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5/19/2004 
WINDIES GOING FOR SWEEP IN GRENADA  
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada (AFP): West Indies will be looking to bring out the figurative broom, when they face Bangladesh in the third and final one-day International cricket match on Wednesday here. West Indies unconvincingly won the past weekend's double-header at Kingstown - a fortress for West Indies in ODI cricket with only one loss in 15 matches - to clinch only their second ODI series triumph at home in the last nine competitions. Under the leadership of Ramnaresh Sarwan, deputising for the injured Brian Lara, West Indies won Saturday's opener by one wicket with 20 balls to spare and claimed Sunday's match by 23 runs. Both matches underscored the mediocrity of the two teams, but it was Bangladesh that came away with their reputations enhanced showing immense fighting qualities, particularly when they were in the field. The batting on both sides remains tenuous and will again be the area that the two teams will have to focus upon if they are to achieve their objectives for this match. West Indies made heavy weather of reaching a modest target of 145 in the opening match and they laboured to 124 for seven the next day in a match reduced to 25 overs-a-side. "We've been brilliant in fielding and bowling, but I am a bit concerned about the batting," Sarwan admitted. "We didn't bat as well as we wanted to for the past two matches. Hopefully, when the third match comes, we'll be able to bat better. We fell down in that department. "We have a young set of players. I'm sure that it is time for them to mature and, hopefully, they'll be able to do that as quickly as possible." The raw pace and hostility of opening bowlers Fidel Edwards and Tino Best proved too much for the visitors to handle, but they can take heart in knowing that West Indies were incapable of bowling them out in either match. Bangladesh captain Habibul Bashar stated that he was looking to avoid defeat in this final match because there are two Test matches still to follow. The visitors want to show that they have some character to prevent a steamrolling at Gros Islet and Kingston in the longer version of the game. West Indies have named an unchanged squad of 13 from which their final 11 will be selected, deciding not to press injured record-breaking batsman Lara back into service just yet. Squads: West Indies (from): Ramnaresh Sarwan (captain), Tino Best, Ian Bradshaw, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Fidel Edwards, Chris Gayle, Ridley Jacobs, Sylvester Joseph, Ricardo Powell, Ravi Rampaul, Devon Smith, Dwayne Smith. Bangladesh (from): Habibul Bashar (captain), Mohammad Ashraful, Tareq Aziz, Tapash Baisya, Faisal Hossain, Shahariar Hossain, Manjural Islam, Alok Kapali, Khaled Mahmud, Khaled Mashud, Mohammad Rafique, Mushfiqur Rahman, Abdur Razzak, Rajin Saleh, Hannan Sarkar. Umpires: David Shepherd, Billy Doctrove, TV Replays: Eddie Nicholls, Reserve: Glenroy Jones. Match Referee: Roshan Mahanama Reprinted from Caribbean Net News caribbeannetnews.com
 

 


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