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« on: March 05, 2007, 07:36:31 PM »
West Indies sealed a 21-run victory over Kenya after Marlon Samuels smashed a century in a World Cup warm-up match at the Trelawny Multi-Purpose Stadium in Jamaica. Samuels shrugged off recent allegations of passing vital team information to an Indian bookie on his side's last tour of the subcontinent to hit seven fours and two sixes before he retired on 100, as West Indies set Kenya 269 to win.
A handful of the Kenyan batsmen got starts, but no one was able to carry on and the visitors were restricted to 247 for 7. Collins Obuya struck an unbeaten 54 to top score for Kenya, Ravindu Shah supported with 41, the captain Steve Tikolo made 34 and Tanmay Mishra got 22.
Kenya suffered a setback in the third over when David Obuya was caught at first slip for 7 off Daren Powell, who also had Maurice Ouma caught in the same position for 9, leaving Kenya at 40 for 2. Corey Collymore then bowled Malhar Patel for 12 in the 15th over before he deceived Shah with a slower ball and had him caught at mid-on. Obuya put on 55 for the seventh wicket with Thomas Odoyo, who collected 24, to beef up the Kenyan total.
The Kenyans were unable to control West Indies' scoring, as Samuels exploded in the latter stages to boost West Indies to 268 for 6. After Shivnarine Chanderpaul was caught at second slip off Thomas Odoyo for zero in the third over, the left-handers Chris Gayle and Devon Smith added 58 to provide some momentum.
Gayle reached his half-century before trying to reverse-sweep and was bowled for 75 off 90 balls, which included nine fours and a six. Samuels emerged from an uncertain start and reached his century when he guided Lameck Onyango to third man for a single. He left for the dressing room immediately to give the teenager Kieron Pollard (14) a chance
Well Look thing - Samuels look like he in some form, Gayle as well, lets hope this continues Below is the score card!!!!
Played at Trelawny Stadium, Jamaica, on 5 March 2007 (50-over match)
Result West Indies won by 21 runs
West Indies innings (50 overs maximum) R
CH Gayle b Varaiya 75
S Chanderpaul c Tikolo b Odoyo 0
DS Smith c Ongondo b Bhudia 14
MN Samuels retired out 100
RR Sarwan c Suji b Varaiya 27
DR Smith not out 22
KA Pollard c Ouma b Odoyo 14
Extras (lb 4, w 12) 16
Total (6 wickets; 50 overs) 268
Did not bat BC Lara, IDR Bradshaw, CD Collymore, DB Powell, LMP Simmons, JE Taylor
Fall of wickets1-3 (Chanderpaul, 3.3 ov), 2-61 (DS Smith, 15.3 ov), 3-131 (Gayle, 30.5 ov), 4-179 (Sarwan, 40.3 ov), 5-246 (Samuels, 48.6 ov), 6-268 (Pollard, 49.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
TM Odoyo 6 1 26 2 4.33
PJ Ongondo 9 1 44 0 4.88
LN Onyango 10 1 64 0 6.40
R Bhudia 5 0 30 1 6.00
SO Tikolo 10 1 47 0 4.70
HA Varaiya 10 0 53 2 5.30
Kenya innings (target: 269 runs from 50 overs) R
MA Ouma c Gayle b Powell 9
DO Obuya c Gayle b Powell 7
RD Shah c Powell b Collymore 41
ML Patel b Collymore 12
SO Tikolo lbw b Pollard 34
T Mishra b Pollard 22
CO Obuya not out 54
TM Odoyo c Powell b Samuels 25
AO Suji not out 16
Extras (lb 9, w 15, nb 3) 27
Total (7 wickets; 50 overs) 247
Did not bat R Bhudia, PJ Ongondo, LN Onyango, HA Varaiya
Fall of wickets1-13 (DO Obuya, 2.4 ov), 2-40 (Ouma, 10.5 ov), 3-58 (Patel, 14.2 ov), 4-93 (Shah, 22.3 ov), 5-130 (Tikolo, 29.6 ov), 6-156 (Mishra, 34.5 ov), 7-211 (Odoyo, 45.1 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ
DB Powell 6 0 23 2 3.83
IDR Bradshaw 8 0 32 0 4.00
CD Collymore 8 0 42 2 5.25
JE Taylor 9 0 34 0 3.77
DR Smith 6 0 35 0 5.83
KA Pollard 8 0 56 2 7.00
MN Samuels 5 0 16 1 3.20
Toss West Indies, who chose to bat first
Umpires BF Bowden (New Zealand) and BG Jerling (South Africa)
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