Cricket World Player Of The Week - Devendra Bishoo

Cricket World Player Of The Week - Devendra Bishoo

Devendra Bishoo (facing camera, arms raised) impressed for the West Indies this week

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West Indies leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo has been named as the Cricket World® Player Of The Week after he took six wickets in two matches against Pakistan.

He excelled in the Twenty20 International, taking four for 17 to bowl the West Indies to a seven-run victory. He dismissed Asad Shafiq, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi and then Abdur Rehman, performing impressively on his first performance in the West Indies.

Bishoo was a late call-up to the World Cup squad as a replacement for Dwayne Bravo and on his first One-Day International at home, he took the only two wickets that Pakistan lost during their eight-wicket success in Saint Lucia.

Drafted into the attack after the openers had got Pakistan off to a flyer, he removed both Mohammad Hafeez and Ahmed Shehzad and although he got through his ten overs - the only bowler to do so - his efforts were in vain.

Other contenders for the weekly award included Bishoo's team-mate Darren Bravo as well as Pakistanis Hafeez, Shafiq and Misbah, who all scored half-centuries in the first ODI.

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