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Windies snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

In an unbelievable turn of events, Shivnarine Chanderpaul made the impossible, possible by helping West Indies to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat and steer them to a one-wicket victory.

The first Digicel one-day international was nicely poised for a Sri Lanka victory when the last pair of Chanderpaul and Fidel Edwards had to make 13 runs in the final six balls.

This is how they went: After making three runs in four balls, facing was Chanderpaul with Chamida Vaas the bowler.

Two balls and 10 needed. Chanderpaul drove the fifth ball for four past mid off and then when the spectators were on the edge of their seats, many of them probably missing a few heartbeats, the unbelievable happened.

A deep set field and Vaas ran up and delivered, what he meant was a yorker. But Chanderpaul used his tremendous experience to turn it into a full toss and send it searing over mid wicket for six and all hell break loose.

In the words of that Jim Reeves perennial - Memories are made of this. Chanderpaul who was instrumental in taking the Windies to victory in the Second Test with Ronnie Sarwan was unbeaten on 62 with 5 fours and a six in 105 balls. That he did not get the man of the match award was a travesty of justice.

It went Dwaynne Bravo who took 4 for 32 and made a breezy 36 in 37 balls with 4 fours and a six. It was his best figures in the one-day game.

In reply to Sri Lanka’s 235 in 50 overs, the West Indies made 236 for 9 in 50 overs.

Chris Gayle the home team skipper won the toss and asked the Lankans in, in conditions that were overcast and ideal for seam and swing bowling.

Fastmen Fidel Edwards, Jerome Taylor and Dwaynne Bravo had the Lankans tottering at 49 for 5 and it looked as the game would end early.

It was then that Chamara Silva and Chamara Kapugedara joined forces to star in a record stand of 159 for the sixth wicket and put the Lankans back into the game.

It was an intelligently constructed stand, with Kapugedera unfortunate to miss out on what would have been his first three figure score in one-day internationals. He hooked, drove and pulled with superb timing and his three sixes were shots to behold. He also hit 7 fours in his 95 that came of 117 balls.

Silva again played sensibly to make 67 with 7 fours in 96 balls. Their stand of 159 came in 189 balls.

The rescue act by Silva and Kapugedera came after Mahela Udawatte went for a duck unable to bring his bat down on a toe crushing yorker from Edwards. He was making his international debut.

Then Kumar Sangakkara went for 23, Upul Tharanga for 10, Mahela Jayawardena for one and Tillekeratne Dilshan for 2 and the Lankans were 5 for 49.

When the Windies replied they were given a sound start by Gayle 52 and Smith who put on 53 for the first wicket. Then when wickets kept falling all around him, Chanderpaul kept his head and cool to steer the Windies to one of the most exciting and heart stopping victories.

When the Lankans bowled it was amazing to watch the other debutante Ajantha Mendis bowl.

He was mixing his repertoire of thwackers very cleverly which had all of the batsmen confused, unable to read which way he was going. Critics here were coupling him with mystery spinners of an era gone by in Sonny Ramadin and Jhonny Gleeson.

His figures of 3 for 39 in 10 was great reward. He has a bright future and it is hoped that he would be given continuity.

Nuwan Kulasekera too bowled well within himself to return figures of 3 for 43. It was just one of those things that victory eluded the Lankans. One hopes that they would not press the panic button, but play the same team in the Second one-day international also at the same venue today.

SCORECARD
SRI LANKA
U. Tharanga b Bravo				10
M. Udawatte b Edwards				00
K. Sangakkara c Bravo b Taylor			23
M. Jayawardene c Chanderpaul b Bravo		01
C. Silva c Gayle b Bravo			67
T. Dilshan c Browne b Bravo			02
C. Kapugedera lbw b Edwards 			95
C. Vaas not out					10
N. Kulasekera not out 				01
EXTRAS (lb16, w10)				26
TOTAL (7 wkts)					235
Overs: 50
DID NOT BAT: A. Mendis, I. Amerasinghe
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-2 (Udawatte, 1.3 overs); 2-38 (Sangakkara, 9.1); 
3-40 (Tharanga, 10.4); 4-41 (Jayawardene, 12.3); 5-49 (Dilshan, 14.5); 
6-208 (Silva, 46.2); 7-234 (Kapugedera, 49.5).
BOWLING: Taylor 10-1-39-1; Edwards 10-0-57-2 (w8); Bravo 10-1-33-4 (w1); 
Sammy 10-1-38-0 (w1); Benn 9-0-46-0; Gayle 1-0-6-0.
   
WEST INDIES
C. Gayle lbw b Mendis 				52
D.S. Smith lbw b Kulasekera			14
R. Sarwan c wkpr Sangakkara  b Kulasekera	35
M. Samuels lbw b Kulasekera			00
S. Chanderpaul not out 				62
D. Bravo run out (Jayawardene)			36
P. Browne c Mendis b Dilshan			15
D. Sammy b Mendis 				01
J. Taylor c Silva b Mendis			09
F. Edwards not out				02
EXTRAS (lb1, w9)				10
TOTAL (9 wkts)					236
Overs: 50
FALL OF WICKETS: 1-53 (Smith, 13.3 overs); 2-109 (Gayle, 26.6); 
3-109 (Sarwan, 27.3); 4-110 (Samuels, 27.6); 5-169 (Bravo, 38.1); 
6-201 (Browne, 44.4); 7-203 (Sammy, 45.4); 8-219 (Taylor, 47.6); 
9-219 (Benn, 48.5). 
BOWLING: Vaas 10-4-30-0; Kulasekera 10-0-43-3; Amerasinghe 7-0-56-0; 
Mendis 10-1-39-3; Kapugedera 7-0-41-0; Dilshan 6-0-26-1.

Series: West Indies lead three-match series 1-0.
Man-of-the-Match: Dwayne Bravo (West Indies).

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