Windies end losing run, thrash India by 103 runs

SPORT-IND
By Ashish Shukla
Antigua, Jun 14 (PTI) Leg-spinner Anthony Martin produced
a career-best four-wicket haul as a resolute West Indies
finally managed to end its losing streak against India by
notching up a massive 103-run win in the fourth one-dayer of
the ongoing five-match series here.
Down 0-3 in the series going into the match, the West
Indies' bowlers produced a clinical performance after Kieron
Pollard and Lendl Simmons laid the foundation with fluent
fifties to get their first win.
Sent into bat after Suresh Raina won the toss, Pollard
top-scored with a typically aggressive 70 off 72 balls while
opener Simmons notched up a fluent 67 off 78 deliveries, to
lift the hosts to 249 for eight, their highest total of the
series, after the Indian bowlers had them in a spot of bother
at 89 for four.
In reply, India crumbled in the face of some disciplined
work from the host bowlers, especially Martin (4/36) and Andre
Russell (3/16), who shared seven wickets between them to
bundle out the visitors for 146 in 39 overs.
The victory not only broke a sequence of three successive
defeats but also restored some pride for the hosts.
India made three changes to the squad bringing in
Ravichandran Ashwin, Manoj Tiwary and Ishant Sharma.
Tiwary, playing in place of Shikhar Dhawan, failed to
capitalise on the opportunity, edging Darren Sammy to Carlton
Baugh, but Parthiv Patel picked up a few useful boundaries to
set it up for India. PTI AS
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