries through third man.

The end of that over brought an end to the first spells of both opening bowlers. Runs were still coming at a trickle, but that would not have bothered this pair of batsmen too much. In the second over after drinks, however, Misbah made a fatal misjudgment. He tapped the ball to the right of backward point and set off without hesitation. Mistake.

Dilshan attacked the ball, swooped down on it, got a little lucky with perfect bounce into his right hand, and threw down the stumps at the bowler's end. Misbah was nowhere near the crease, even if the umpire S Ravi was in enough doubt to signal for his colleague upstairs.

The last six wickets added 55 runs between them, as Thisara Perera extracted disconcerting bounce to run through the middle and lower order. Only Sohaib Maqsood got a genuinely difficult ball, though, one that reared at his rib-cage and kissed his glove as he tried to pull them out of the way. 

Umar, having smacked Thisara over long-on for six the previous ball, tried to pull him from outside off and top-edged a catch wide of mid-on. Saeed Ajmal fell in virtually the same manner. This would have been okay if he was batting with No. 11 at the other end, not so much when Fawad was still around. 

SA V ZIM Triangular Series Game 3

South Africa 231 (de Kock 76, Amla 66, Utseya 5-36, Nyumbu 3-42) beat Zimbabwe 170 (Williams 46, McLaren 3-24, Steyn 3-36) by 61 runs

Prosper Utseya's career-best 5 for 36, which included a hat-trick, was enough for Zimbabwe to bowl South Africa out for just the fourth time in the two countries' competitive history, but not enough to pull off an upset. On a surface where spinners claimed 11 of the 20 wickets to fall, neither side's batsmen were able to settle but Zimbabwe's proved more brittle.

With breaking points at the top, in the middle and at the bottom of their line-up, Zimbabwe could not muster the runs to match a South African XI that was without one of its best batsmen. AB de Villiers was rested for the second time in a week and it seemed South Africa would be made to rue his absence when Zimbabwe reined them in from an opening stand of 142 to conjure a collapse of 9 for 53.

But Zimbabwe went one (or many) worse. They lost their last five wickets for 32 and the five batsmen who managed starts could not convert them into anything more substantial to leave them with the same concerns they have had over the last fortnight.

In the batting department Zimbabwe continue to lack, but their bowling, even without suspended Tinashe Panyangara, prospered. They were able to redirect South Africa after they seemed destined for a third score of over 300 on this Zimbabwe tour.

Hashim Amla and Quinton de Kock took more risks than usual but they got away with it. Amla offered a return catch to Brian Vitori in the fifth over and could have been run out twice before he reached 25 while de Kock also relied on fortune. He had a chance drop short of cover and was lucky to see an inside-edge scream past the offstump for four.

Once they settled, de Kock targeted Elton Chigumbura's short ball and reached his fifty off 45 deliveries to take the pressure off Amla, who slowed down after the early rush. Amla's half-century came off 70 balls and by then both he and de Kock knew they would have to be more watchful because turn had become a factor.

Sean Williams beat the bat almost immediately and Nyumbu produced flight and zip in his second spell. But it was only when Utseya was introduced brought on that serrations began. 

He made the initial breakthrough when Amla came down the pitch to one that turned into him, was beaten and found well short of his crease to provide Brendan Taylor an easy stumping chance. Then Utseya plucked through the South Africa's top-order and ploughing into their middle to allow Zimbabwe to dictate proceedings.

De Kock squandered the chance to anchor the innings when he tried to reverse-sweep Utseya over short third man but was caught by a one-handed, leaping Chatara just outside the ring, Rilee Rossouw's first-match first-ball duck was repeated in his second game when he prodded tentatively at a tossed up ball to edge to slip and David Miller was rapped on the front pad when he played for non-existent turn. Those three wickets in three balls made Utseya the second Zimbabwean to claim a hat-trick after Eddo Brandes, in 1997.

South Africa still had Faf du Plessis and JP Duminy at the crease and would have looked to them for a recovery but Zimbabwe were wise to the possibility and quickly shut it down. Utseya and Williams tied South Africa down and tangled them in turn, while generously tossing it up to tempt as well.

Zimbabwe sealed off the boundary for more than half the South African innings and batsmen fell either in frustration or when following flight. Duminy was out lbw when he played outside the line to give Utseya his fifth and du Plessis chipped Nyumbu to midwicket to leave the lower order on their own.

Ironically, it was up to South Africa's spinners to take them out of trouble. Imran Tahir and Aaron Phangiso's last wicket stand of 36 pushed South Africa over 200 and gave them something to defend.

Before either of the tweakers were needed, Zimbabwe's opening stand was broken. Tino Mawoyo was run-out in the third over to leave Stephen Mangongo with ever-more questions about who best to use at the top. What he will know is that Sikandar Raza is a keeper, but needs to convert. Yet again, Raza showed promise, pounced on width and dealt with the short ball impressively before giving it away later on.

When he was batting with Hamilton Masakadza, Zimbabwe took the fight to South Africa with aggressive boundary-hunting before Phangiso wrested it back. He was introduced in the Powerplay and with his fourth delivery - the arm ball - found the gap between Masakadza's bat and pad to peg back legstump. Taylor left the same gap and was bowled in the next over, with his offstump knocked back, to prolong a lean run for the former captain.

Taylor's dismissal allowed South Africa to keep Zimbabwe quiet with just 24 runs coming from the next six overs. Situations like that are where Raza should show patience but he did not. Imran Tahir had been brought on the over before and Raza had assessed his tendency to flight it but still tried to launch him over long-off and ended up holing out.

South Africa could have sealed the deal three overs later when Malcolm Waller edged Kyle Abbott but the ball went between de Kock and Amla to give Waller a second chance. He went on to share in the biggest partnership of Zimbabwe's innings, 46 with Sean Williams, but succumbed to the short ball to leave Williams to be the hero.

