West Indies collapse again, losing five for 20

So what's new? West Indies have collapsed yet again after competing well for 15 overs, losing five wickets for 20 runs in 10 overs after Lendl Simmons and Ramanresh Sarwan provided them a decent platform. It all began - at 65 for 1 in the 15th over - with a mix of ordinary running, good fielding and some misfortune, but didn't seem like stopping anytime soon. Amit Mishra kept tormenting the West Indies batsmen who seem like they won't be able to read his variations if he wrote them down on paper. There was everything, the small legbreak, the big legbreak, the straighter one, and the googly.

Amit Mishra had West Indies in a spin again

Simmons was once again the bright spot for West Indies. Even though they lost Kirk Edwards for nought to a good Munaf Patel outswinger, Simmons targeted the same bowler to get the innings underway, hitting him for a four and a six in the sixth over. Sarwan, too, made a positive start to depart from his ways of late, hitting Mishra's second delivery for a straight six.

Sarwan's running, though, remained slow, and was part of reason why the collapse started. Simmons played just wide of midwicket, called him for a single, but Sarwan was slow to leave the crease. Suresh Raina was quick in returning a one-handed throw by the stumps, and as Sarwan - struggling to make it - slid his bat in, the bat stuck in the pitch. All over. Even if the bat had not stuck, Sarwan would have struggled to make it.

After that it was all Mishra. Marlon Samuels' wicket was a piece of smart bowling. Operating on a middle and leg line, Mishra bowled legbreaks with a crossed seam. The balls turned, but not big, and Samuels defended them. And then came the orthodox big legbreak, dipping at Samuels, luring him out of the crease, and then ripping across, beating the bat. Stumped.

Debutant Danza Hyatt, in because Dwayne Bravo wanted to be rested having played four ODIs and seven IPL games since the start of May, had no clue which way Mishra was turning. Even then the swipe to a googly that bowled him was ugly. The big blow, though, came when another big legbreak kissed Simmons' glove to deny him a sixth half-century in last seven innings. That capped a spell of three wickets for one run for Mishra.

Harbhajan, who had supported Mishra well with five overs for just 11, removed Kieron Pollard in the 25th over, but it wasn't clear if the edge had hit Parthiv Patel's pad as he fumbled the chance before catching it.