Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Marlon Samuels hit unbeaten half centuries on Saturday to pilot West Indies to a seven-wicket victory over Sri Lanka in the rain-shortened second One-Day International at Queen’s Park Oval.
Chanderpaul struck 52 not out off 42 balls and shared an unbroken fourth-wicket stand of 107 with Samuels.
The West Indies, chasing a revised target of 125 off 25 overs, reached the mark with 4.3 overs to spare.
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Samuels returned to form with an undefeated 54 off 49 deliveries.
The pair rescued the home team from 18 for three in the sixth over as Nuwan Kulasekara (three for 28) sliced through the top order.
Sri Lanka had earlier limped to 112 for five off 30.3 overs either side of an hour-long rain delay. Upul Tharanga top scored with 40 off 81 balls but the visitors were stalled by the rain at 83 for two off 24.1 overs.
On resumption, Sri Lanka lost three quick wickets before heavy rain returned and caused a delay of almost four hours.
Captain Chris Gayle grabbed two cheap wickets as the home team seized the advantage before the second delay.
Earlier, openers Tharanga and Mahela Udawatte gave the visitors an encouraging start adding 38 for the first wicket before Jerome Taylor removed Udawatte fror 14. The left-hander skied a wild swing to backward point where Sewnarine Chattergoon held a fine catch running back.
Tharanga and Kumar Sangakkara were subdued in adding 40 for the second wicket but were separated just as the clouds first closed in.
Tharanga hit five boundaries before he slashed Dwayne Bravo to third man where Taylor collected the catch.
Light showers delayed play for an hour and, on resumption, the West Indies took control.
Kumar Sangakkara (28) scooped Gayle to short fine leg while Chamara Silva (2) was bowled.
In between, medium pacer Darren Sammy claimed Kaushalya Weeraratne (15).
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