PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – West Indies were pounded in the second One-Day International here yesterday as India executed clinically in all departments to carve out a seven-wicket win and take a 2-0 in the five-match series. Sent in to bat, West Indies collapsed to a disappointing 240 for nine from their 50 overs after seemingly set for an imposing total and their bowlers could do precious little as India romped to their revised target of 183, following a near 45-minute break for rain.
Elegant Virat Kohli pummelled 81 from 103 balls while Parthiv Patel cracked 56 from 64 balls, providing the platform for India’s successful run chase that ended with 20 balls of the revised quota of 37 overs still remaining.
Earlier, Ramnaresh Sarwan (56) and Lendl Simmons (53) both stroked half-centuries but West Indies suffered a dramatic collapse later to stutter to their eventual total.
Cruising at 175 for two in the 36th over, West Indies lost five wickets for 22 runs in the space of 46 balls, to lose their way at 197 for seven before a stunned crowd at Queen’s Park Oval.
They then needed captain Darren Sammy’s cameo 19-ball, unbeaten 22 at the end to reach a competitive score, as they started positively with Simmons posting 57 for the first wicket with Kirk Edwards who hit 25.
Edwards, who survived a sharp caught-and-bowled chance to seamer Munaf Patel when three, with the score on six, slapped three fours and a six before edging a huge leg-break from Amit Mishra (4-31) to the wicketkeeper in the 13th over.
Simmons then found an ally in Sarwan and added a further 67 for the second wicket. Caught behind off a no-ball from Munaf on 20 at 37 without loss, the right-handed Simmons countered well with three fours and two leg-side sixes.
After reaching his fifth half-century in six ODI innings, he lunged at off-spinner Yusuf Pathan (2-51) and was stumped at 124 but Marlon Samuels strode to the wicket to carve out an elegant 36 from 32 balls with three fours and a six.
He dominated a 51-run, third-wicket partnership, rolling out an array of sweetly timed shots, none better than a majestic cover drive off Mishra.
Like Simmons, however, his exuberance got the better of him and he too was stumped charging at Pathan at the end of the 36th over at 175 for three, with his dismissal triggering a disastrous collapse as the Windies batsmen resorted to mindless batting.
Sarwan hit a waist-high full toss from Munaf Patel (3-35) down the throat of mid-wicket after hitting three fours off 90 balls, Kieron Pollard swung across his third delivery to be lbw to Mishra and Dwayne Bravo gifted his wicket to long-off off the same bowler for eight, as West Indies tumbled to 197 for six in the 44th over.
Carlton Baugh’s ugly swipe at Mishra’s googly saw his stumps rattle with no addition to the score and it was left to Sammy and Ravi Rampaul (14) to scrape 31 from 28 balls to give the innings impetus.
West Indies struck early when pacer Rampaul had Shikhar Dhawan caught at point by Pollard for three off the first ball of the third over, with the score on eight, but there was no more immediate success for the Windies however, as Kohli and and Parthiv Patel put on 120 for the second wicket to put the result virtually beyond doubt.
Interrupted by rain at 100 for one in the 22nd over, India lost Parthiv Patel soon after the resumption but Kohli and captain Suresh Raina (26 not out) posted a busy 45 from 29 balls for the third wicket, to execute the final rites.

WEST INDIES innings
L. Simmons stp. P. Patel b Pathan    53
K. Edwards c wkp. P. Patel b Mishra    25
R. Sarwan c Pathan b M. Patel    56
M. Samuels stp. P Patel b Pathan    36
D. Bravo c Harbhajan Singh b Mishra    8
K. Pollard lbw b Mishra    0
C. Baugh b Mishra    2
D. Sammy not out    22
R. Rampaul c Raina b M. Patel    14
D. Bishoo c wkp. P. Patel b M. Patel    0
A. Martin not out    0
Extras: (b-1, lb-6, w-16, nb-1)    24     
Total: (for 9 wickets, off 50 overs)    240
Fall of wickets: 1-57, 2-124, 3-175, 4-192, 5-192, 6-197, 7-197, 8-228, 9-229.
Bowling: Kumar 10-0-54-0, M. Patel 10-2-35-3, Mishra 10-2-31-4, Harbhajan Singh 10-1-51-0, Pathan 8-0-51-2, Raina 2-0-11-0,

INDIA innings (target: 183 runs from 37 overs)
P. Patel c wkp. Baugh b Martin    56
S. Dhawan c Pollard b Rampaul    3
V. Kohli c Pollard b Bishoo    81
S. Raina not out    26
R. Sharma not out    7
Extras: (w-8, nb-2)    10
Total: (for 3 wickets, off 33.4 overs)    183
Fall of wickets: 1-8, 2-128, 3-173 
Bowling: Rampaul 6.4-0-32-1, Sammy 10-1-38-0, Bravo 3-0-20-0, Bishoo 7-0-37-1, Martin 4-0-29-1, Pollard 3-0-27-0.
Result: India won by seven wickets (D/L method)
Series: India lead five-match series 2-0.
Man-of-the-Match: Virat Kohli.