A dazzling unbeaten half century by Damien Martyn (67) and Lou Vincent's 43 helped ICL World XI beat ICL India [ Images ] XI by eight wickets in the ICL 20s World Series, at the Lal Bahadur Shastri [ Images ] Stadium in Hyderabad, on Wednesday night.

ICL World XI, replying to India XI's 141 for 5 in 20 overs, hit up 145 runs for the loss of two wickets in 18.3 overs.

Martyn scored an unbeaten 67 from 53 deliveries, which included ten hits to fence, while Vincent, contributed a valuable 43 runs off 32 balls, inclusive of six fours and a six. Marvan Atapattu [ Images ] (25) was also unbeaten.

Scorecard

ICL India XI
A A Jhunjhunwala lbw b Van der Wath 0
G vignesh c Harrish b Tuffey 7
A T Rayudu run out (Harris) 1
T P Singh not out 63
R Sathish c Cairns b Van der Wath 0
R S Gavaskar run out (Arnold) 30
S T R Binny not out 37
Extras: (lb-1, w-2) 3
Total: (for five wickets in 20 overs) 141

Fall of wickets: 1-0, 2-9, 3-9, 4-9 , 5-70

Bowling: J J Van der Wath 4-1-12-2, DR Tuffey 3-0-27-1, UDU Chandanna 4-0-30-0, AJ Hall 4-0-29-0, CZ Harris 3-0-19-0, IJ Harvey 2-0-23-0.

ICL World XI
L Vincent c Kumaran b Binny 43
IJ Harvey c Murtaza b Vignesh 5
DR Martyn not out 67
M S Atapattu not out 25
Extras: (w-5) 5
Total: (for two wickets in 18.3 overs) 145

Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-79

Bowling: AN Ahmed 3-0-25-0, G Vignesh 3.3-0-28-1, A Murtaza 4-0-25-0, T P Singh 1-0-11-0, T Kumaran 2-0-20-0, STR Binny 4-0-32-1, R Satish 1-0-4-0.