Williams threatened with confident strokeplay off the front and back foot but threw it away when he flicked Ryan McLaren to Amla at midwicket. With that, Zimbabwe hopes faded and when McLaren picked up two wickets in successive balls two overs later, they disappeared altogether to condemn them to a seventh straight defeat. 

T20 WI DNB V BAN 31/0 Match Abandoned as a no result

Match abandoned Bangladesh 31 for 0 v West Indies

The one-off Twenty20 between West Indies and Bangladesh was called off after heavy rain hit Warner Park 17 minutes into the match. The match officials held a final inspection more than two hours later after which they decided conditions weren't good enough even for a shortened game.

Besides the downpour, the groundstaff had to battle strong winds, which left them struggling to control the covers early on. The extra time they took to cover the surface allowed the deluge to drench the pitch. There was also trouble with the floodlights which hampered the groundstaff in their work after the rain stopped.

Before the rain, Bangladesh batted and got to 31 for no loss in 4.4 overs. Tamim Iqbal struck one over mid-off and Anamul Haque got a four and a six but the visitors' brightest start on tour was cut short.

The two-match Test series begins on September 5 in Kingstown, before which Bangladesh will play a three-day practice match in Basseterre against St Kitts and Nevis.

Mashrafe Mortaza, who is not part of the Test squad, suffered a groin injury in the first one-dayer and had been rested for this game. He is set to head home to gear up for the Asian Games next month. 

2nd ODI IND 304/6 beat ENG 161 by 133 runs

Suresh Raina hit a superb century as India cruised to victory against England in the second one-day international at Cardiff.

Raina scored 100 off 75 balls as Rohit Sharma and MS Dhoni also hit half-centuries as the tourists posted 304-6.

Ravi Jadeja then claimed four wickets as England subsided to 161 in their rain-adjusted chase of 295.

Alex Hales hit 40 on his debut but England will have to come from behind in the five-match ODI series.

The hosts began promisingly enough after Alastair Cook won the toss and elected to bowl under grey skies.

Chris Woakes was an impressive performer in Birmingham's Twenty 20 Finals Day victory at the weekend and the seamer continued his good limited-overs form as he removed two of India's most out-of-form batsman in an early burst.

First Shikhar Dhawan edged behind to Jos Buttler attempting an extravagant drive, then Virat Kohli inexplicably drilled his second ball straight to Cook at mid-off.

At 19-2 after eight overs, India were in trouble, but Sharma and Ajinkya Rahane showed the sort of application India lacked so badly in the Test series as they rebuilt the innings.

Rahane fell to the excellent James Tredwell for 41, but the breakthrough failed to check India's momentum as it brought Raina to the crease.

The left-hander looked fluent from the start, timing the ball sweetly as he combined with first Sharma and then Dhoni to accelerate the Indian innings.

England gave the tourists plenty of assistance with a wayward bowling performance, with Chris Jordan particularly culpable as he sent down 12 wides in returning figures of 0-73 from his 10 overs.

India plundered 133 runs off the last 13 overs, with Raina reaching his fourth ODI century off 75 balls as India posted 304-6.

A brief rain delay after the interval ensured that England would chase an adjusted target of 295 off 47 overs, and when the showers abated, the hosts began brightly enough.

Cook and debutant Hales compiled 53 off the first 10 overs before Mohammed Shami swung the match decisively in India's direction.

The paceman removed Cook and Ian Bell within three balls, and when Joe Root perished to Bhuvneshwar Kumar soon after, England were 63-3.

Hales played some stylish shots on his debut but he was caught for 40 trying to sweep Jadeja, before the spinner removed Buttler for two.

England's last hopes rested with Eoin Morgan, but when the Middlesex batsman fell to Ravichandran Ashwin for 28, the game was up.

Jadeja claimed two tail-end wickets to finish with impressive figures of 4-28 as India completed a straightforward victory.

The crushing win provides a much-needed fillip for the tourists, who were comprehensively beaten 3-1 in the Test series.

England meanwhile have now lost four of their last five ODIs, and their search for a consistent winning formula in the 50-over format continues with the World Cup just six months away.

Triangular Series Game 2 SA 328/3 beat AUS 327/7

South Africa 328 for 3 (de Villiers 136*, du Plessis 106) beat Australia 327 for 7 (Finch 102, Bailey 66, Hughes 51) by seven wickets

South Africa needed 91 runs from 77 balls when AB de Villiers, with 91 to his name and cramp slicing through his hamstring, walked across his crease, got down on one knee and scooped James Faulkner over his left-shoulder onto the open stands for six. In that one shot, all the questions about South Africa's ability to take on the best were answered.

De Villiers saw his childhood friend Faf du Plessis record his first ODI century in his 51st game, scored a hundred of his own and was there to scamper the winning single when JP Duminy called for it with 21 balls remaining.

The seven-wicket win in a 300-plus chase was as comprehensive as South Africa could have wanted after Australia controlled most of first half. Aaron Finch's fourth ODI century saw them through the middle-over squeeze and set up for a strong finish. 

Australia took 93 runs off the last 10 overs to post 327 but South Africa did not need a similarly swift response. De Villiers and du Plessis shared a record 206-run third-wicket stand, the highest at Harare Sports Club and the highest for South Africa against Australia, to break the back of the chase and put bowling issues on the backburner for now.

Both teams would be disappointed with their performance in the field, Australia more than South Africa, because they put down two chances as well as bled runs. 

Mitchell Johnson let de Villiers off the hook in his follow through when he was on 78 and George Bailey put him down at point on 85. Add that to the knowledge that none of their bowlers held an end and Australia will have some scrutinising to do.

