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For the second time in four days, India and West Indies showed that big hits aren't crucial ingredients in absorbing cricket. As in the Mumbai Test, the final delivery of the match was punched to long-on, but this time there were no tears for the cheering home fans as last man Umesh Yadav's drive went for four to end a pulsating match.
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Deandra Dottin, the exciting West Indies player, has broken into the top 10 of the Reliance ICC Women's ODI Player Rankings for batters for the first time, following a career-best 95 against Pakistan in the final of the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifier 2011 (WWCQ) at Mirpur on Saturday.
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Credibility gap? What credibility gap?
Maybe with the Prime Minister and her lengthening entourage of disciples over this assassination plot thing, but certainly not with the senior men's West Indies cricket team and their uncanny ability to stretch the limits of credulity.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh – West Indies Women put in another superb allround performance to beat Pakistan Women by 120 runs and win the International Cricket Council’s Women’s Cricket World Cup 2013 qualification tournament on Saturday.
The Windies, who qualified for the World Cup earlier this week, demonstrated their strength in all departments and ended the event unbeaten with big wins in all six matches.
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The draw was the predicted result at the start of the final day in Wankhede. It was a draw alright, but instead of the widely expected borefest, the teams served up one of the most extraordinary days of Test cricket, with the game ending with the scores level for only the second time in Tests.
R Ashwin was the Man of the Match and Man of the Series, but wasn't the man of the moment for India when they needed two off the final delivery - he took a single, but bizarrely didn't set off immediately for the tight second that could have sealed the win, and the clean sweep for India. He was run out, ending an hour of almost unbearable tension that showcased Test cricket's slow-burn thrills. Fidel Edwards, a man renowned for securing nail-biting draws with the bat, had done the job with the ball in the final over this time.
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