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Article: Cricket: Drakes seals record-breaking West Indies win Australia 240 & 417 West Indies 240 & 418-7 West Indies win by 3 wickets
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2003
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WEST INDIES made the highest-ever fourth innings winning total to
beat Australia by three wickets in the fourth and final Test
yesterday to avoid an unprecedented home whitewash.
West Indies, set 418 to win and 3-0 down in the series, reached
the historic target with an unbeaten eighth-wicket partnership of 46
from lower order batsmen Omari Banks and Vasbert Drakes.
Drakes' winning hit set off wild celebrations when he cut a four
down to backward point off leg-spinner Stuart MacGill.
The triumph surpassed the previous record - India's 406 for 4 to
beat West Indies in Port of Spain in 1976 - and handed captain Brian
Lara his first success in his second stint as captain.
Drakes made 27 and ...