Johnson was over-reliant on his short ball, which lacked its usual venom on a surface without much in it. Mitchell Starc, Kane Richardson and James Faulkner also struggled to find the right length and the absence of a specialist spinner, with Nathan Lyon benched, was shown up especially against Imran Tahir's returns.

Tahir was South Africa's best performer with the ball and put the brakes on Australia after Finch and Phillip Hughes gave them a start of 62 runs in the first 10 overs. He removed both Hughes and Mitchell Marsh in his first spell which formed part of a ten-over period in which South Africa gave away just 32 runs and one boundary.

That proved vital because they lacked control later on as Finch and Bailey combined to threaten a late burst. Finch went from 80 to a century in 11 balls while Bailey tore into Morne Morkel and Ryan McLaren short balls to leave de Villiers without a banker for the death. 

Wayne Parnell, who conceded 46 runs in six overs thanks largely to a misdirected line down the leg-side, was used in the final over and cost de Villiers 20 runs. But all that was made to seem minimal when South Africa were at the crease.

Quinton de Kock and Hashim Ama were merciless on width in the opening passages and wiped away 44 runs in seven overs before Australia grabbed the upper-hand. Amla was well caught by Steven Smith at point and de Kock top-edged a pull to deep square leg to leave South Africa stuttering.

But de Villiers and du Plessis played partly with the watchfulness they employed in the Adelaide Test match almost three years ago and partly with aggression to keep South Africa in the hunt. They ran well between the wickets even when de Villiers was in so much discomfort he needed on-field treatment, they punished anything on a length and did not take risks until de Villiers offered his twin chances.

The two drops may have been the turning point because as Australia's confidence waned, South Africa's swelled. 

Du Plessis maiden ODI hundred came up off 95 balls with a crack through the covers, de Villiers' followed two balls later with a loft over mid-off and as they partnership grew to a double-century, South Africa only had victory in sight even though du Plessis was not there at the end to see it. Fittingly, de Villiers was. 

2nd ODI SL 310/9 V PAK 233

Sri Lanka 310 for 9 (Mathews 93, Jayawardene 67, Perera 65, Hafeez 3-39) beat Pakistan 233 (Hafeez 62, Shehzad 56, Perera 3-19) by 77 runs

The varying rhythms of the one-day game were on full display in the second ODI in Hambantota, where the spinners thrived and the quicks toiled in a high-scoring encounter. 

There were bursts of boundaries alternating with periods of lull right through the match: SL began in a hurry despite losing early wickets, then counterattacked against the spinners before being becalmed though Mahela Jayawardene and Angelo Mathews had put on a big partnership and lost a bunch of wickets to Mohammad Hafeez only to be bailed out by a brutal Thisara Perera onslaught in the death overs that lifted the target to 311.

No team has ever successfully hunted down more than 300 in Sri Lanka, but Pakistan were bursting with confidence after the back-from-the-dead chase in the first ODI. 

Though Pakistan lost Sharjeel Khan in the fourth over, Hafeez hit a dazzling half-century that included six boundaries in his first 10 deliveries. With Ahmed Shehzad playing the supporting act, Hafeez tore apart the new-ball bowlers to drive Pakistan to 98 for 1 after 12 overs.

Then came the big squeeze from the Sri Lankan spinners. Seekkuge Prasanna was playing his first ODI since December and had messed up with the bat after being promoted to No. 6, but flourished with the ball, besides being electric in the field. Prasanna and Rangana Herath exploited the help in the surface to string together loads of dot balls to pile the pressure on Pakistan.

After a six-over spell in which only 16 runs were scored, the wickets duly arrived. Hafeez missed a straighter one from Prasanna and was lbw for 62. With only two genuine spinners in the line-up, Sri Lanka turned to the part-time tweakers of Tillakaratne Dilshan. He responded by getting the dangerous Umar Akmal caught behind off his first delivery.

Those wickets resulted in a galloping number of dot balls as Misbah-ul-Haq took time to settle and Shehzad couldn't force the pace. By the 30th over, Pakistan had played out 100 scoreless deliveries. The quick-thinking Sangakkara produced a breakthrough with another superbly anticipated catch down the leg side when Shehzad went for the lap sweep.

When the Powerplay came along, Sri Lanka belatedly decided that Herath should have the responsibility of bowling three overs in the Powerplay, and not Lasith Malinga. Herath delivered, first dismissing Misbah and then the hero of the first ODI, Sohaib Maqsood.

It wasn't yet game over as Fawad Alam was still battling, and no one can tell what Shahid Afridi will do. Afridi began with some powerful boundaries, and with the spinners bowled out, Sri Lanka will have just started worrying when he holed out for 17. The tail didn't last too long and Sri Lanka wrapped up a 77-run victory, though the match was tighter than the margin suggested.

The margin too would have been tighter had Pakistan's bowlers not lost their way in the final stages of the innings earlier in the evening. After having Sri Lanka down to 194 for 6 in the 38th over, thanks to Hafeez's triple-strike, they still gave away 80 runs in the final six overs as Perera and Mathews ran amok.

The power-hitting that makes Perera such a valued limited-overs player was in full display as he launched everything in his range over the leg side. From 15 off 18, he rocketed to 57 off 32 as the bowlers wilted under the blaze of big hits. 

At the 40-over stage, Sri Lanka would have been satisfied with a final score around 275, but the Perera blitz shot them past 300.

Mathews had been less spectacular but his 93 was the knock around which the Sri Lankan innings revolved. After letting Jayawardene dominate a 122-run fourth-innings partnership, and keeping his strike rate below 70 for much of his innings, he opened out with a series of muscular hits over extra cover and towards midwicket at the end. He went past 3000 ODI runs, and had time for a maiden century in the format but he, as so often this year, perished in the 90s.

