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Friday, March 11, 2011

Pollard powers West Indies to easy win over Ireland

Devon Smith
(TOI)
MOHALI.
When Ireland managed to get the West Indian wickets at regular intervals on Friday, they must surely have nursed hopes of another upset and a possible place in the World Cup quarterfinals.
But they could not remove one man from the middle. Kieron Pollard made his bat do the talking in the third Powerplay as the Irish hopes started receding at the PCA stadium. Riding on the Devon Smith century that gave them a good start, and the explosive innings that Pollard played in the middle overs, the West Indies escaped a major embarrassment and scripted a 44-run win. Pollard changed the complexion of the game in the third Powerplay on the way to his 94 off 55 balls with eight fours and five sixes.
Devon Smith's workman like century (107;133b, 11x4, 1x6) was almost forgotten in the assault but it was that knock that laid the foundation for the Caribbean total of 275.
For Ireland, this was a bit too much. They began well but by the time the third Powerplay ended, Pollard and Smith had landed a telling blow to snatch the momentum away from them. Pollard was good in the field too as he came up with a spectacular low diving catch at long-off to shut the door on Kevin O' Brien and Ireland in the 40th over.
Irish captain William Porterfield and the team were fined for slow over-rate. The Irish team was involved in a protest against a decision by the umpire to rule Gary Wilson out.
The controversy erupted when Irish middle-order batsman Gary Wilson was adjudged lbw by on-field umpire Asoka de Silva and the decision was upheld by UDRS (TV umpire Bruce Oxenford). Wilson was given lbw off Darren Sammy, but the wicketkeeper-batsman argued with the umpire even after the UDRS was taken. Porterfield defended Wilson's defiance and the Ireland captain and team were fined 20% and 10 % of the match fee respectively.
"We are very disappointed with the decision. Technology is supposed to eradicate the mistakes and bad decisions but I am afraid today this was not the case. The giant screen clearly showed that the batsman was offering a shot and the ball was also hitting him outside the line. I wonder what prompted the on-field umpire and the third umpire to give that out," Porterfield wondered.
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score card
West Indies innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR
DS Smith b KJ O'Brien 107 194 133 11 1 80.45
S Chanderpaul c Porterfield b KJ O'Brien 35 102 62 3 0 56.45
DM Bravo b KJ O'Brien 0 2 3 0 0 0.00
RR Sarwan c Mooney b Dockrell 10 29 19 1 0 52.63
KA Pollard c Rankin b Mooney 94 83 55 8 5 170.90
DJG Sammy* c Dockrell b KJ O'Brien 4 1 3 1 0 133.33
DC Thomas† c †NJ O'Brien b Rankin 2 8 8 0 0 25.00
AD Russell b Mooney 3 15 7 0 0 42.85

NO Miller not out 5 9 6 0 0 83.33
SJ Benn run out (Botha/Mooney) 2 4 2 0 0 100.00
KAJ Roach c Stirling b Botha 1 1 2 0 0 50.00

Extras (b 3, lb 6, w 3) 12











Total (all out; 50 overs; 232 mins) 275 (5.50 runs per over)
Fall of wickets1-89 (Chanderpaul, 24.2 ov), 2-89 (Bravo, 24.5 ov), 3-130 (Sarwan, 31.6 ov), 4-218 (Smith, 42.3 ov), 5-222 (Sammy, 42.6 ov), 6-228 (Thomas, 44.6 ov), 7-267 (Pollard, 48.1 ov), 8-267 (Russell, 48.2 ov), 9-272 (Benn, 49.2 ov), 10-275 (Roach, 49.6 ov)










Bowling O M R W Econ

WB Rankin 10 1 35 1 3.50


AR Cusack 7 1 22 0 3.14

JF Mooney 9 0 58 2 6.44 (2w)
AC Botha 10 0 56 1 5.60

KJ O'Brien 9 0 71 4 7.88


PR Stirling 2 0 9 0 4.50

GH Dockrell 3 0 15 1 5.00 (1w)









Ireland innings (target: 276 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4s 6s SR
WTS Porterfield* c sub (R Rampaul) b Sammy 11 52 34 2 0 32.35
PR Stirling c Sammy b Benn 5 7 6 1 0 83.33
EC Joyce b Russell 84 150 106 9 0 79.24
NJ O'Brien† b Benn 25 38 31 2 0 80.64
GC Wilson lbw b Sammy 61 90 62 6 1 98.38
KJ O'Brien c Pollard b Sammy 5 10 9 0 0 55.55
AR Cusack st †Thomas b Benn 2 15 5 0 0 40.00
JF Mooney b Roach 6 18 7 1 0 85.71
AC Botha run out (Sammy) 0 3 7 0 0 0.00
GH Dockrell b Benn 19 22 19 3 0 100.00

WB Rankin not out 5 11 9 0 0 55.55

Extras (lb 4, w 3, nb 1) 8











Total (all out; 49 overs; 217 mins) 231 (4.71 runs per over)
Fall of wickets1-6 (Stirling, 1.4 ov), 2-42 (Porterfield, 11.6 ov), 3-86 (NJ O'Brien, 20.6 ov), 4-177 (Joyce, 37.3 ov), 5-187 (KJ O'Brien, 39.4 ov), 6-199 (Wilson, 41.4 ov), 7-199 (Cusack, 42.2 ov), 8-201 (Botha, 43.4 ov), 9-215 (Mooney, 45.5 ov), 10-231 (Dockrell, 48.6 ov)










Bowling O M R W Econ

KAJ Roach 8 0 34 1 4.25

SJ Benn 10 0 53 4 5.30 (2w)
DJG Sammy 10 3 31 3 3.10

AD Russell 10 2 37 1 3.70 (1nb)

KA Pollard 5 0 32 0 6.40 (1w)

NO Miller 6 0 40 0 6.66

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