- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR24.4 Strikes! Chris Gayle gets a wicket in his first over. It's an important one. Gambhir cuts straight into backward point's hands. The ball is wide and slightly short but Gambhir can't get his timing going. Samuels accepts a simple catch. Gambhir 144/138.1 Outstanding fielding by Dwayne Smith, and Ganguly falls short of his hundred by just 2. 219/336.5 A good full-length delivery. Tendulkar first shaped to sweep, then changed his mind but was too late in bringing his bat down. The ball raps his front leg on the full in front of off. Good decision by Billy Bowden 214/2Extras24 (b 5, lb 8, w 11)TOTAL338/3 (50 Overs, RR: 6.76)Fall of wickets: 1-144 (Gautam Gambhir, 24.4 ov), 2-214 (Sachin Tendulkar, 36.5 ov), 3-219 (Sourav Ganguly, 38.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB IDR Bradshaw 6 0 43 0 7.16 2 0 JE Taylor 10 0 71 0 7.1 3 0 MN Samuels 10 0 53 0 5.3 2 0 DBL Powell 5 0 32 0 6.4 1 0 CH Gayle 9 1 51 2 5.66 2 0 DJ Bravo 4 0 41 0 10.25 0 0 DR Smith 6 0 34 0 5.66 1 0
Player of the Match
Player of the Match
- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR12.1 Beauty! Lands on the leg stump line, Gayle is turned inside out as he shapes to work it to the on side, and gets a outside edge as the ball turns and Rahul Dravid pouches a low catch at first slip. Huge wicket! 80/116.2 Harbhajan nails another victim! Cleans up Morton! Drifts in on the middle stump line and straightens, Morton is beaten in the flight and by the straightening, tries to work to on side and is bowled. 102/233.1 bowled'm! good length delivery, pitched on and around the off stump line and this one shaped back in after hitting the deck. Samuels throws his bat at it but fails to make contact. 175/340.3 Tendulkar ends Lara's knock. Anticipating that Lara would come down the track, he fires is a seam-up delivery, full and outside off stump, Lara is beaten by the pace and the length as he tries to stab at it and Dhoni pulls off a smart stumping. That is a huge wicket and tilts the scale back towards India. 241/443.4 Gone! Zaheer takes out Bravo. Lands on a length, on the off and middle stump line, slants away, Bravo tries to cut it late, is cramped up a touch and nicks it to Dhoni 264/544.2 Crash! a yorker skids under the desperate wave of the bat and cleans up the furniture. India are at a touching distance from a victory here. 269/647.5 Ramdin falls trying to go for a six. Again banged in short, at the body, Ramdin pulls, doesn't time it well and Gambhir moves to his left from fine leg to hold on to the catch. 304/749.1 Sreesanth keeps his cool and gets a run out. Driven back to him, he makes the stop, meanwhile Bradshaw is half-way down the track. Sreesanth doesn't throw, he runs with the ball towards the non-strikers end and beats Bradshaw 319/8Extras18 (lb 8, nb 5, w 5)TOTAL324/8 (50 Overs, RR: 6.48)Did not bat: DBL PowellFall of wickets: 1-80 (Chris Gayle, 12.1 ov), 2-102 (Runako Morton, 16.2 ov), 3-175 (Marlon Samuels, 33.1 ov), 4-241 (Brian Lara, 40.3 ov), 5-264 (Dwayne Bravo, 43.4 ov), 6-269 (Dwayne Smith, 44.2 ov), 7-304 (Denesh Ramdin, 47.5 ov), 8-319 (Ian Bradshaw, 49.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Z Khan 10 2 48 2 4.8 0 1 S Sreesanth 10 0 79 1 7.9 2 4 AB Agarkar 10 1 75 1 7.5 0 0 Harbhajan Singh 10 0 60 2 6 1 0 SR Tendulkar 10 0 54 1 5.4 2 0
Match Details
Toss
West Indies , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Series result
India led the 4-match series 1-0
Match number
Season
Hours of play (local time)
09.00 start, First Session 09.00-12.30 Interval 12.30-13.15, Second Session 13.15-16.45
Match days
21 January 2007 (50-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
West Indies tour of India 2006-07 News
ICC's anti-corruption unit arrives in Nagpur
A four-member anti-corruption unit of the ICC arrived in Nagpur today to conduct a probe into the allegations of match-fixing involving Marlon Samuels and bookie Mukesh Kochar
Full coverage of the Marlon Samuels saga
Full coverage of the Marlon Samuels match-fixing allegations
Don't rush to judgment
This is a time to tread carefully, even if everyone is scrambling to be the first to break the latest news
Samuels in conversation with Kochar
Below is the transcript of the conversation between Marlon Samuels and Mukesh Kochar, an alleged bookie, taped by the Nagpur police before the India-West Indies mach at Nagpur on January 21
A question of faith
For the good of cricket, the Samuels case must be settled fast or the game will be hostage to cynicism




