Rodriguez, who had struck out in four of his last five at-bats over two days, smacked a fastball to center for a hard single.
Needing 25 off the final two overs, Carlos Brathwaite smacked two sixes off Gulbadin Naib's gentle medium pace but Sammy holed out at extra cover in the same over.
Five smacks now and counting -- from two people.
(He is so not hot!) He says he spent "an hour or two, just smacking my flint, over and over again," and then he stopped doing that and tried making a fire instead.
Against one of the better returners of serve, Roddick smacked 19 aces and was broken only twice over four sets.
Facing their powerful lineup, Nova was smacked around for 6 runs and 11 hits over five and a third innings.
9.04pm GMT 8th over: West Indies 62-1 (Gayle 27, Samuels 4) – Target 153 A fine, tight over from Tredwell who, since Gayle smacked him for six at the start of over six, has bowled 11 deliveries and conceded three runs.
I stopped on the day that I stood over one of my sons, who was then aged four, preparing to smack his bottom for some epic (yet long-forgotten) act of naughtiness.
Have you ever been sitting on the couch, holding hands with your mate, and the cat comes over and sits smack-dab in the middle of you two?
Half of the people were 25 and under, the other half 65 and over, leaving me smack in the generational middle and, as it happened, bouncing vertiginously, from one question to the next, between the future and the past.
