India's Sachin Tendulkar celebrates his 100th run. - Reuters

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters)

West Indies defeated India on the Duckworth-Lewis system after rain stopped play early in their tri-series match yesterday despite a comeback century by Sachin Tendulkar.

The Indian master scored a spectacular unbeaten 141 from 148 balls, his 40th one-day century, in India's 309 for five.

West Indies, who were 141 for two from 20 overs when the rain started, were awarded the match.

Man-of-the-Match Tendulkar showed no ill effects from his long lay-off because of a shoulder injury.

"I'm very happy with my century," he said. "It was special to come back from injury and score a century.

"But I'm disappointed with the result. I thought we had a very good chance. West Indies still had a lot of runs to score and, on that pitch, anything could have happened."

West Indies captain Brian Lara, who was at the crease on 27 when play was stopped, said his team had taken the possibility of rain into account before their innings.

"Unfortunately the weather played a part, but we always had our eyes on that," said Lara, whose team lost by 78 runs to Australia on Tuesday after suffering an embarrassing batting collapse.

"Even though we were batting really well, there were 30 overs to go and in excess of 160 runs to get. The match was well poised but for us, we are happy with the points."