West Indies sign off with victory over Afghanistan
LEEDS, England: West Indies won the battle of the Cricket World Cup's basement dwellers, beating Afghanistan by 23 runs in their final group match at Headingley on Thursday .
Afghanistan were all out for 288 in exactly 50 overs - their highest score in the World Cup - to finish their campaign with nine defeats in as many matches, denying their West Indian coach Phil Simmons a winning send-off. Gayle slashed at a wide Dawlat Zadran delivery to be caught behind, finishing his last World Cup with only one half-century.West Indies could have been in bigger trouble but Rashid Khan dropped a sitter at mid-wicket off Zadran when Hope was on five.
Opener Evin Lewis celebrated his return to the team with 58 and Nicholas Pooran also made 58, his third 50-plus score of the tournament.Dropped catched, squandered run-out opportunity and misfields marred Afghanistan's fielding, best illustrated in the final over of the West Indies innings.
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