West Indies 'A' crush India 'A' to level series at 1-1

A runaball century by 25yearold Barbadian Jonathan Carter 133 132b 18x4 3x6 powered the West Indies lsquoArsquo to a deserving 55run win over a wayward India lsquoArsquo to level the threematch oneday series 11 at the Chinnaswamy Stadium here Tuesday Asked to bat first the visitors recovered from a poor start and with Carter playing the anchorrole to perfection made 2796 in their 50 overs In reply India A who had won the opening game Sunday paid the price for some indiscreet strokeplay to be all out for 224 with seamer Miguel Cummins claiming 429 25yearold Carter grabbed two for 33 in 64 overs with his rightarm seamup stuff Carter got the first and last wickets of the Indian innings in Robin Uthappa and Jaydev Unadkat Yuvraj topscored for the side with 40 but India 39A39 failed to chase down the target File Pic The India lsquoArsquo response to the challenging target was rather disappointing though opener Unmukt Chand 38 skipper Yuvraj Singh 40 and Kedar Jadhav 35 provided some hope However Yuvraj39s dismissal when he drove leftarm spinner Nikita Miller uppishly to be caught in the covers triggered the India A collapse As well as the Windies bowled the hosts contributed to their own downfall with some indiscreet shots and their innings never really gained any appreciable momentum especially after a poor start Yuvraj and Chand added 64 runs for the third wicket after opener Robin Uthappa 10 and Mandeep Singh 3 fell cheaply Once Chand departed after looking well set Yuvraj and Jadhav put on 32 for the fourth However a double strike by Miller who removed Yuvraj and Yusuf Pathan off consecutive deliveries effectively ended the game for India Yuvraj again topscored with 40 58 balls 3x4 1x6 but once he was dismissed by leftarm spinner Nikita Miller in the 28th over the writing was on the wall The India lsquoArsquo captain loosely lobbed a catch to his counterpart Kieran Powell standing in covers West Indies A then tightened their hold on the game by taking wickets at regular intervals to send the Indians hurtling to defeat while an entertaining lastwicket partnership between Shahbaz Nadeem 21 not out and Jaidev Unadkat 15 provided some flourish to an otherwise disappointing innings Earlier the West Indies A innings was all about Carter who played a typical Caribbeanstyle innings marked by conspicuous legside shots that had sufficient power and timing to breach the field Carter after surviving a chance when on six in a total of 562 displayed character to pull his side out of hot waters after Vinay Kumar had both openers Andre Fletcher 15 and Kieran Powell 4 caught behind by Naman Ojha in a spell of 10 deliveries Playing with understandable circumspection Kirk Edwards 36 and Carter added 79 runs for the third wicket before Edwards was foxed by Pathan39s offbreak to be stumped The experienced Andre Russell 12 flopped again as he lofted Pathan to Narwal and the visitors were tottering at 1124 by the 28th over Then came the crucial 131run association between Carter who was beginning to bat with some refreshing freedom and Leon Johnson 39 for the fifth wicket that provided some momentum to the West Indies A innings with 97 runs coming off the last 10 overs as the visitors eventually finished on 2796 India A made one change Shabhaz Nadeem coming in for Rahul Sharma while West Indies A included Leon Johnson Veerasammy Permaul and Carter Dropped catch cost India 39A39 dear Yuvraju00a0 India 39A39 skipper Yuvraj Singh summed up accurately when he pointed out that centurion Jonathan Carter39s dropped catch when he was on six besides poor batting contributed to the 55run defeat against West Indies A in the second of the three oneday games here Tuesday quotWe did not bowl well and Carter39s dropped catch was also a factor We should have restricted them to about 260 No one in our batting lineup got going We did not field well and if you want to win you need to bowl well tooquot said Yuvraj at the postmatch interaction with the media The skipper on a comeback trail and who piloted his team to victory in the opening game Sunday with a century admitted that the early loss of wickets put the team under pressure quotThe two early wickets put us under pressure They bowled in the right areas We did not get good partnerships and they did not let us score The ball was moving a bit but we did not get enough wickets If the guys do not get runs we will not win There should have been small partnerships and then we would have had a chancequot Yuvraj added West Indies A captain Kieran Powell attributed his team39s success to Carter39s century and also strengthening of the bowling department quotCarter played a massive role in our win particularly considering the situation we were in It was expected of him and he delivered We juggled the bowlers little bit and worked on the field settings and it worked outquot said Powell With the series tied at 11 the two teams face each other in the third and final game of the series Thursday at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium