South Africa Beat West Indies in 3rd T 20 Match of series,2015

West Indies was scheduled to play a 3 Match T 20 International Series in South Africa in 2015. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 2 and 7. The 3rd T 20 international match was to be played on Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa on 14th Jan 2015.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd T 20 international match: Morne van Wyk (wk), Wayne Parnell, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, Imran Tahir, Faf du Plessis (c), Farhaan Behardien, David Wiese, Kyle Abbott, Reeza Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd T 20 international Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy (c), Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, L Simmons, Jason Holder, Sheldon Cottrell

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 195 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets and with top scores of Morne van Wyk who made 114 runs in 70 balls with 9 4’s and 7 six at the strike rate of 163 runs in 100 balls and Reeza Hendricks who made 42 runs in 32 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 131 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 196 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the score of 196 runs and was only able to make 126 in 19 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 69 runs and top scores by L Simmons who made 49 runs in 31 balls with 6 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 158 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 69 runs and now this 3 Match T 20 international series stands at 2-1 in favor of West Indies. West Indies won the series.

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