Like some of the groundstaff’s work yesterday, the West Indies were again not good enough. They lost the second Digicel Pearls One-day International by seven wickets on the Duckworth/Lewis method to leave them one game away from defeat in this five-match series to world champions India.
An afternoon shower, hardly thunderous, caused 13 overs to be lopped off the Indian innings, principally because it took several minutes for the Queen’s Park Oval’s grounds crew to pull a water-sodden tarpaulin over the square. The effort was well short of the standards expected at international level. The Windies batsmen, too, again fell short of what was required to succeed.
Asked to bat first by Suresh Raina, they actually produced their best one-day total of the season thus far – 240 for nine. But on a surface a bit more accommodating to the batsmen than the one for the first ODI, it was still a score that would prove difficult to defend.
In the end, India needed to get a revised target of 183 in 37 overs. The stoppage caught them on 100 for one after 22. They got there with three overs and two balls to spare.
Full story in today’s DAILY NATION.
