India's Paes, 40, won his third U.S. Open doubles title and the eighth major title of his career. It was Stepanek's second major doubles title after winning the 2012 Australian Open with Paes.
Peya and Soares had only two break points for the match and failed to convert either in their first final of a major championship.
India's Paes, 40, won his third U.S. Open doubles title and the eighth major title of his career. It was Stepanek's second major doubles title after winning the 2012 Australian Open with Paes.
Peya and Soares had only two break points for the match and failed to convert either in their first final of a major championship.
Warner was sent to Africa for match practice after being suspended for punching Joe Root and in his final match for Australia?A he struck 29 fours and a six against South Africa A in Pretoria.
He is due to return to this country at the weekend and link up with Australia in Hove during their three-day match against Sussex.
England confirmed on Wednesday that James Taylor, the Nottinghamshire batsman, would guest for Sussex as Andy Flower looks at candidates as cover for Kevin Pietersen, who is being treated for a calf injury.
Australia have called up Western Australia spinner Ashton Turner, 20, to the team to fill holes caused by injury. Turner, like Ashton Agar, is a Cricket Australia scholar working with Hampshire and will make his first-class debut.
Nathan Lyon returns to the side with a chance to earn a recall for the third Test next week after losing his place to Agar. “To be left out of the team for an Ashes Test match is not that easy to take but that comes down to the personality of the person,” Lyon said. “I believe my best ball can get the best batters in the world out. The thing is that I have to keep doing that over and over and over.”
Plenty of Australian players are struggling for form but England have room for improvement too with Jonathan Trott, usually such a consistent contributor, averaging 26.50 from four innings having thrown his wicket away on a couple of occasions.
“Anybody can get out quite early in their innings, I suppose,” Trott said. “You haven’t contributed for the team but, if you get fifty, at least you have done something towards the team effort, although on a personal note it is pretty upsetting because you have done all the hard work.
“I get myself out sometimes if I am brutally honest. That’s something I try to pride myself on not doing. It’s frustrating but I feel in the past that I have contributed. Other people like Joe [Root] and Ian [Bell] have stepped in, perhaps it is my turn for the rest of the series.”
Mohammad Irfan (second right) is congratulated by team-mates after taking a wicket WICB Media Photo / Randy Brooks Pakistan 243-6 (Ahmed Shehzad 64) beat
West Indies 242-7 by four wickets
Fifth One-Day International, Saint Lucia
Scorecard
Pakistan won the fifth and final One-Day International against the West Indies by four wickets with two balls remaining to take a 3-1 series victory.
In another closely-fought match, Pakistan reached 243 for six in the final over after the home side had posted 242 for seven.
A late blast of 48 in 27 balls from West Indies captain Dwayne Bravo was the best the hosts could muster before half-centuries from Misbah-ul-Haq (63) and Ahmed Shehzad (64) set Pakistan on course for the win.
However, the late dismissals of Misbah and Umar Akmal (37) threatened to undermine their chase until Shahid Afridi, unbeaten on 13, and Saeed Ajmal, on one, saw them home.
Pakistan elected to field first and Junaid Khan (3-48) struck quickly to remove Devon Smith (7) and Darren Bravo (9) before Johnson Charles' 43 and Marlon Samuels' 45 helped launch the recovery.
It was slow going, however, Charles occupying the crease for 71 deliveries and Samuels taking 89 balls. Mohammad Irfan removed both and West Indies launched the charge through Chris Gayle (21), Lendl Simmons (25) and Bravo, who hit five fours and three sixes.
Darren Sammy smacked 29 not out in 18 balls as Ajmal also returned two wickets by removing Simmons and Bravo.
Pakistan openers Nasir Jamshed, who made 23, and Shehzad, whose 64 came from 100 balls, then put on 51 together before Jamshed was run out by Gayle and Mohammad Hafeez's poor series ended when he was caught by Simmons off Sammy for 11 in 22 balls.
Misbah and Shehzad then put on 69 for the third wicket to take the score to 123, when Shehzad dismissed by Tino Best.
Haris Sohail made a fluent 17 in 22 balls but when he departed, caught by Simmons as Best struck again to return three for 48, the match - like most in the series - could have gone either way.
Misbah then formed a crucial partnership with Akmal which turned the game in Pakistan's favour. The former stroked 63 in 93 deliveries while Akmal hurried to 37 in 28, exiting in the 48th over when he skied an attempted pull off Best and was caught by Kemar Roach.
That left Misbah with the job of shepherding Pakistan to the finish line but he couldn't quite stay to finish off the job, caught by captain Bravo off Jason Holder with the scores level, leaving Afridi and Ajmal to complete the formalities in the final over.
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