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Jerome Taylor bowls WI to a 98-run win in the
2nd ODI |
April 30, 2006 (Click to see the
Scorecard)
21-year-old fast bowler from Jamaica, Jerome
Taylor ripped through the Zimbabwean top order
to help West Indies win the 2nd ODI by 98 runs.
Jerome Taylor took the first three wickets at
the top in his three overs to reduce Zimbabwe to
a disastrous 11 for 3. The Zimbabwean Skipper,
Terrence Duffin was bowled a beautiful
inswinging yorker and Brendan Taylor was the
other batsman who got bowled too by an inswinger
from the same bowler. Piet Rinkie was the first
man to go for Zimbabwe playing across the line
and getting a leading edge. Zimbabwe could never
recover from this position of losing three
wickets and the rest of the batsmen just dragged
the match.
Once again Justice Chibhabha came up with a
fifty and he looks like the only Zinbabwean
batsman who is upto some standards at the
International level. Chibhabha went onto score
67 which is now his highest ODI score and
incidentally has also become his highest score
in his first class limited overs career as well.
The Mashonland teenager played exactly 100
deliveries and scored 8 hits to the fence.
Giving him company for a good time was another
talented bat - Elton Chigumbara. Chigumbara
scored just 13 but he helped Chibhabha to put on
56 runs to the 4th wicket to help Zimbabwe from
a real embarrassment of getting bowled out under
100. Zimbabweans eventually folded up to 144
with two major contributions from Justice
Chibhabha and Mr.Extras who batted well to score
21 runs. Chibhabha's end came through a forceful
shot on the frontfoot off an angled away
delivery from Ian Bradshaw.
 This
time, West Indies elected to bat first after
winning the toss and their batsmen were once
again out of sorts and in the end managed to put
up 242. Chris Gayle and Runako Morton put on a
70-runs stand for the opening wicket but they
failed in providing the momentum required to
launch a tall score. The Zimbabwean bowlers with
their nagging medium pace made strokeplay very
difficult and the West Indies batsmen were once
again forced to work hard for their runs.
Zimbabwean bowlers with their tight line and
length could restrict the homeside for 85 for 3
in about 22 overs. It was then the pair of the
two Guyanese Ramnaresh Sarwan and former skipper
Shiv Chanderpaul who batted together for almost
15 overs to take West Indies to 154 for 4 in the
38th over, where Sarwan was out trying to play a
big shot on the onside. Sarwan was out for a
well made 55 which came in 61 balls and his
innings also included 2 sixes, which he had
scored of the off spinner Prosper Utseya. Brian
Lara and Dwayne Bravo flopped and Chanderpaul
between these two partnerships scratched his way
in the middle. He soon found an able partner in
Dwayne Smith who smashed his way playing three
overs in total and getting 30 quick runs with
three hits out of the ground. Chanderpaul ended
his innings at 46 after playing 74 balls and he
just managed to squeeze in a couple of
boundaries.
For his 4-wicket haul, Jerome Taylor was
adjudged as the Man of the Match and the fast
bowler was also yesterday's Man of the Match.
Plenty of cricket left in this series with five
more ODIs to be played, West Indies look
cautious in not allowing Zimbabwe to cause an
upset or two.
Brief Scores :
West Indies 242 for 9
in 50 overs (Sarwan 55 Gayle 49
Chanderpaul 46 Dwayne Smith 30, Mupariwa 3/46
Justice Chibhabha 2/39) beat
Zimbabwe 144 in 46.2
overs (Justice Chibhabha 67 , Jerome
Taylor 4/24 Gayle 2/21)
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