http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Rohit-Sharma-c80557 steals the series
Rohit Sharma sealed the fate of the ODI series in favour of India by producing a magnificent unbeaten knock of 86 runs in the 3rd ODI against West Indies on June 11, 2011, at the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 won the third ODI by three wickets and has clinched the five match series by 3-0.
Earlier India won the toss and opted to field first. They made an early breakthrough by grabbing the first wicket without a score on the board.
The opener http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ramnaresh-Ronnie-Sarwan-c83880, and the pair produced a partnership of 65 runs before the latter had to go after scoring 28.
The Windies slumped then onwards and lost seven wickets at the total of 96 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andre-Dwayne-Russell-c44235 came to the rescue and played an unbelievable, unbeaten knock of 92 off 64 balls, with the help of five sixes and eight fours.
Thanks to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Russell-c87177’s contribution, West indies managed 225 runs for the loss of eight wickets in their allotted 50 overs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/A-Mishra-c871 were the top wicket takers for India with three wickets each and Harbhajan Singh claimed one wicket.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/V-Kohli-c2737 on the next ball, trapping him leg before wicket
for naught.
The third wicket partnership between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Subramaniam-Badrinath-c91587 added 34 runs.
Badrinath was run out at 11 runs and the third wicket fell on 60 when Sharma came to the crease.
Wickets kept on tumbling while Sharma secured one end, Patel departed after scoring 46 runs, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yusuf-Khan-Pathan-c98357 contributed just one run.
India was in dire trouble and had lost six wickets for 92 runs when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harbhajan-Singh-c61453 joined in with Sharma. The pair stopped the onslaught of the Caribbean attack and started consolidating the innings.
The duo played sensible cricket and later changed gears as per the demand of the game.
They gave a match winning partnership of 88 runs for the seventh wicket before Harbhajan went back to the pavilion after contributing 41 valuable runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/P-Kumar-c2143 was the next batsman in to support Sharma, who kept on scoring at the other end.
The pair chased the total, scoring 228 runs in 46.2 overs. Sharma scored an unbeaten 86 off 91 balls, aided with two sixes and five fours while Kumar played a brisk inning and remained not out at 25 off 15.
Sammy and Devendra Bishoo grabbed two wickets each for the Windies while Russell and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KA-Pollard-c1754 shared one wicket each.
The Blue Shirts won the match convincingly by three wickets as once again their http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Young-c98322 team delivered the required results.
West Indies are down 3-0 in the series and will have to produce some positive performances in the remaining two matches.
The fourth ODI will be played on June 13 at the same venue and the Windies will need to regroup their talent.
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