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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Ramdin, Darren Bravo plunder Tigers

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De­nesh Ramdin and Dar­ren Bra­vo scored cen­turies in the fi­nal ODI to put West In­dies in a strong po­si­tion to sweep Bangladesh in the three-match Dha­ka Bank Cup se­ries which end­ed at Warn­er Park in St Kitts, last night.

Ramdin con­tin­ued his im­pres­sive form with a bel­liger­ent 169 while Bra­vo made 124, as the West In­dies plun­dered a mas­sive 339-7 in their 50 overs.

Up to press time, the vis­i­tors, who have al­ready lost the se­ries 2-0, were re­ply­ing.

A num­ber of records tum­bled dur­ing the in­nings and when Ramdin fi­nal­ly left for 169, he had equalled Bri­an Lara's score off 169 scored against Sri Lan­ka at Shar­jah. On­ly Sir Viv Richards' 189 not out against Eng­land and his 181 against Sri Lan­ka were left stand­ing. Ramdin faced 121 balls and struck 11 six­es and eight fours.

Dwayne Bra­vo's de­ci­sion to take first strike on a very good bat­ting strip ap­peared to have back­fired af­ter both open­ers, Lendl Sim­mons and Chris Gayle, fell with­in the first five overs.

Sim­mons (6) start­ed with a bound­ary off the first over but mis­qued a pull off Mashrafe Mor­taza. Gayle (6) played the straight­est of straight dri­ves off Al-Amin Hos­sain, then edged the same bowler for wick­et­keep­er Mush­fiqur Rahim to com­plete the catch and leave the host 12-2.

Ramdin joined his T&T coun­try­man Bra­vo and af­ter get­ting through an ini­tial rough pe­ri­od, the pair blos­somed, with the left/right hand com­bi­na­tion seem­ing to up­set the Bangladesh bowlers.

Ramdin was first to his half cen­tu­ry off 45 balls with three fours and three six­es. Bra­vo, who took a while longer ar­rived at his off 68 balls with four fours and three six­es.

Af­ter get­ting to their re­spec­tive mile­stones, the two plun­dered the bowl­ing, much to the de­light of the small crowd at the pic­turesque venue.

They brought up their cen­tu­ry stand and then mo­tored past the third wick­et part­ner­ship record for West In­dies against Bangladesh, which stood at 146, which was post­ed by Ramnaresh Sar­wan and Mar­lon Samuels in 2002.

Next, the pair erased Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke's high­est third wick­et part­ner­ship of 160 runs at the venue. The Aus­tralians com­piled that score against South Africa at the In­ter­na­tion­al Crick­et Coun­cil (ICC) World Cup in 2007.

The pun­ish­ment con­tin­ued and the pair were look­ing for the next record which was the high­est ever third wick­et part­ner­ship for the West In­dies in lim­it­ed overs crick­et. That mark stood at 195 un­beat­en be­tween Bar­ba­di­an Gor­don Greenidge and Trinida­di­an Lar­ry Gomes at Worces­ter against Zim­bab­we in the 1983 World Cup.

Beau­ti­ful stroke play was the or­der of the day. Ramdin, with just two runs need­ed for his cen­tu­ry, dabbed Mor­taza but the ball fell inch­es short of Rahim be­hind the stumps.

Soon af­ter, he got his sec­ond ODI hun­dred off 90 balls with six fours and five six­es. He cel­e­brat­ed with three six­es off the next three balls.

In be­tween Ramdin and Bra­vo rais­ing their bats, there was still an­oth­er mile­stone to be cel­e­brat­ed–the high­est to­tal for any wick­et for the West In­dies over­all. They passed Shiv­nar­ine Chan­der­paul and Carl Hoop­er's ef­fort of 226 against South Africa at East Lon­don in 1999.

Bra­vo then brought up his sec­ond ODI cen­tu­ry off 112 balls with sev­en fours and six six­es. He and Ramdin added 258 runs be­fore Bra­vo fell for 124.

Ke­iron Pol­lard came and went for 10 but Ramdin con­tin­ued to ham­mer the Bangladeshis.

The La Ro­maine res­i­dent reached 150 off 107 de­liv­er­ies with ten six­es and eight fours.

Ramdin's Records

West In­dies wick­et-keep­er De­nesh Ramdin made a record 169 off 121 balls with eight fours and 11 six­es.

It was the high­est score by a West In­di­an wick­et-keep­er.

It was his sec­ond ODI cen­tu­ry and sec­ond in four match­es–sur­pass­ing his 128 against Eng­land in March.

It was the high­est score for West In­dies against Bangladesh–sur­pass­ing 126 by Mar­lon Samuels in 2012.

It was equal third high­est score of all-time by a West In­di­an–Bri­an Lara 169 vs Sri Lan­ka in 1995.

Ramdin and Dar­ren Bra­vo (128) added 258 for the third wick­et–a West In­dies all-time record for any wick­et.

Score­card

West In­dies vs Bangladesh

WI inns

L Sim­mons c Mah­mudul­lah

b Mor­taza 6

C Gayle c Rahim b Al-Amin 6

DM Bra­vo c Kayes

b Mah­mudul­lah 124

D Ramdin c Hos­sain b Al-Amin 169

K Pol­lard c Iqbal b Raz­zak 10

D Sam­my c Raz­zak b Al-Amin 10

DJ Bra­vo not out 3

J Hold­er c Hos­sain b Al-Amin 0

S Nar­ine not out 0

Ex­tras (lb4, w6) 10

To­tal 7 wk­ts (50ovs) 338

Fall of wk­ts: 7, 12, 270, 302, 320, 338, 338.

Bowl­ing: S Gazi 9-0-63-0, M Mor­taza 10-0-69-1, Al Amin 10-1-59-4 (1w),

A Raz­zak 10-0-76-1 (4w), Mah­mudul­lah 10-1-48-1 (1w), M Haque 1-0-19-0.


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