Date-stamped : 04 May97 - 14:16 Saturday, May 3, 1997 Final clash of the giants today... Lloyd: We want one more Buoyant West Indies will be seeking to climax the Cable and Wireless One-day cricket series with another victory in the final limited overs international against India at Kensington Oval today. Having won Wednesday's third game in St Vincent by 18 runs to take an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the four-match series, Courtney Walsh's West Indians will be seeking to extend the winning margin to 3-1. On the other hand, Sachin Tenkulkar's Indians will be going all out for a victory to square the series and leave the Caribbean on a triumphant note. West Indies' manager Clive Lloyd told CANA on the eve of the match, the players are eager to pull off another win. "It will be excellent to win the One-day series 3-1. It will show that we won it convincingly. I think the players played extremely well, especially in the last game when it looked like if all was lost. We came back and bowled exceedingly well and I'm sure that we can win the one here," said Lloyd. India's coach Madan Lal had a different perspective. He felt his side allowed the West Indies back into the game by playing badly when they were on course for a victory. They lost their last seven wickets for just 30 runs after passing the 200-mark with just two wickets down in pursuit of 250 for victory. "I think we didn't apply ourselves, because we were winning and we gave the match to the West Indies," Lal said on Cana Radio's Cana Sport programme yesterday. "In that sort of position, we should not have lost the game," he added. The Kensington pitch, the same used for the Test match a month ago when India were beaten by 38 runs inside four days, seems to be a good One-day strip. "It looks good. It looks much better than the Test match (pitch). It looks much smoother and harder," Lloyd said. West Indies are expected to play an unchanged team while India may make two changes, replacing all-rounder Robin Singh and wicketkeeper Saba Karim. Beaten 1-0 in the preceding Test series, India won the second One-dayer in Trinidad and Tobago handsomely by ten wickets after dismissing the West Indies for a paltry 121 runs. Former captain Mohammad Azharuddin, a veteran of 244 One-day internationals in which he has scored 6,661 runs, has struggled throughout the tour, but has kept his place in the team. First-choice wicketkeeper, Nayan Mongia, who missed the last two games because of injury, is expected to return for Karim to add some depth to the Indian batting. And Singh's place in the team could be taken by either left-arm spinner, Sunil Joshi, or specialist batsman, Vangipurappu Laxman. The experienced Navjot Singh Sidhu withdrew from the team minutes before the start of the last game after injuring his knee in practice and may be out again for this match. He did not practise with the squad early yesterday but the form of Singh with both bat and ball, is not encouraging and should Sidhu's knee improve over the next 12 hours, the Indian management may consider utilising him in an effort to have their strongest team for this deciding game. West Indies' batting has been inconsistent, with all the middle-order batsmen Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Jimmy Adams and Roland Holder, failing to score a half century. Opener Stuart Williams returned to form with a solid 76 which earned him the Man-of-the-Match award in St Vincent, while his partner Shivnarine Chanderpaul, despite a rare failure in the last game, has looked the best of the West Indies' batsmen. This match could also see ace fast bowler Curtly Ambrose become the first West Indian to capture 200 wickets in One-day internationals. Ambrose, 33, who is just five away from 300 in Test cricket, needs only two more to reach the 200-mark in One-day internationals. His captain, Courtney Walsh, has 193. Ambrose and Walsh will once again be joined by Franklyn Rose and the last game's unlikely hero, Ottis Gibson, to form the West Indies' four-pronged pace attack. The match will be the 55th clash between the teams in One-day cricket. West Indies have won 34 and India 19 with one game tied. Source :: The Trinidad Express (http://www.trinidad.net/express/) Contributed by The Management (help@cricinfo.com)