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A change in scenery for the 3rd ODI earlier today, as the sides moved from Guyana to St Vincent - a move that also brought a change in conditions that seems to have knocked Zimbabwe's gameplan for six, at least for today, as the Zimbabwe Collapse™ took over from the Calypso Collapso as the main event of the day. Having won the toss, Prosper Utseya inexplicably decided to put the West Indies in to bat on a pitch that was expected to favour the side batting first. The plan was as before: use Zimbabwe's spin barrage to wrap up the Windies. Today, though, the Windies weren't playing ball - while Zimbabwe were able to keep the lid on the West Indies for most of their innings, even removing dangermen Gayle (33) and Chanderpaul (58) before they could do too much damage, the final ten overs of the Windies innings proved horribly expensive. At 40 overs, the home side were on 153/4; at the close, they'd added a massive 92 runs to reach 245/9 at the close. Zimbabwe were taking regular wickets throughout this period, but that didn't seem to bother the tail-enders, who laid into the bowling with abandon. On a pitch where 220 would have been a decent total, West Indies went beyond to give themselves a good safety margin.

Not that they needed it in the end, as the Zimbabwe Collapse™ kicked in to ruin Zimbabwe's chances. The 3rd-ball dismissal of Vusi Sibanda was the first warning, and while Hamilton Masakadza (35) and Brendan Taylor (19) when on to build a decent 2nd-wicket stand of 51, it was all downhill from there, with a steady stream of wickets - mostly inflicted by Darren Sammy (career-best figures of 4/26) and Kemar Roach (3/28) - seeing Zimbabwe fall to a very poor 104 all-out and in the process posting the lowest ODI score at Arnos Vale ("beating" Pakistan's previous record of 117). That gave the Windies a 2-1 lead in the series and a serious shot in the arm ahead of the next match on Friday, while for Zimbabwe it's back to the tactical drawing board - and hopefully into the nets for the batsmen, who once again have let the side down. Full scorecard below the cut.
West Indies 245/9 (50 overs; Chanderpaul 58, Chigumbura 2/43), Zimbabwe 104 (31.5 overs; Masakadza 35, Sammy 4/26). West Indies win by 141 runs.

West Indies innings (50 overs maximum)	
							R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
CH Gayle*	st †Taibu b Utseya			33	54	53	3	1	62.26
AB Barath	c Maruma b Utseya			35	93	67	2	0	52.23
S Chanderpaul	run out (Utseya)			58	95	76	2	1	76.31
D Ramdin†	c Utseya b Maruma			19	54	37	0	0	51.35
N Deonarine	c Chigumbura b Lamb			21	23	21	1	1	100.00
DJ Bravo	c Matsikenyeri b Chigumbura		24	32	24	1	0	100.00
KA Pollard	st †Taibu b Cremer			17	15	11	0	1	154.54
DJG Sammy	not out					7	17	5	1	0	140.00
R Rampaul	run out (Maruma/†Taibu/Chigumbura)	14	6	4	1	1	350.00
NO Miller	b Chigumbura				0	2	1	0	0	0.00
KAJ Roach	not out					2	2	1	0	0	200.00
	Extras	(lb 7, w 8)				15					
	Total	(9 wickets; 50 overs)			245	(4.90 runs per over)

Fall of wickets: 1-48 (Gayle, 15.3 ov), 2-86 (Barath, 25.2 ov), 3-151 (Ramdin, 38.5 ov), 
4-151 (Chanderpaul, 38.6 ov), 5-195 (Deonarine, 45.1 ov), 6-207 (Bravo, 46.6 ov), 
7-225 (Pollard, 48.4 ov), 8-242 (Rampaul, 49.3 ov), 9-243 (Miller, 49.5 ov)

Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ		
E Chigumbura	9	1	43	2	4.77	(3w)	
RW Price	10	1	42	0	4.20		
GA Lamb		10	0	44	1	4.40	(3w)	
P Utseya	10	0	47	2	4.70		
AG Cremer	7	0	43	1	6.14		
T Maruma	4	0	19	1	4.75	(1w)	


Zimbabwe innings (target: 246 runs from 50 overs)	
							R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
V Sibanda	b Roach					0	2	3	0	0	0.00
H Masakadza	c †Ramdin b Sammy			35	56	35	3	1	100.00
BRM Taylor	c & b Sammy				19	39	34	2	0	55.88
T Taibu†	c †Ramdin b Sammy			1	7	5	0	0	20.00
S Matsikenyeri	lbw b Bravo				0	2	1	0	0	0.00
GA Lamb		c Gayle b Roach				7	38	24	0	0	29.16
E Chigumbura	lbw b Roach				10	29	11	1	0	90.90
T Maruma	b Sammy					2	2	9	0	0	22.22
AG Cremer	c Miller b Bravo			6	30	21	0	0	28.57
P Utseya*	not out					13	44	35	0	0	37.14
RW Price	c Gayle b Miller			4	12	15	0	0	26.66
	Extras	(lb 1, w 4, nb 2)			7					
	Total	(all out; 31.5 overs)			104	(3.26 runs per over)

Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sibanda, 0.3 ov), 2-51 (Taylor, 9.6 ov), 3-57 (Taibu, 11.6 ov), 
4-58 (Matsikenyeri, 12.3 ov), 5-58 (Masakadza, 13.2 ov), 6-72 (Chigumbura, 16.3 ov), 
7-75 (Maruma, 19.3 ov), 8-80 (Lamb, 20.2 ov), 9-96 (Cremer, 28.1 ov), 10-104 (Price, 31.5 ov)

Bowling		O	M	R	W	Econ		
KAJ Roach	9	1	28	3	3.11	(2nb, 1w)	
R Rampaul	4	0	23	0	5.75	(1w)	
DJ Bravo	7	0	23	2	3.28	(2w)	
DJG Sammy	10	1	26	4	2.60		
NO Miller	1.5	0	3	1	1.63