Jayawardene had been the stand-out performer in the first half of the innings, showing yet again that violent strokeplay was not necessary to score at a pace demanded by modern cricket. He used the lap sweep and the late cut past backward point, he scooted down the track to chip over mid-off and midwicket - there were four fours from him in a five-ball sequence against the spinners, and the pressure built by the early wickets evaporated.

Pakistan needed to capitalise once Hafeez provided the breakthroughs during the Powerplay, but their new-ball bowlers, Junaid Khan and Mohammad Irfan, had days to forget as Sri Lanka ramped up the score to nearly unreachable levels. 

3rd ODI WI 331/7 beat BAN 247/8 by 91 runs

West Indies 338 for 7 (Ramdin 169, Bravo 124) beat Banglandesh 247 for 8 (Mushfiqur 72, Tamim 55) by 91 runs

Denesh Ramdin wouldn't have had as much fun on a cricket field as on Monday afternoon at Warner Park. His malevolent 169 was part of the highest third wicket partnership in ODIs with Darren Bravo, who also accumulated a century, and ensured West Indies completed a 3-0 whitewash by 91 runs.

The hosts were catapulted to 338 for 7 in 50 overs, a score that was well out of Bangladesh's reach especially at a time when their batsmen are scraping the bottom of the confidence barrel. But they are due some for bouncing back after such a hiding, making 247 for 8, having lasted their full quota.

Bangladesh were 2 for 2 in the second over and were threatening to sink further, but Tamim Iqbal struck his first international fifty in more than nine months and 18 innings. Mushfiqur Rahim top scored with 72, but since he holed out in the deep the last hopes his team had faded away.

West Indies' bowlers could bide their time thanks to Ramdin and Bravo. The duo clattered 19 sixes, the most by West Indies in an ODI en route to amassing 258 runs for the third wicket, beating the previous record held by Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers by 20 runs. For most of their union, it was hard to see past their bats as they dined on a bowling attack that was at times perfect for big hitting.

Mashrafe Mortaza and Al-Amin Hossain, despite the early promise, barely clocked above 130 kmph while Abdur Razzak, Sohag Gazi and Mahmudullah persisted with shortish darts. With a moderate-sized ground, a flat surface and with a bit of wind behind them, West Indies simply took off.

The early losses of Lendl Simmons and Chris Gayle were forgotten with Ramdin and Bravo using singles to ease the pressure. But there was a change is tactics in the 19th over - 10 runs were taken off it, 19 was smacked in the 22nd over, with Ramdin peppering the crowd behind midwicket and Bravo opting to go straight.

Ramdin razed three sixes off Mortaza in the 38th over and hurtled to his second century in four ODIs. Bravo reached his hundred soon after, a knock that was a long time coming as he has struggled to convert fifties into three-figure marks in ODIs.

Ramdin struck 11 sixes while Bravo contributed eight and while they made merry, although none of it would have happened if Bangladesh had held onto their chances

Mushfiqur missed a stumping off Bravo, batting on 10, when Abdur Razzak beat him in length. The ball was so poorly fumbled that the wicketkeeper flailed at air when he tried for a second time. Razzak had his own gaffe when he didn't get under a looping ball in mid-on after Ramdin skied Mashrafe on 35.

Razzak lost his form, bowling much too short and far too quickly. Gazi's struggles might be understandable, considering the scrutiny surrounding his bowling actions. 

He hardly found a rhythm, and was perhaps wrongly entrusted with the first over of the match with all the focus on him. Al-Amin was the only saving grace, ending up with his second four-wicket haul in ODIs, both coming in this series. But he could rein in the West Indies batsmen.

West Indies also faced difficulty with Bangladesh's third-wicket stand. Mushfiqur and Tamim added 99 runs with a bit of style, but the bluster was obviously missing. 

Anamul Haque and Imrul Kayes were gone by the first eleven balls, the latter to Kemar Roach's stunning one-handed catch at mid-on. Mahmudullah offered some more resistance through a 55-run fifth wicket stand with his captain. The contest faded away in the 22nd over when Tamim got out, and the rest of the game couldn't have ended sooner.

The abiding memory from the first-ever day-night match at Warner Park, though, would be what happened during day time. Ramdin and Bravo slamming one six after another made to keep the fans singing and dancing. 

Triangular Series Game 1 AUS 350/6 v ZIM 152

Australia 350 for 6 (Maxwell 93, Marsh 89) beat Zimbabwe 152 (Masakadza 70, Smith 3-16) by 198 runs

A blistering 109-run stand in nine overs between Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell saw Australia rack up the highest ODI total at the Harare Sports Club and leave Zimbabwe in the dust in the tri-series opener. 

Both Marsh, promoted to No.3 in Michael Clarke's injury-enforced absence, and Maxwell recorded their highest scores in the format as Australia stacked on 147 runs in their last ten overs. Zimbabwe's best batsman, Hamilton Masakadza, managed less than half of that.

On a late winter surface, neither team's bowlers were able to extract much from the pitch but Zimbabwe's attack was rendered particularly toothless in the face of Australia's aggression. 

The usually miserly Tinashe Panyangara and Tendai Chatara were torn apart while John Nyumbu was swept and sliced all over the ground. 

In contrast Australia's frontline seamers were disciplined and their premier spinner, Nathan Lyon, found turn against a much meeker line-up who never looked likely to chase at seven runs to the over.

Australia's innings was sandwiched between a solid start and flourishing finish as they first assessed the conditions and the opposition and then showed how they would react given the lack of any real threats. Aaron Finch and Brad Haddin, who was given the opening berth ahead of Phil Hughes, were circumspect upfront but found the boundary often in the first 15 overs with Zimbabwe's bowlers offering a mix of deliveries that spanned the spectrum of too short, too wide, too full and too far down the leg-side.

