West Indies win five-match ODI finale - Cricket News Roundup – Part 1 – July 17, 2012
On Monday, hosts http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, won the final match of the five-match one-day series against New Zealand, after winning the match by 20 runs, at Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts.
Batting first, West Indies jabbed a decent total of 241 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 50 overs with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Russell-c915 smashing an innings of 59 runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754, failing to chase down the total, gave an impressive start to their run chase, but then lost their way in the middle and suffered a batting collapse at the end to prevent them their second win in the tournament.
From New Zealand, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KS-Williamson-c1813 was the highest scoring batsman with a knock of 69 runs to his name.
SP Narine was named as the Player of the Series and Match for his consistent performance in the tournament.
Pakistan and India will resume their bilateral cricketing ties in December with a short series of three ODIs and two Twenty20 matches.
The two Asian cricketing giants have not played each other in a bilateral series since the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai.
However, it has now been decided to resume ties and the two nations are expected to see each other’s cricket teams fighting it out by the end of this year.
Rajiv Shukla, a senior BCCI official talking on the matter said, “The BCCI was firm that no http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 team leaves after playing the Twenty20 Internationals."
Former Indian batting great, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755.
Gavaskar believes that Pakistan is not cooperating in the ongoing investigation regarding the terrorist attacks on the city of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mumbai-c820 in 2008 - an attack which India believes was sponsored by Pakistan.
"Being a Mumbaikar I feel what is the urgency when there is no co-operation from the other side," said Gavaskar.
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