Player of the Match
Player of the Match
1885dThe Report by Firdose Moonda

Narine, Pollard deliver winning start for West Indies

Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard, making their international comebacks, combined to give West Indies a four-wicket win against South Africa in the triangular series opener in Providence

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

KA Pollard
KA Pollard
67(67) 2x4 - 6x6
Control %82%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 24 runs
  • 0x4 - 3x6
3 1 1 2 9 13 35 3
RR Rossouw
RR Rossouw
61(83) 2x4 - 0x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 16 runs
  • 0x4 - 0x6
3 8 5 10 8 6 7 14

Best performances - Bowlers

SP Narine
SP Narine
O9.5
M0
R27
W6
Eco2.74
RHB
OFFLEG
1W2W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
AM Phangiso
AM Phangiso
O10
M1
R40
W3
Eco4.00
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W

Match Details

Toss

South Africa , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.00 start, First Session 13.00-16.30, Interval 16.30-17.15, Second Session 17.15-20.45

Match days

03 June 2016 - day/night match (50-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

West Indies 4, South Africa 0

Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

8.50pm Pollard and Holder exchange hugs. What a return for Narine and Pollard! Narine exploited the slow track and claimed career-best figures of 6 for 27. Ricky and Holder complemented him as WI dismissed SA for 188. Pollard teed off in the chase, his first three scoring shots being sixes over long-on. He then dropped anchor and marshalled the chase. The fans celebrate the hosts' winning start by dancing and jiving in the stands.

Presentation

AB de Villiers: We laid the foundation perfectly well and felt 220-plus would be difficult to chase. But we were short with the bat. We lost our way a bit towards the end. Unfortunately, that cost us at the end of the night. I was pretty happy with the balance of the team. The wicket was tough to bat on and Sunil Narine is one of the best bowlers in the world at the moment. It was slower than any other wickets I had batted on during the IPL. There are no excuses and we lost our way at the end. That's what cost us.

Jason Holder: Great to start the tournament with a win. I thought we summed up the conditions early and pulled it back. Credit should go to Sunil Narine the way he bowled. Polly played a quality innings. Pleasing as a captain and the guys were composed. Australia will be tough and these two teams are quality teams. Pollard backed himself and hit the ball over the top. Credit must go to him.

Narine, Man of the Match: It is good being back in West Indies colours and it is something I enjoy. It is a blessing to be back. Every game there is a bit of nerves. I don't think there is any secret and I just wanted to give 100%. 70-80% I have changed my action. Still getting accustomed to the action.

That is all we have for you. Thanks for tuning in. Goodbye and good night.

48.1
4
Duminy to Holder, FOUR, Holder seals the win for WI. He ventures down the track and loft-drives Duminy over the covers

JP comes back on

END OF OVER:
48 | 3 Runs | WI: 187/6 (2 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 3.89, RRR: 1.00)

  • Jason Holder6 (20b)
  • Kieron Pollard67 (67b)
  • Farhaan Behardien1-0-3-0
  • Kyle Abbott10-1-26-0
47.6
1
Behardien to Holder, 1 run, and again. He moves outside leg, FB chases him. Slapped to long-on
47.5
0
Behardien to Holder, no run, Holder backs away outside leg and the bowler follows him. Bunted to midwicket
47.4
1
Behardien to Pollard, 1 run, back of a length and outside off, punched to long-off
47.3
0
Behardien to Pollard, no run, short roller, slapped to midwicket
47.2
0
Behardien to Pollard, no run, back of a length on middle, punched to midwicket

Long time ago

1992

Last time South Africa got all out for a lower total than 188 against West Indies - 152 and 180 in April 1992.

West Indies' best

0

No. of 6-wkt hauls by West Indies spinners in ODIs, before Narine's 6/27 in this match. The previous best figures for a WI spinner were also by Narine - 5/27 v NZ, 2012.

Narine's best

5/27

Sunil Narine's previous best bowling figures in ODIs. He went one better, taking 6/27 in this match.

Applied brakes

42

Runs conceded by WI bowlers between 31st and 41st over of the innings. They also took 4 key wickets of de Villiers, Rossouw, Behardien and Duminy.

Rossouw vs West Indies

4

No. of scores of 50 or more for Rilee Rossouw against West Indies in ODIs, in 7 innings including today. Both his centuries have also come against them.

Got'em both cheaply

51

Runs scored by Amla (20) and de Villiers (31) combined in this match. Amla averaged 91.70 and de Villiers 76.18 against WI in ODIs before this match.

No early breakthrough

9

No. of ODIs where the openers failed to add 50+ runs against West Indies, before Amla-de Kock in this match. Last was 71 runs by Stirling-Porterfield in WC'15.

Opening milestone

3

No. of pairs who have opened in 50 or more ODIs for SA. This is the 50th time for Amla and de Kock. Other 2: Gibbs-Smith (74 matches) & Gibbs-Kirsten (66).

New format

3

No. of D/N ODIs played in West Indies, before this Tri-series since they started hosting ODIs in 1977. In this series, all the 10 matches will be played as Day/Night