When Elton Chigumbura introduced himself in the 15th over,it seemed groundhog day was looming for the hosts. Fortune intervened to give them a breakthrough when Haddin went down the pitch to defend against Chigumbura but the ball dropped on the pitch, bounced behind him and removed the leg bail. 

That was Zimbabwe's cue to enforce a squeeze, engineered by Prosper Utseya. Tight lines against a watchful Marsh resulted in just 23 runs coming from the next seven-and-a-half overs, in which Finch reached his half-century. In a bid to get a move on, Australia took the Powerplay at the start of the 29th over but found themselves similarly stuck. 

Zimbabwe gave away just 25 runs in the five-over period, got rid of Finch, and tightened their grip afterwards when Utseya held on to a catch at short third man to dismiss George Bailey.

Little did they know what lay on the other side of that wicket.

Maxwell allowed himself an 12-ball sighter before charging Utseya for the first of his three sixes. Australia's score peeped over 200 as the last 10 overs began and exploded to 281 by the time the last five overs had arrived.

Marsh and Maxwell put to use the six-hitting practice Australia had done the day before the match and tucked into Williams, Nyumbu and Panyangara, sometimes finding the boundary, other times going over it. Twenty runs came off an Nyumbu over, and 19 and 15 off two from Panyangara. Marsh went from 50 to 88 in 32 balls; Maxwell from 20 to 64 in 18 balls and both seemed destined for three figures.

But as Marsh was about to enter the nineties, he failed to clear long-on and was caught off a Chatara slower-ball. Maxwell marched to 93 but then also misjudged one and gave Chatara a second consolation wicket. But the damage had already been done and Zimbabwe could only hope for a respectable response.

For that, they needed a strong opening stand but their third combination in the last four matches could not deliver. Tino Mawoyo, who was brought into the XI, was trapped lbw by a Mitchell Starc delivery that caught him in his crease as it angled in.

Sikandar Raza and Hamilton Masakadza showed fight with the highest-stand of the Zimbabwe innings of 63 runs with Masakadza the mainstay. Raza refused to take a run off Mitchell Johnson, playing out two successive maidens from him, but eased the pressure when Kane Richardson was brought on and he could hit with confidence through the off side but he again threw away a start when he hit Lyon straight to backward square leg.

Masakadza held the innings together as Taylor, fresh from being dropped, pushed lazily at a Johnson delivery with a hint of extra bounce to be caught at slip, Chigumbura top-edged a short ball after being hit by Johnson and Sean Williams gifted a catch to cover. At 88 for 5 in the 23rd over, Zimbabwe were out of the contest and besides Masakadza's 24th ODI fifty, there were few positives for them.

Soft dismissals were the primary method of departure for Zimbabwe's batsman with partnerships lean and bowlers given a free pass to collect wickets. Chigumbura used one word to sum up Zimbabwe's performance. "Outplayed." It was actually much more than that because they undid themselves as much as they were undone against an Australian side who didn't look like they had been without game time since January. 

1st ODI ENG V IND (Abandoned without a ball bowled)

The first one-day international between England and India has been called off because of rain in Bristol.

Not a single ball was bowled at the Bristol County Ground before the decision was made to abandon the match.

England and India were due to face each other in the first of five ODIs after a five-Test series which England won convincingly 3-1.

They will now hope to start the ODI series on Wednesday in Cardiff.

1st ODI SL 275/7 V PAK 277/6

Pakistan 277 for 6 (Maqsood 89, Fawad 62) beat Sri Lanka 275 for 7 (Mathews 89, Jayawardene 63, Wahab 3-50) by four wickets (D/L method)

Three-fourths of the way through this first ODI, the match seemed to be over as a contest. But just when the spectators at Hambantota might have resigned themselves to watch the game drag itself to a stultifying finish, Pakistan staged one of those incredible revivals that sprinkle 50-over cricket with that dash of magic. 

The protagonists in this drama were Sohaib Maqsood and Fawad Alam, who added 147 runs for the sixth wicket, in 117 balls, to bring Pakistan back from the dead and drag them over the line with one ball left to play, after all manner of final-over drama. It was only the second time in the last three years that Pakistan had successfully chased a 250-plus target.

In a match shortened to 45 overs a side, following a shower that began six overs into the game and lasted just under an hour, Sri Lanka had set Pakistan 275 to win. They had recovered from 75 from 4 in the 18th over, thanks to Angelo Mathews, who made his highest ODI score and put on 116 for the fifth wicket with Mahela Jayawardene, and thanks to an unbeaten 15-ball 39 from Ashan Priyanjan, who had thrown Pakistan's pace bowlers off their line with his movement around the crease.

Having sent Sri Lanka in and had them in trouble, with his trio of left-arm seamers exploiting the bounce and overcast conditions, Misbah-ul-Haq had seen the game slip alarmingly from Pakistan's grasp. His own tactics had played some part in this momentum shift - he brought spin on from both ends and spread his fields almost as soon as the Jayawardene-Mathews partnership had begun - and Sri Lanka had taken full toll, scoring 60 runs from their last five overs and 105 from the last 10.

Halfway through the chase, Pakistan had lost even more momentum and were sinking without a trace. Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan and Umar Akmal had perished trying to boost a sluggish scoring rate, and Ahmed Shehzad, who had looked good without quite getting beyond third gear, got a good ball from Thisara Perera, which nipped in off the track and bowled him through the gate. When Misbah-ul-Haq gloved an attempted sweep to the keeper, at the exact halfway point of the allotted 45 overs, Pakistan needed 169 runs at 7.5 an over.

Maqsood scored at a run a ball right from the time he walked in, but Fawad at the other end was struggling. The required rate was creeping up towards nine an over when Maqsood ran down the pitch to the first ball of the 33rd over, and was beaten by extravagant turn from Rangana Herath. So was Kumar Sangakkara behind the stumps, however, and Maqsood had a life and Pakistan four byes.

