Andre Russell, you are in the game son! Having just marmalised the Pakistan attack to all parts at the end of the Windies innings, he gives his team the ideal start in the reply, running to round to take a catch when Nasir Jamshed miscues a pull to short midwicket.

Credit to bowler Jerome Taylor too, who hurried the batsman for pace. What a start for the Windies!

We're ready to get underway again in Christchurch. Can Pakistan make a go of chasing down this imposing total?

Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

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Fastest strike rate in any ODI innings over 40:

1) 338.63 - AB de Villiers (149 off 44) of South Africa v West Indies on 18 January, 2015

2)323.07 - Andre Russell of West Indies (today)

3) 308.00 - Brendon McCullum of New Zealand v England on 20 February

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Andrew Samson
BBC Test Match Special statistician

Of the eight teams batting first that have reached 40 overs in this tournament to date this is the fifth time that they have scored 100+ in the last 10 overs.

The average runs in the last 10 overs by teams batting first in this WC to date is 103.62.

West Indies, you would reckon, are in the box seat with that score. They were faltering a little when Samuels was dismissed at 103-3 at the halfway mark, but for the second game in a row, they have managed to rack up over 300 with some absolutely prodigious lower-order hitting.

Pakistan generally bowled decently, with Mohammed Irfan particularly impressive and Haris Sohail more than holding his end up as the fifth bowler, but they lost their discipline in the death overs and their fielding was woeful, with five catches dropped.

It's a funny game - if West Indies hadn't bowled so poorly against Ireland, we'd be thinking they were looking really good, no?

West Indies 310-6 from 50 overs (Pakistan won toss)

Last 10 overs: 115 runs

Run rate: 6.20 per over

Not out batsman: Russell 42 from 13 balls

Fall of wickets: 17-1 (Gayle 4), 28-2 (Smith 23), 103-3 (Samuels 38), 152-3 (Bravo retired hurt 49 not out), 194-4 (Ramdin 51), 259-5 (Sammy 30), 310-6 (Simmons 50)

Bowling figures: Irfan 10-0-44-1, Sohail Khan 10-1-73-1, Afridi 10-0-48-0, Haris Sohail 9-0-62-2, Riaz 10-0-67-1, Sohaib 1-0-8-0

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Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"If you bat first and don't lose too many wickets you see mayhem in the final overs. Andre Russell was great to watch - he hit some monumental sixes. If the West Indies can't defend this title this time they really are in trouble in this tournament."

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Russell gets four more with an extraordinary shot, falling over to the leg side and leaving his bat up to deflect the ball down to fine leg.

And then Lendl Simmons is run out off the final ball of the innings as they attempt to sneak two.

The West Indies end with 310, having racked up 115 off the last 10 overs. Russell contributed 42 runs in a 13-ball innings of gleeful savagery. That is a good score, and West Indies are well in this game.

Andre Russell isn't finished with the Pakistan attack yet. He lines up Wahab Riaz and flat-bats him down the ground for a meaty one-bounce four. The next one is even better - he picks the slower ball yet again and swats it over Wahab's head for a flat six. 300 is up for the West Indies.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"This is the cleanest hitting I have seen since, er, yesterday and Brendon McCullum against England."

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Andre Russell is dangerous. Hairdryer in the bath dangerous.

Sohail Khan sends down a short ball and Russell muscles it over the midwicket boundary for a huge six. There's more where that came from - he picks Sohail's slower ball and delivers it to the paying public in the stands at cow corner with a ferocious cross-bat swipe. More bad news for Sohail - his next ball is in the slot and it ends up in roughly the same area, albeit probably a few rows further back.

Three sixes off the over. 22 runs. Big.

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Andre Russell is the new batsman. He begins by deflecting one off his pads down to the fine-leg boundary. Useful. A more conventional, and indeed intentional, boundary follows when he picks Wahab's slower ball and slams it down to long-off. 13 off the over, and West Indies on track to post a score that will at least be very competitive here.

Sammy's frenetic cameo comes to an end. It's good bowling by Wahab Riaz, back of a length, angled in to cramp Sammy, and Shahid Afridi finally takes a catch at packward point.

Sammy is beginning to find his timing here, carving one past backward point for four when Sohail Khan strays too wide.

Worse is to come for the bowler. He errs too full with a slower ball and Sammy throws the proverbial kitchen sink at it, swinging it into the stands for an almighty six. Eleven off the over, West Indies finishing strongly here.

Would you believe it? Another drop for Pakistan. Simmons tries to loft a Wahab bouncer down to third man, Mohammed Irfan slides forward to take the catch, but he shells it. That's their fifth of the day - you have to think that could be costly.

Sammy is still struggling for rhythm though, trying to cudgel every delivery into the stands, but Wahab is out-thinking him with clever changes of pace. Finally he connects with one, sizing up a slower ball and launching it down to cow-corner for a one-bounce four.

Vic Marks
Ex-England spinner on BBC Test Match Special

"Sammy is a handy person to have batting now. He isn't quite firing on all cylinders but he is still there and there's time to get the feel of it."