India A v West Indies A - 2nd Unofficial One Day International 1991/2 - Match Report

India A v West Indies A - 2nd Unofficial One Day International 1991/2 - Bangalore

Pitch: 6B - Dry and slightly cracked - favours Fast and Fast Medium bowlers

Weather: 5 - Hot and sunny

Toss: India A

Mindful of the seaming conditions, India A strengthened their seam attack, then elected to bowl first upon winning the toss.
West Indies A lost Campbell second ball for a duck to continue an ordinary start for their openers in limited overs games on tour, the early wickets hampering them in nearly every game.
Holder came in and began another rescue job, as so often on this tour.
Samuels, probably not suited to limited overs cricket, took an age to settle and barely scored at 3 per over throughout his innings of 46 condemned play to tedium.
When he was finally out, Arthurton played brightly for a while, but when he was out for 30, and Holder 54, West Indies A folded for a dismal 170 all out of 48 overs.
Medium-fast seamer Venkatesh Prasad finished them off with 3 wickets in 2 overs to finish with 3-27, while Ganguly and Kapoor were hard to get away in the middle overs and reaped the rewards at the end.
India A were given a good start to their reply by Laxman and the promoted Mongia, but when they fell in quick succession, there was work to do at 69/2.
A sparkling unbeaten 74* from 61 balls by the Vinod Kambli in his first game in A colours on tour settled things quickly, despite the loss of Dravid for a rare failure with 17.
Gray and Allen tried hard for West Indies, but their attack once again failed to fire, and so far apart from Ottis Gibson's spectacular hitting in the 3rd Unofficial T20 International, it has been one way traffic.
India A take a 2-0 victory in the 5 match series with a 7 wicket victory, Man of the Match was Vinod Kambli for probably the most attractive 50 over batting of the tour so far.

India A won by 7 wickets

Man of the Match: V.G.Kambli

West Indies A 1st Innings 170/10 Closed (Overs 48)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs	Min	Bls	4s	6s
SL Campbell	lbw	b Chetan Sharma	0	2	2	0	0
RG Samuels	lbw	b SC Ganguly	46	124	96	4	0
DRE Joseph	c VVS Laxman	b Chetan Sharma	13	48	38	2	0
RIC Holder*	lbw	b SC Ganguly	54	105	79	5	0
KLT Arthurton		b AR Kapoor	30	45	39	5	0
S Chanderpaul	c RR Singh	b SC Ganguly	0	8	5	0	0
RD Jacobs+		b BKV Prasad	5	10	5	1	0
OD Gibson	lbw	b BKV Prasad	15	23	10	0	1
AC Cummins	c VG Kambli	b AR Kapoor	3	8	8	0	0
AH Gray		b BKV Prasad	3	4	4	0	0
IA Allen	not out		1	0	2	0	0
extras		(b0 lb0 w0 nb0)	0
TOTAL		10 wickets for	170

FOW
1-0(SL Campbell) 2-24(DRE Joseph) 3-90(RG Samuels) 4-134(RIC Holder)
5-142(S Chanderpaul) 6-144(KLT Arthurton) 7-158(RD Jacobs) 8-166(AC Cummins)
9-169(AH Gray) 10-170(OD Gibson)

Bowler	Overs	Maid	Runs	Wkts
Chetan Sharma	9	1	39	2
BKV Prasad	9	1	25	3
RR Singh	6	1	20	0
SC Ganguly	9	0	33	3
SB Joshi	6	0	27	0
AR Kapoor	9	0	26	2

India A 1st Innings 173/3 Closed (Overs 32.2)

Batsman	Fieldsman	Bowler	Runs	Min	Bls	4s	6s
VVS Laxman	c S Chanderpaul	b AH Gray	48	56	43	8	1
NR Mongia+	c RD Jacobs	b IA Allen	20	63	35	0	0
RS Dravid	c DRE Joseph	b AH Gray	17	45	29	3	0
VG Kambli	not out		74	78	61	10	1
SC Ganguly*	not out		13	40	27	2	0
Gursharan Singh	dnb
RR Singh	dnb
AR Kapoor	dnb
SB Joshi	dnb
Chetan Sharma	dnb
BKV Prasad	dnb
extras		(b0 lb0 w0 nb1)	1
TOTAL		3 wickets for	173

FOW
1-69(VVS Laxman) 2-69(NR Mongia) 3-107(RS Dravid)

Bowler	Overs	Maid	Runs	Wkts
AH Gray	8	0	44	2
OD Gibson	6	2	32	0
IA Allen	7	1	26	1
AC Cummins	6	0	40	0
KLT Arthurton	3	0	15	0
S Chanderpaul	2.2	0	16	0

Vinodh Kambli stroked his way to an unbeaten Man of the Match 74* in the 2nd Unofficial One Day International in Bangalore