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Andre Russell’s blitz helps the West Indies beat South Africa in close match
West Indies captain Jason Holder grabbed three wickets in the final eight overs of the innings to record figures of 4-53, but missed out on a five-wicket haul when he dropped Miller off the final ball of the innings.
When two runouts helped the West Indies lose five wickets in the first 21 overs, it appeared as though another heavy defeat was on the cards.
But Samuels dug in and found support from Sammy, whose aggressive batting revived the innings until he was brilliantly caught by De Villiers off the bowling of Wayne Parnell.
Farhaan Behardien bowled Samuels soon after to leave Russell and the lower order with 74 runs to get, but the allrounder proved equal to the task as he smashed five sixes to give the West Indies the spoils after a much-improved performance.
“It means a lot to our team. Obviously we’ve had a tough tour up to this point so to get across the line today was very pleasing,” Holder said.
The last ODI is on Thursday at Centurion.
Copyright 2015 The Associated Press
