Swashbuckling opener Virender Sehwag on Thursday created history by scoring the highest-ever ODI score of 219 as a merciless India clinched the ODI series against West Indies with a convincing 153-run win in the fourth cricket one-dayer to take an unassailable 3-1 lead.The hosts then dismissed the West Indians for 265 in 49.2 overs to wrap up the five-match series in style, rendering the fifth match in Chennai on Sunday, inconsequential. Debutant spinner Rahul Sharma was the pick of the Indian bowlers with three for 43.Weighed down by the mammoth total, the inexperienced West Indies batting line-up were never in the running to successfully chase down the total. Save wicketkeeper-batsman Denesh Ramdin, who took advantage of an attacking field to score a run-a-ball 96, the other West Indies batsmen didn't put up any resistance. In fact the last wicket pair of Ramdin and Sunil Narine (27, 33 balls, 3×4, 1×6) added 64 runs in only 10.3 overs to reduce the margin of victory.Top-order batsmen Lendl Simmons (36), Marlon Samuels (33) and all-rounder Andre Russell (29) got the starts but could not translate them into big knocks. Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja (3/34), debutant Sharma and part-time offie Raina (2/17) and Ravichandran Ashwin (1/59) accounted for nine among the 10 wickets.
News On AIR | December 8, 2011 10:19 PM
India beat WI by 153 runs, clinch ODI series<br/>