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WIndies win toss and bat against South Africa

ROSEAU, Dominica - Hosts West Indies captain Chris Gayle won the toss and elected to bat against South Africa in the fourth One-day International here on Sunday.

West Indies have made one change. They have rested Jerome Taylor, and brought Dave Bernard Jr in to replace him for the match at Windsor Park in the Dominica capital.

For South Africa, Lonwabo Tsotsobe is fit again, so this allows Dale Steyn to be rested, and Jean-Paul Duminy is preferred ahead of Alviro Petersen.

South Africa lead the five-match series 3-0, after they won the third ODI by 67 runs last Friday at the same venue.

The South Africans also won the rain-affected first ODI by 66 runs, under the Duckworth-Lewis Method, a fortnight ago at the Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua, where they also won the second ODI by 17 runs.

The series concludes at the Queen’s Park Oval in the Trinidad & Tobago capital of Port of Spain this coming Thursday.

The final ODI and the first Test of three between the two sides, as well as a tour match in between were shifted from Sabina Park in Jamaica.

This followed an outbreak of violence in sections of the Jamaica capital of Kingston between security forces and armed supporters of community strongman and alleged drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke over an extradition order to the United States.

Teams:

West Indies: Chris Gayle (capt), Dale Richards, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Darren Sammy, Dave Bernard Jr, Denesh Ramdin (wkt, Sulieman Benn, Ravi Rampaul

South Africa: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Jacques Kallis, David Miller, Abraham de Villiers (wkt), Jean-Paul Duminy, Johan Botha, Morne Morkel, Ryan McLaren, Charl Langeveldt, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Umpires: Billy Doctrove (WIS), Daryl Harper (AUS)

TV umpire: Norman Malcolm (WIS)

Match referee: Roshan Mahanama (SLK)

Reserve umpire: Clive Duncan (WIS)