Caribbean Glory: West Indies win series

Kingston, May 22: India's overseas woes continued as West Indies crushed them by 155 runs to win the fifth Test and the series 2-1 at Sabina Park on Wednesday.

India, chasing 408 for victory, resumed on 237 for seven on the final day but were bowled out for 252 just 35 minutes into the morning session.

They have not won a Test series outside south Asia since defeating England over 16 years ago and last won a series in the Caribbean in 1970-71.

It was the first series win for West Indies since winning in Zimbabwe last year. They had lost 3-0 in Sri Lanka and 3-0 to Pakistan in Sharjah following that.

Wicketkeeper Ajay Ratra departed for 19 in the day's third over, adjudged lbw for 19 by umpire Russell Tiffin off paceman Cameron Cuffy.

But television replays suggested it might have been Tiffin's third suspect decision of the innings as the ball seemed to be missing leg stump.

Ratra had scored his maiden century in the drawn fourth Test in Antigua last week.

Javagal Srinath drove Cuffy for a straight boundary but was bowled by a delivery that jagged back from outside off-stump to uproot his middle stump.

Khan was the last man to go, miscuing Mervyn Dillon high over cover, where Pedro Collins gleefully held on to a well-judged skier as West Indies embraced victory.

They celebrated by uprooting the stumps and hugging each other in the middle of the pitch as fans jumped over fences and stormed the field.

The side, led by captain Carl Hooper, then took a victory lap around the stadium to rapturous applause from the few thousand people gathered in the stadium.

Opener Wavell Hinds, who had scored 113 in the first innings as West Indies piled up 422 after being sent in to bat by Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, was named man-of-the-match.

India had scored only 212 in reply before bowling out West Indies for 197 in their second innings.

The visitors would have set a new world record if they had managed to get 408, beating their own mark of 406 for four set while chasing 403 against West Indies in Port of Spain in 1975-76.

Guyanese left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named man-of-the-series for his aggregate 562 runs at an astonishing average of 140.5

Only Hooper scored more runs this series -- 579, which included a career-best 233 in the first drawn Test at Georgetown.

Chanderpaul was handed a new car for his achievements and celebrated by driving it around the stadium with the West Indies team perched all over it, and with fans waving Jamaican flags following behind.

A five-match one-day series between these two teams starts with back-to-back games at Sabina Park this weekend.