Watch the highlights of West Indies vs Sri Lanka - The 6th match of the 1995-96 Benson & Hedges World Series triangular cricket tournament between West Indies and Sri Lanka played at the Bellerive Oval, Hobart on January 03, 1996.
Match Overview:
Shivnarine Chanderpaul's classy 77 and Ottis Gibson's maiden five-wicket haul gives West Indies finally break their duck with a 70-run victory over Sri Lanka in the sixth match of a Benson and Hedges World Series.
Match Stats:
- Ottis Gibson became the third West Indies bowler to take a five-wicket haul against Sri Lanka in ODIs after Courtney Walsh and Winston Benjamin.
- Ottis Gibson's 5 for 42 was his best bowling performance for West Indies in one-day international and the third best-bowling-figures by an West Indies bowler against Sri Lanka in ODIs.
In-Depth Match Highlights:
It was West Indies' first win in five matches since the one-day international series began last month final of the Singer Champions Trophy.
West Indies bowled out for 194 in 48.2 overs with top scorer by Shivnarine Chanderpaul cracked a 77 off 117-balls, Sherwin Campbell struck 38 off 76-balls including 3-fours.
Carl Hooper hit 36 off 33-balls including 2-fours and Richie Richardson scored 18 off 25-balls without a boundary.
Sri Lanka best bowler by Chaminda Vaas picked up 3-wickets for 21-runs in 9-overs including two maidens with economy rate of 2.33, Muttiah Muralitharan, Chandika Hathurusinghe both took 2-wickets and one for Manjula Munasinghe - Kumar Dharmasena.
Sri Lanka bundled out for 124 in 37.4 overs with top scorer by Asanka Gurusinha cracked a 48 off 83-balls - who fell two-run short of his half-century - including 3-fours.
Kumar Dharmasena hit 12 off 17-balls including a boundary, Chaminda Vaas and Roshan Mahanama each scored 10-runs.
West Indies best bowler by Ottis Gibson claimed a career-best 5-wicket haul for 42-runs in 8.4-overs, Roger Harper, Courtney Walsh and Ian Bishop each took one-wickets.
Shivnarine Chanderpaul named Player of the match for his classy 77 off facing 117-balls including four boundaries.
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