West Indies Beat South Africa in 1st T 20 of Bilateral Series in 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 1st T 20 international match was to be played on Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa on 9th Jan 2015.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 1st 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 1st T 20 international Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy (c), Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, Ashley Nurse,Jason Holder, Sheldon Cottrell

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 165 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of Rilee R who made 51 runs in 40 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 127 runs in 100 balls and F D Plesis who made 38 runs in 20 balls with 5 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 190 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 166 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well and was able to chase the score of 166 runs in 19.2 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and won the game by 4 wickets in hand and top scores by Chris G who made 77 runs in 31 balls with 5 4’s and 8 six at the strike rate of 248 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 4 wickets in hand and now this 3 Match T 20 international series stands at 1-0 in favor of South Africa with 2 more games to play in the series.

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