Player of the Match
Player of the Match
2721dThe Report by Karthik Krishnaswamy

Samuels' 89* completes West Indies sweep

Marlon Samuels' highest score in T20Is, an unbeaten 66-ball 89, steered West Indies to whitewash-sealing seven-wicket win at Warner Park

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

MN Samuels
MN Samuels
89(66) 9x4 - 3x6
Control %78%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 21 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
5 4 7 2 8 18 15 30
Mohammad Nabi
Mohammad Nabi
38(30) 2x4 - 2x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
0 3 2 5 4 7 11 6

Best performances - Bowlers

KOK Williams
KOK Williams
O4
M0
R34
W3
Eco8.50
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
R Powell
R Powell
O3
M0
R20
W1
Eco6.66
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Afghanistan , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

West Indies won the 3-match series 3-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

19.30 start, First Session 19.30-20.55, Interval 20.55-21.15, Second Session 21.15-22.40

Match days

05 June 2017 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Commentator: Akshay Gopalakrishnan

West Indies were clinical with the ball all series, and today, they also displayed their batting might in response to a much-improved Afghanistan batting performance. But they were still too good for the visiting team. Afghanistan have shown what they can do in ODI cricket recently. If they can find that form again, it should make for a lot less lopsided one-day series. We have a couple of days' break before the teams meet in the first ODI. Of course, there is the Champions Trophy, where a real cracker takes place today with New Zealand locking horns with the hosts England. Hope to see you then. Until then, it's goodbye.

"Our team did not play well," says Afghanistan captain Asghar Stanikzai. "Our batsmen, especially, didn't take responsibility. But we are looking forward to the ODI series and hopefully we will do well. If we play a lot of matches against Full Member nations, hopefully we can do better. We learned a lot from the T20s and I would like to congratulate the West Indies team."

"We got three-nil. I don't think we bowled as well as we could have, we went away from the plan," says West Indies captain Carlos Brathwaite. "Marlon showed all his experience and all his class. If you lose against them, it's a cricket game, and at the end of the day, Afghanistan showed better fight with the bat and put up a good fight. Kudos to my team. Good teams have bad days, I don't want to call them a bad team. They have some very good days ahead of them. Three-nil against any team is good."

"I play any role that the team gives me. When wickets fell, I let the guys bat around me," says Samuels. A team asks me to play a role and I play a role. We've got lots of young, talented batsmen. Once they settle in, they can play all their shots."

Marlon Samuels is Man of the Match and Man of the series. No prices for guessing that.

10.35pm It may have gone to the last over, but it was a lot more straightforward than that, really. West Indies clearly the better team on the night. The reigning World Champions of the shortest format sweep the series 3-0. Afghanistan's batsmen attempted one million-dollar stroke too many and probably ended up making a lot lesser than they would have liked. They also employed strange tactics on the field, holding back Rashid Khan, their best bowler, till the 11th over. Marlon Samuels finishes with his best T20I score and it was a characteristic Samuels innings, consolidating for the early part and then unfurling his power. Afghanistan came into this series on the back of a 11-match winnings streak and have been dished out a harsh reality check. Presentations shortly.

19.2
1
Shapoor Zadran to Samuels, 1 run, sprayed on leg, tucked off the pads to backward square leg, and that's the game
19.1
1
Shapoor Zadran to Mohammed, 1 run, length ball outside off, opens the face of his bat to backward point and takes off for a really quick single

Shapoor to bowl the final over. He has one to defend

END OF OVER:
19 | 6 Runs | WI: 145/3 (2 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 7.63, RRR: 2.00)

  • Jason Mohammed22 (15b)
  • Marlon Samuels88 (65b)
  • Rashid Khan4-0-22-1
  • Karim Janat4-0-41-0
18.6
1
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 1 run, gets down for a slog sweep, does not find the middle of the bat and the ball goes rolling out to deep square leg
18.5
1
Rashid Khan to Samuels, 1 run, fuller ball on the stumps, drilled down to long-on for one
18.4
1
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 1 run, length ball, whipped away to midwicket
18.3
2
Rashid Khan to Mohammed, 2 runs, short googly, pulled between deep square leg and deep midwicket. Najibullah Zadran at deep midwicket runs to his right and the throw is really wide at the keeper's end, so they take the two rather comfortably

West Indies 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0CAK WaltonE Lewis
2nd61MN SamuelsE Lewis
3rd21MN SamuelsLMP Simmons
4th65MN SamuelsJN Mohammed