KINGSTON (Jamaica), May 22: India’s overseas woes continued as West Indies crushed them by 155 runs to win the fifth Test and the series 2-1 at Sabina Park Wednesday.

India, chasing 408 for victory, resumed on 237 for seven on the final day but were bowled out for 252 just 35 minutes into the morning session.

They have not won a Test series outside south Asia since defeating England over 16 years ago and last won a series in the Caribbean in 1970-71.

It was the first series win for West Indies since winning in Zimbabwe last year. They had lost 3-0 in Sri Lanka and 2-0 to Pakistan in Sharjah following that.

Wicket-keeper Ajay Ratra departed for 19 in the day’s third over, adjudged lbw for 19 by umpire Russell Tiffin off paceman Cameron Cuffy.

But television replays suggested it might have been Tiffin’s third suspect decision of the innings as the ball seemed to be missing leg stump.

Ratra had scored his maiden century in the fourth Test in Antigua last week.

Javagal Srinath drove Cuffy for a straight boundary but was bowled by a delivery that jagged back from outside off-stump to uproot his middle stump.

Zaheer was the last man to go, miscuing Mervyn Dillon high over cover, where Pedro Collins gleefully held on to a well-judged skier as West Indies embraced victory.

They celebrated by uprooting the stumps and hugging each other in the middle of the pitch as fans jumped over fences and stormed the field.

The side, led by captain Carl Hooper, then took a victory lap around the stadium to rapturous applause from the few thousand people gathered in the stadium.

Opener Wavell Hinds, who had scored 113 in the first innings as West Indies piled up 422 after being sent in to bat by Indian captain Saurav Ganguly, was named Man-of-the-Match.

India had scored only 212 in reply before bowling out West Indies for 197 in their second innings.

The visitors would have set a new world record if they had managed to get 408, beating their own mark of 406 for four set while chasing 403 against West Indies in Port-of-Spain in 1975-76.

Guyanese left-hander Shivnarine Chanderpaul was named Man-of-the-Series for his aggregate 562 runs at an astonishing average of 140.5

Only Hooper scored more runs this series — 579, which included a career-best 233 in the first Test at Georgetown.

Chanderpaul was handed a new car for his achievements and celebrated by driving it around the stadium with the West Indies team perched all over it, and with fans waving Jamaican flags following behind.

A five-match one-day series between these two teams starts with back-to-back games at Sabina Park this weekend.

On Tuesday, Collins emerged as a surprise star with three wickets as India wobbled after Sachin Tendulkar’s departure for 86.

Fast bowler Adam Sanford then saw to it that Collins’s brilliant effort did not go waste as he finished with 3-48 off 19 overs on a day when strike bowlers Dillon and Cuffy went wicketless.

India’s chances of victory largely depended on Tendulkar, who returned to form with a blazing knock after scoring just 49 in his previous five Test innings.

Collins, however, swung the match in his team’s favour in his opening over after tea when he knocked back Tendulkar’s off-stump with the one that kept a bit low.

Tendulkar posed the main threat to the West Indies with his rich and exciting stroke-play during his 32nd half-century in 96 Tests, hitting 13 fours in his 139-ball knock before playing a wrong line to be bowled.

He shared a 93-run stand for the fourth wicket with skipper Saurav Ganguly (28), who along with Vangipurappu Laxman fell to poor shot-selection.

Tendulkar, 28, also became the 10th batsman in the world to complete 8,000 Test runs when he reached 82 in the last over before tea, cutting off-spinner Hooper for his 12th four.

Tendulkar raced to his half-century with a flurry of shots, square-driving and pulling Dillon for two successive fours and then driving through mid-wicket for a three to complete his 50 off 83 balls.

Ganguly departed six runs after Tendulkar, pulling Sanford straight to Ramnaresh Sarwan at square-leg to leave his team tottering at 176-5 and praying for rain.

Laxman, the last specialist batsman, became Sanford’s third victim after having batted well for 65 minutes as he was caught pulling by Dillon, who ran back to take an acrobatic catch at mid-wicket.

The tourists’ plight would have been worse had Hooper not dropped Ratra at second slip off Sanford when the batsman was on nine.

Scoreboard

WEST INDIES (1st Innings) 422 (W.W. Hinds 113, C.H. Gayle 68, R.R. Sarwan 65, R.D. Jacobs 59; Harbhajan Singh 5-138).