Saturday, June 13, 2009 LONDON: West Indies beat defending champions India by seven wickets with eight balls to spare in their first day-night match of the Super Eights in the World Twenty20 here at Lord’s on Friday.Chasing a modest target of 154, West Indies achieved it in 18.4 overs with Dwayne Bravo remained not out on 66. He faced only 36 balls and smashed three sixes and four boundaries.Other main scorer was Lendl Simmons who made 44 from 37 balls with five fours.For India, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan and Pragyan Ojha got one wicket each.Earlier, Yuvraj Singh and Yusuf Pathan staged a late rally to help India post 153-7 in the allotted 20 overs.India, electing to bat on a slow wicket, had managed only 66 on the board by the 12th over for the loss of four wickets before Yuvraj and Yusuf put on 64 off 35 balls for the fifth wicket.Left-handed Yuvraj, who hit England's Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over in the inaugural T20 Worlds in South Africa two years ago, smashed a valuable 67 off 43 balls with six fours and two sixes.Yusuf, elder brother of team-mate Irfan Pathan, made 31 as India plundered 87 runs in the final eight overs, including 56 in the last five.Dwayne Bravo claimed four wickets, but at a cost of 38 runs from his four overs. Paceman Jerome Taylor went for 44 runs from his four.The West Indies took early charge by claiming three wickets by the fifth over with just 29 on the board.Fast bowler Fidel Edwards had Rohit Sharma top-edging a hook to Lendl Simmons at square-leg before focing Suresh Raina to give a low catch to wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin.Simmons then sprinted back from square-leg to remove Gautam Gambhir with a superb catch in Bravo's first over.When Bravo returned for his second over, the 12th of the innings, he claimed the wicket of Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni with his first delivery to make it 66-4.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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