West Indies Beaten by South Africa in 2nd T 20 of Bilateral Series in 2008

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 match T 20 series in South Africa in 2008. In the 2nd match of the International T 20, South Africa won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means West Indies will bat first and will set target for South Africa to chase later in this game.

This is how West indies team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd T 20 match: Dwayne Bravo (c), S Chanderpaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Runako Morton, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Brenton Parchment

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd T 20 Match: Jean-Paul Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock (c), AB de Villiers (wk), Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Gulam Bodi, Morne van Wyk, Vernon Philander.

West Indies batted well but they kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were not able to set a god target for South Africa as they were only able to post 131 runs in 20 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and that too with contributions of Skipper D bravo who made 24 runs in 17 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 142 runs in 100 balls and West Indian Wicket keeper Batsman D Ramdin who made 19 runs In 26 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 73 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 132 runs in 20 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted very well and was able to score the target of 132 runs in  19.2 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with the contributions of Shaun P who made 36 runs In 25 balls with 2 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 144 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won this match by 4 wickets and Shaun P was the Man of the Match for his all round performance and great batting display.

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