Having let Maqsood off, Sri Lanka's worries grew as he began finding the boundary roughly once an over. He punched a waist-high full-toss from Thisara Perera between the bowler and mid-off, sliced a length ball from Herath deliberately through the vacant slip area, and whipped a low Malinga full-toss - in the first over of the batting Powerpolay - into the narrow gap between midwicket and deep square leg. Fawad, who till then had looked to bring Maqsood on strike whenever possible, then struck two fours off one Kulasekara over.

With three field-restricted overs still remaining, Pakistan now needed 72 from 48. Maqsood and Fawad, already sprinting frantically between the wickets, upped their game: in the next over from Malinga, they ran three doubles in four balls. Nineteen came off the next two overs, and Pakistan now needed 45 from 30: Pakistan were in routine Twenty20 territory.

All they needed was that one big over, and it came off a bowler who had tormented them during the Test series. The two batsmen at the crease hadn't been around for Herath to inflict any psychological damage on them, though, and all they saw were the gaps in the field. Fawad drilled Herath through cover, Maqsood swept him square, Fawad swept him fine. Fourteen came off that over, and Pakistan were coasting.

This being Pakistan, though, a bit of late drama was in order. Shahid Afridi provided it, predictably enough, after Fawad fell to a slower ball from Malinga. Afridi walked in with 22 required from 18, and he and Maqsood brought it down without too many alarms to five from the last over. Having given away singles off the first two balls, Kulasekara bowled a dot ball to Afridi. Three from three.

Afridi swung at the next ball, a short one, and missed. Maqsood hared out of his crease, trying to steal the strike. Afridi sent him back. Sangakkara underarmed a throw to the bowler. Maqsood was miles out. Kulasekara was at handshaking distance from the stumps. The ball slipped from his grasp and missed the stumps.

Kulasekara sent down the fifth ball. It was short and wide, and Afridi smacked it past point for four. Pakistan had lost this match more than once, but they had won when it counted. 

2nd ODI WI 247/7 v BAN 70 (WI win by 177 runs)

Edwards bowled early by Al Amin for 0 (6/1)
Gayle went for a breezy 58 (93/2)
Darren Bravo made 53 (144/3)
Ramdin made 34 (171/4)
Pollard made 26 (222/5)
Simmons made 40 (231/6)
Dwayne Bravo made 6 (231/7)

50 overs West Indies 247 for 7 (Gayle 58, Darren Bravo 53, Mashrafe 3-39) v Bangladesh

The Bangladesh bowlers maintained a stranglehold on the West Indies batsmen in the second ODI at St George's as the home side made 247 for 7 after they were put into bat on the same pitch as the first match two days ago.

Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo struck half centuries but West Indies may regret changing batting positions of Lendl Simmons and Denesh Ramdin as they failed to get the best out of both. Simmons struggled to put bat to ball, while Ramdin hardly made use of batting at No 4.

Mashrafe Mortaza took three wickets but it were the spinners - Mahmudullah, Abdur Razzak and Sohag Gazi - who led the way. The trio shared just two wickets in 30 overs, but bowled tight lines and ensured the West Indies batsmen never got away.

For the second game in a row, Kirk Edwards missed a ball that tailed into his stumps. His bat came down diagonally and got him into a tangle. Al-Amin Hossain took advantage of Edwards' technical error, ripping up the off stump.

Chris Gayle was tied down for a while after the first wicket, but he broke free in the fifth over, hammering Mashrafe for a straight six before pulling Al-Amin over wide long-on in the next over. Darren Bravo at the other end took his time, and let Gayle take care of the scoring.

Sixes flew in, three more, as Gayle patiently waited for the Bangladesh bowlers to drop short or bowl full. Darren Bravo got just two boundaries during this time - one edged between first and third slip and the other glided through midwicket. 

Gayle scored three fours and four sixes as he moved to his first 50 since June last year. It was a stop-start innings, lacking the tempo associated with Gayle's innings of past. He was either picking up a boundary or a six, or nothing. He was soon dismissed though, thumping a long hop from Mahmudullah down midwicket's throat.

Darren Bravo continued to struggle but hit a straight six off Abdur Razzak, who was only introduced after Gayle was dismissed. Mushfiqur Rahim ensured Gayle and Bravo faced right-arm off-spin exclusively during their partnership, going with the trend among recent Bangladesh captains of only employing spinners who take the ball away from batsmen.

Neither Mahmudullah nor Razzak disappointed their captain. The experienced left-arm spinner hardly gave anything away apart from the six, tying down Ramdin and Simmons.

The fourth wicket partnership between the two batsmen brought West Indies just 27 runs in 7.3 overs, which also consumed 27 balls from the batting Powerplay. Only 21 runs came during the Powerplay.

Kieron Pollard couldn't repeat his first ODI heroics, but he did strike two fours and a six. It was not enough as Simmons continued to bat slowly at the other end. Pollard was furious with himself when he bottom-edged a short delivery from Mashrafe in the 47th over on to his stumps.

Simmons' struggled ended in the penultimate over when he jumped down the track for the umpteenth time but couldn't connect. He holed out to Mahmudullah at long-on. Bravo fell off the next ball to Mashrafe, giving the pace bowler a chance at a hat-trick. But Sunil Narine averted it. 

