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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Sammy rescues Windies in series opening thriller

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AUCK­LAND–Dar­ren Sam­my scored an un­beat­en 43 in 27 balls to lead West In­dies to a two-wick­et win over New Zealand in the first One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) here yes­ter­day.Sam­my res­cued the Windies who were reel­ing on 60 for four but re­cov­ered to reach 157 for eight af­ter the home­side were re­strict­ed to 156 in a low-scor­ing thriller at Eden Park.The St Lu­cian all-rounder held to­geth­er the low­er part of the West In­dies in­nings, bat­ter­ing three six­es and five fours to guide his team home af­ter Mitchell Mc­Cle­naghan had tak­en 5-58 for New Zealand.

Mc­Cle­naghan's swing and pace de­stroyed the West In­dies top or­der, while Ravi Ram­paul (2-27) and Ja­son Hold­er (2-21) re­duced New Zealand to 32 for four.The New Zealand top four could man­age on­ly 13 runs among them as Ram­paul and Hold­er bowled with a con­trol not seen in the West In­dies bowlers dur­ing the Test se­ries.New Zealand skip­per Bren­don Mc­Cul­lum top-scored for his team with 51, while broth­er Nathan Mc­Cul­lum made 47, help­ing add 52 for the last two wick­ets be­fore New Zealand's in­nings end­ed in the 43rd over.West In­dies cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo took 4-44, while his broth­er Dar­ren Bra­vo held three catch­es as the tourists dis­missed New Zealand in 41.2 overs af­ter win­ning the toss and bowl­ing.

Lendl Sim­mons, who scored 34, lift­ed the tourists from 60 for four to 95 for five and stitched a crit­i­cal 34-run stand with Nars­ingh De­onar­ine.Sam­my ar­rived at the wick­et with West In­dies need­ing 61 for vic­to­ry and added 25 runs with De­nesh Ramdin, who scored just 2.Ja­son Hold­er thwart­ed New Zealand's hopes in a stand of 26 runs with Sam­my that brought West In­dies to with­in ten runs of the tar­get.Sam­my, who was named man of the match, fin­ished the game with a six and a four in Mc­Cle­naghan's last over–the 28th of the in­nings.The win was Windies first on their New Zealand tour, as they at­tempt to bounce back from a two nil Test se­ries de­feat. (CMC)

SCORE­BOARD

New Zealand in­nings

M Gup­till lbw b Ram­paul 2

J Ry­der c DM Bra­vo b Ram­paul 0

K Williamson c �Ramdin b Hold­er 8

R Tay­lor run out (Hold­er) 3

B Mc­Cul­lum* lbw b DJ Bra­vo 51

Corey J An­der­son

c Sim­mons b DJ Bra­vo 13

L Ronchi� c Charles b Nar­ine 7

JDS Nee­sham

c DM Bra­vo b DJ Bra­vo 10

N Mc­Cul­lum

c DM Bra­vo b Hold­er 47

K Mills c Sam­my b DJ Bra­vo 3

M Mc­Cle­naghan not out 3

Ex­tras (lb 6, w 3) 9

To­tal

(all out; 42.1 overs; 199 mins) 156

Fall of wick­ets 1-2 (Ry­der), 2-3 (Gup­till), 3-10 (Tay­lor), 4-32 (Williamson), 5-57 (An­der­son), 6-66 (Ronchi), 7-93 (Nee­sham), 8-104 (BB Mc­Cul­lum), 9-112 (Mills), 10-156 (NL Mc­Cul­lum)

Bowl­ing: Hold­er 7.1-1-21-2, Ram­paul 9-0-27-2, Sam­my 6-0-30-0, Nar­ine 10-2-28-1, Bra­vo 10-0-44-4.

West In­dies in­nings

J Charles b Mc­Cle­naghan 9

K Pow­ell b Mc­Cle­naghan 4

DM Bra­vo

c Williamson b Mc­Cle­naghan 14

L Sim­mons c Tay­lor b Mills 34

DJ Bra­vo* lbw b Mc­Cle­naghan 12

N De­onar­ine b Mills 6

D Ramdin�

c BB Mc­Cul­lum b Mc­Cle­naghan 2

D Sam­my not out 43

J Hold­er c �Ronchi b Nee­sham 10

S Nar­ine not out 0

Ex­tras (lb 8, w 14, nb 1) 23

To­tal (8 wick­ets;

27.3 overs; 149 mins) 157

Did not bat: R Ram­paul

Fall of wick­ets 1-5 (Pow­ell), 2-19 (Charles), 3-32 (DM Bra­vo), 4-60 (DJ Bra­vo), 5-94 (Sim­mons), 6-96 (De­onar­ine), 7-121 (Ramdin), 8-147 (Hold­er)

Bowl­ing: Mills 8-1-37-2, Mc­Cle­naghan 9.3-0-58-5, Nee­sham 6-0-35-1, An­der­son 4-0-19-0

Toss: West In­dies, who chose to field

Se­ries: West In­dies lead the 5-match se­ries 1-0

Play­er of the match: DJG Sam­my (West In­dies)

Um­pires: GAV Bax­ter and REJ Mar­ti­nesz (Sri Lan­ka)

TV um­pire: IJ Gould (Eng­land)

Match ref­er­ee: BC Broad (Eng­land)

Re­serve um­pire: AL Hill


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