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Thursday, July 31, 2025

Windies in battle to avoid series defeat

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EAST LON­DON–West In­dies, fac­ing a se­ries de­feat against South Africa, will at­tempt to strike back to keep their chances alive when both teams meet in the third of the five-match One-Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) se­ries at the Buf­fa­lo Park in East Lon­don to­day.

The West In­dies will have to raise their game if they are to stop the South Africans from seal­ing the se­ries with a win and two games in hand af­ter they won the first cou­ple of ODIs com­fort­ably.

The Windies bowl­ing at­tack is ex­pect­ed to par­tic­u­lar­ly tar­get the top three South Africa bats­men who have gar­nered most of their runs pro­tect­ing a vul­ner­a­ble mid­dle or­der from ex­po­sure.

South Africa lost five wick­ets for 34 runs be­tween the 40th and 48th over in the first ODI and still look shaky at Num­ber six and sev­en.

The pres­sure will be on se­nior mid­dle or­der bats­man Mar­lon Samuels, who has been crit­i­cized for throw­ing his wick­et away, to bat with more re­spon­si­bil­i­ty as the Caribbean side faces a se­ries de­feat.

The spot­light will al­so be on mav­er­ick open­er Chris Gayle who plun­dered the bowl­ing in the T20 se­ries but whose flag­ging form will be a con­cern.

Gayle has not scored an ODI cen­tu­ry in 14 match­es, dat­ing back to June 2013, and has on­ly man­aged one fifty in that time.

Lendl Sim­mons, who is part of the World Cup squad, is nurs­ing a fin­ger in­jury but could be slot­ted in­to the team in place of Leon John­son to bol­ster the bat­ting.

The on­ly oth­er change could be made is in the seam de­part­ment where Jerome Tay­lor may be giv­en a rest while Shel­don Cot­trell is giv­en a chance. Tay­lor has been ex­pen­sive, giv­ing away 145 runs in the last two match­es and claim­ing just three wick­ets.

Some com­men­ta­tors be­lieve con­di­tions are ide­al for West In­dies to bounce back.

East Lon­don's pitch is much slow­er than Jo­han­nes­burg and the ball is ex­pect­ed to be slow in com­ing on to the bat with very lit­tle as­sis­tance for the pac­ers.

Late evening rain is al­so fore­cast which may ham­per the sec­ond in­nings. (CMC)


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