West Indies innings		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	CH Gayle	c Sohag Gazi b Mahmudullah	58	67	3	5	86.56
	21.2 51.5 mph, Gayle is gone! not the most threatening of deliveries from Mahmudullah, but it is good enough to get the big wicket, it was shortish ball that stayed a bit low, Gayle had loads of time to pick his spot and dispatch it, he picks out the man at deep midwicket though, Mahmudullah is elated, Gayle grins ruefully, knowing he has given it away 93/2
	KA Edwards	b Al-Amin Hossain	0	6	0	0	0.00
	1.6 83.0 mph, the off stump is cartwheeling there! Al amin has struck, Edwards didn't look comfortable at all in the middle, he won't have to spend any more time there, a short of length ball that cuts in to hit the top of off stump, not entirely sure what Edwards was doing there, no footwork as he tries to keep that delivery out, he can't, he's on his way 5/1
	DM Bravo	lbw b Sohag Gazi	53	82	2	1	64.63
	31.6 54.8 mph, huge lbw appeal, and Gazi has his reward after a tight over, the well-set Bravo is dismissed, it was an arm ball from Gazi, Bravo ends up playing down the wrong line, he was expecting the conventional offbreak, struck in line, Aleem Dar doesn't need much time to make up his mind, Bravo is on his way 144/3
	D Ramdin†	c †Mushfiqur Rahim b Al-Amin Hossain	34	51	1	0	66.66
	39.3 72.6 mph, Al-Amin shows some bowling nous as he drops the pace on this delivery, bowling in the same channel as before. Simmons, who was looking increasingly fidgety outside that off stump, this time looks to blast the bowler down the ground, but only succeeds in getting a thick outside edge which carries to Mushfiqur, who takes a good, low catch 171/4
	LMP Simmons	c Mahmudullah b Mashrafe Mortaza	40	61	3	0	65.57
	48.3 74.0 mph, this time uses his feet to get to the pitch as he lifts this high and handsome over long on, but doesn't get the distance required as this falls into the waiting hands of Mahmudullah, who ends up taking a straightforward catch. Ends a miserable stay at the crease for Simmons, who never really had the kind of fluency he craved for. 231/6
	KA Pollard	b Mashrafe Mortaza	26	20	2	1	130.00
	46.4 75.9 mph, and it's all over as Pollard, looking for a big hit through long on, gets an under edge which spills behind onto his stumps, rearranging them much to his chagrin. Big wicket there for Bangladesh as this is the kind of situation Pollard would have loved to be around for. 222/5
	DJ Bravo*	c †Mushfiqur Rahim b Mashrafe Mortaza	6	5	1	0	120.00
	48.4 73.8 mph, this is just what the doctor ordered for Bangladesh as this time Bravo, looking to pull across the line of this shorter one outside off, ends up getting an outside edge which Mushfiqur snaps up gleefully. Mortaza on a hat-trick, and West Indies' hopes of quick runs looking rather grim 231/7
	JO Holder	not out	8	4	0	1	200.00
	SP Narine	not out	7	4	0	1	175.00
	Extras	(b 1, lb 2, w 12)	15
	Total	(7 wickets; 50 overs)	247	(4.94 runs per over)

Bangladesh: Anamul 6 given OUT, did review not enough evidence to overturn it (12/1)

Kayes made 1 (27/2)

Shamsur bowled (42/3)

Mushfiqur caught behind 6 (57/4)

Mahmudullah gone first ball (57/5)

Tamim Iqbal gone 37 (57/6)

Gazi gone for 2 (60/7)

Nasir gone for 6 (66/8)

Mortaza gone LBW for 2 (70/9)

Al-Amin run out (70 all out)

West Indies 247 for 7 (Gayle 58, Darren Bravo 53, Mashrafe 3-39) beat Bangladesh 70 (Tamim 37, Narine 3-13, Roach 3-19) by 177 runs

There was promise of a contest when West Indies were restricted to 247, but all hope evaporated by the 17th over when Sunil Narine prompted a collapse that virtually guaranteed a Bangladesh defeat. 

Tamim Iqbal, playing his most composed knock in ten months, became the third wicket in the space of seven balls, and with that Bangladesh's chances were almost extinguished.

West Indies eventually won by 177 runs - their largest victory over Bangladesh, who were shot out for 70 - completing their first ODI series win since February 2013. They did enough with the bat, and then toyed with Bangladesh's patience with the ball.

Narine, so threatening but wicketless in the first ODI, waded into the Bangladesh batting line-up with three wickets. He set the alarm bells ringing when he removed captain Mushfiqur Rahim and Mahmudullah off consecutive balls in the 16th over.

Narine produced a delivery that bounced more than Mushfiqur anticipated and took the edge, and later bowled one that kept slightly low but went straight past Mahmudullah's bat to hit the off stump.

Tamim fell in the next over, unable to keep Roach's bounce down and gave Chris Gayle a simple catch at midwicket. From 57 for 3 it became 57 for 6. Narine then picked up his third wicket when Sohag Gazi gave deep square leg a straightforward catch.

Kieron Pollard took a one-handed catch at short midwicket when Nasir Hossain couldn't keep a half-hearted pull-shot down, making it 66 for 8.

The last wicket fell when Al-Amin Hossain was comically run-out, providing an apt finish to the shambles that is Bangladesh's batting this year.

The top order, barring Tamim, didn't put up much resistance either. Anamul Haque and Imrul Kayes gave it away early, and Shamsur Rahman is yet to show he can shine in his new No. 4 position.

Kemar Roach was among the wickets, finishing with 3 for 19, while Jason Holder had one wicket and Ravi Rampaul two. Holder bowled in a different role today, taking the new ball and attacking the Bangladesh openers, of whom he had four to bowl at. Rampaul was slightly unlucky at the start, but made it up with the wickets later on. Roach was steady, without pushing the speed gun too much, and he didn't need to.

When they were put in to bat, West Indies' innings was neither disintegrating nor taking off for a big score. It started off with Kirk Edwards continuing his struggle with deliveries slanting in to the stumps, as he was bowled by Al-Amin Hossain for a duck.

