India bowled out the West Indies for 181 to win the fourth and final cricket
one-dayer by 160 runs and clinch the series 3-1 here today.
The Indians rode on Tendulkar's unbeaten ton to amass an imposing
341 for three and then bundled out the Caribbeans for 181 with more than eight
overs to spare in what turned out to be a lopsided contest at the IPCL Ground
here.
It was Tendulkar's 41st one-day hundred in his 378th ODI.
He smashed his ton in 76 balls with the help of ten boundaries
and a massive six. The Mumbai batsman completed his hundred with a single off
the last ball of the innings, as he moved from 89 to the three-figure landmark
from the last five balls of the Indian innings.
The master blaster was declared ‘man of the match’
and ‘man of the series’. It is Tendulkar’s 53rd man of the match
award.
Skipper Rahul Dravid (78) and his predecessor Sourav
Ganguly (68) also came good to make it a sublime top order performance that
was backed by Mahendra Singh Dhoni with his trademark pyrotechnics, a
20-ball 40 not out that came as icing on the cake.
The West Indian chase was never on as Chris Gayle (6)
became Ajit Agarkar's victim, for the third time in the series, in the third
over of the innings.
Zaheer Khan accounted for the in-form Shivnarine Chanderpaul
(14) before Irfan Pathan marked his return to the team with the wicket of Devon
Smith (24).
The West Indies captain Brain Lara was felicitated by the Vadodara
Cricket Association as it was his last one-day in India.
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