Player of the Match
Player of the Match

West Indies were clinical with the ball all series, and today, they also displayed their batting might in response to a much-improved Afghanistan batting performance. But they were still too good for the visiting team. Afghanistan have shown what they can do in ODI cricket recently. If they can find that form again, it should make for a lot less lopsided one-day series. We have a couple of days' break before the teams meet in the first ODI. Of course, there is the Champions Trophy, where a real cracker takes place today with New Zealand locking horns with the hosts England. Hope to see you then. Until then, it's goodbye.

"Our team did not play well," says Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai. "Our batsmen, especially, didn't take responsibility. But we are looking forward to the ODI series and hopefully we will do well. If we play a lot of matches against Full Member nations, hopefully we can do better. We learned a lot from the T20s and I would like to congratulate the West Indies team."

"We got three-nil. I don't think we bowled as well as we could have, we went away from the plan," says West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite. "Marlon showed all his experience and all his class. If you lose against them, it's a cricket game, and at the end of the day, Afghanistan showed better fight with the bat and put up a good fight. Kudos to my team. Good teams have bad days, I don't want to call them a bad team. They have some very good days ahead of them. Three-nil against any team is good."

"I play any role that the team gives me. When wickets fell, I let the guys bat around me," says Samuels. A team asks me to play a role and I play a role. We've got lots of young, talented batsmen. Once they settle in, they can play all their shots."

Marlon Samuels is Man of the Match and Man of the series. No prices for guessing that.

10.35pm It may have gone to the last over, but it was a lot more straightforward than that, really. West Indies clearly the better team on the night. The reigning World Champions of the shortest format sweep the series 3-0. Afghanistan's batsmen attempted one million-dollar stroke too many and probably ended up making a lot lesser than they would have liked. They also employed strange tactics on the field, holding back Rashid Khan, their best bowler, till the 11th over. Marlon Samuels finishes with his best T20I score and it was a characteristic Samuels innings, consolidating for the early part and then unfurling his power. Afghanistan came into this series on the back of a 11-match winnings streak and have been dished out a harsh reality check. Presentations shortly.

19.2
1
Shapoor Zadran to Samuels, 1 run, sprayed on leg, tucked off the pads to backward square leg, and that's the game
19.1
1
Shapoor Zadran to Mohammed, 1 run, length ball outside off, opens the face of his bat to backward point and takes off for a really quick single

Shapoor to bowl the final over. He has one to defend

END OF OVER:
19 | 6 Runs | WI: 145/3 (2 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.63, RRR: 2.00)

  • Jason Mohammed22 (15b)
  • Marlon Samuels88 (65b)
  • Rashid Khan4-0-22-1
  • Karim Janat4-0-41-0
18.6
1
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 1 run, gets down for a slog sweep, does not find the middle of the bat and the ball goes rolling out to deep square leg
18.5
1
Rashid Khan to Samuels, 1 run, fuller ball on the stumps, drilled down to long-on for one
18.4
1
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 1 run, length ball, whipped away to midwicket
18.3
2
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 2 runs, short googly, pulled between deep square leg and deep midwicket. Najibullah Zadran at deep midwicket runs to his right and the throw is really wide at the keeper's end, so they take the two rather comfortably
18.2
0
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, no run, fuller ball, pushed to covers
18.1
1
Rashid Khan to Samuels, 1 run, very full on middle and leg, clears the front leg and drags it down to deep midwicket

END OF OVER:
18 | 15 Runs | WI: 139/3 (8 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 7.72, RRR: 4.00)

  • Marlon Samuels86 (63b)
  • Jason Mohammed18 (11b)
  • Karim Janat4-0-41-0
  • Rashid Khan3-0-16-1
17.6
1
Karim Janat to Samuels, 1 run, goes hard looking for a big hit, gets an inside edge and moves on to his highest T20I score
17.5
6
Karim Janat to Samuels, SIX, and now Samuels' turn to benefit from errors in length. Too short and Samuels shovels a pull over deep midwicket. Ties his highest T20I score
17.4
1
Karim Janat to Mohammed, 1 run, fullish length, hammered to long-on
17.3
6
Karim Janat to Mohammed, SIX, that's terrible bowling. So full and giving the batsman all the room he is looking for. Samuels has already capitalised on these lines and lengths. Mohammed this time stays away from the ball and frees his arms to crash it over extra cover. Big hit
17.2
1
Karim Janat to Samuels, 1 run, full and outside off, drilled hard wide of long-on
17.1
0
Karim Janat to Samuels, no run, fullish length on the stumps, defended back

Rakhesh Hegde : "Its all done, now they can play Rashid safely and still win it, bad bad tactics"

END OF OVER:
17 | 4 Runs | WI: 124/3 (23 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 7.29, RRR: 7.66)

  • Jason Mohammed11 (9b)
  • Marlon Samuels78 (59b)
  • Rashid Khan3-0-16-1
  • Mohammad Nabi4-0-33-1
16.6
0
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, no run, wrong'un from Rashid, Mohammed does not pick it and inside-edges the defence to the pad
16.5
1
Rashid Khan to Samuels, 1 run, walks across early and dabs it to short third man. Sends Mohammed back who is halfway down. The fielder fumbles and instead of a run out they get an extra run
16.4
0
Rashid Khan to Samuels, no run, full on off, pushed back to the bowler

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0CAK WaltonE Lewis
2nd61MN SamuelsE Lewis
3rd21MN SamuelsLMP Simmons
4th65MN SamuelsJN Mohammed