Chris Gayle and Darren Bravo then added 88 for the second wicket with the former dominating the partnership. Gayle got to his first ODI fifty in more than a year with plenty of fours and sixes as is his norm. He started off with a straight six off Mashrafe Mortaza and whenever the opportunity presented itself, in the form of a short ball or a full toss, he latched on confidently.

There was a dearth of singles, but he made it up with the big hits, with the emphasis on picking up sixes and not fours.

The likes of Darren Bravo, Lendl Simmons and Denesh Ramdin struggled to get a move on as the Bangladesh spinners bowled with a lot of control. Abdur Razzak was wicketless in his ten overs but he provided stability, with Mahmudullah and Sohag Gazi providing enough reason to believe it was a decent move to base their attack on spinners.

Bravo got to a fifty while Ramdin and Simmons failed to push on. The fourth-wicket stand between Ramdin and Simmons progressed at less than four an over at an important stage in the innings, but it hardly mattered in the end as Bangladesh's winless streak extended to 12.

Bangladesh's lack of fight with the bat has continued, and the phone number-like scorecard after Tamim's 37 will haunt the team for a long time, or at least till their next meltdown. 

Bangladesh innings		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	Tamim Iqbal	c Gayle b Roach	37	81	50	5	0	74.00
	16.1 84.7 mph, soft, soft dismissal there, Bangladesh have now lost Tamim and surely the match as well, this was a back of a length ball on leg stump, Tamim chips it off his thigh pad, straight to midwicket, bit of a leading edge there, that's their third wicket down in the previous six deliveries, no runs added, what did West Indies have for drinks? 57/6
	Anamul Haque	c †Ramdin b Holder	7	21	8	0	1	87.50
	4.2 83.2 mph, length delivery just outside off which tempts Anamul into going forward, as the ball hits the outside edge on the way to the keeper. What a response from Holder after that earlier six! Anamul is not satisfied however, and has gone for the review straightaway. Replays show that there was indeed a deviation upon going past the bat, with a slight sound there as well. The original decision is out, remember. After some careful deliberation, the on-field umpire confirms that the original decision stands, and Anamul has to go. It is a pity, as he would badly have wanted to build on his hundred from the previous match. 12/1
	Imrul Kayes	c Simmons b Rampaul	1	13	11	0	0	9.09
	7.3 83.2 mph, Kayes' struggle finally comes to a close as Rampaul is able to tempt him to go after a shortish length ball delivered on middle and off, with Kayes taking the bait, pulling him to the leg side, but not quite getting the control on it as it spoons high in the air and over to deep square leg, where Simmons takes a simple catch. He was looking to get going, but this is really not how you go about it. Bangladesh two down, and West Indies will be sniffing for another. 27/2
	Shamsur Rahman	b Roach	4	12	8	1	0	50.00
	9.6 82.8 mph, Roach strikes in his first over! fires in a short of a length ball outside off which has Shamsur going after it with a cut, but he ends up playing onto his wicket as he was a tad early in the shot. 42/3
	Mushfiqur Rahim*†	c †Ramdin b Narine	6	23	16	0	0	37.50
	15.2 57.5 mph, Narine has struck! the Bangladesh captain is undone by the extra bounce, Mushfiqur was looking to chop that one through the off side, not much turn on that delivery, but fizzes off the pitch and rears up, top edge through to the keeper, Denesh Ramdin knows how big a wicket that is, he's off on a celebratory run, Bangladesh in deep trouble now 57/4
	Mahmudullah	b Narine	0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	15.3 59.9 mph, bowled 'im! Narine on a hat-trick, he had no luck in the first ODI, today things falling his way, this one doesn't get up much, stays low, too low for the struggling Mahmudullah, who looks to defend that offspinner but the ball sneaks through to crash into the stumps, Bangladesh have lost half their team already, perhaps they can take heart from the Ramdin-Pollard show two days ago 57/5
	Nasir Hossain	c Pollard b Roach	6	21	13	0	0	46.15
	20.2 82.2 mph, another one, Nasir's lean spell continues, Roach is dropping plenty short in this spell, Nasir looks to help that away towards midwicket, hits it well enough to make it a touch catch for Pollard, who leaps high to pluck that one, last 32 balls, 10 runs, five wickets, a sorry spectacle for Bangladesh fans at home who are staying up past midnight 66/8
	Sohag Gazi	c Edwards b Narine	2	7	9	0	0	22.22
	17.5 61.3 mph, there's the wicket, Gazi decided the best way to deal with Narine is to go for his shots, he attempts a big sweep to a pitched-up ball, only connects well enough to pick out Kirk Edwards at deep square leg, Bangladesh seven down 60/7
	Mashrafe Mortaza	lbw b Rampaul	2	27	16	0	0	12.50
	24.2 84.0 mph, huge lbw appeal, after thinking over it the umpire raises the finger, West Indies were pleading with him before the decision came, Mshrafe has to go, he was hit on the back leg by an offcutter, hit on the thigh pad, was it too high? Mashrafe thinks so, the umpire doesn't, Bangladesh nine down, and another sorry outing for them is coming to a close 70/9
	Abdur Razzak	not out	0	18	14	0	0	0.00
	Al-Amin Hossain	run out (Simmons/†Ramdin)	0	2	2	0	0	0.00
	24.4 from Rampaul, it's all over, 57 for 3 to 70 all out, that is some collapse even by Bangladeshi standards, and it ends with a farcical run-out, a solid drive towards mid-on by Al-Amin, he thinks it has beaten Simmons at mid-on, but Simmons makes a diving stop, Al-Amin was midway down the pitch when he realised he has to turn back, plenty of time for Simmons to relay the ball to Ramdin, who finishes off the 177-run victory 70/10
	Extras	(w 5)	5
	Total	(all out; 24.4 overs)	70	(2.83 runs per over)