South Africa won the 5th ODI against West Indies in Bilateral series played in 2001

South Africa was scheduled to play 7 match One Day International Series in West Indies in 2001. The 5th One Day international Match was to be played on The Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados, and 8th May, 2001.

South Africa won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means West Indies will bat first and will try to set target for South Africa to chase later in the game.

This is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in the 5th One Day International: Brian Lara, Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Carl Hooper (c), Cameron C, and Ridley Jacobs (wk), M Dillon, Neil M, Ricardo Powell, Kerry Jeremy, and Leon Garrick

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th One Day International Match: Mark Boucher (wk), H Gibbs, Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock (c),Justin O, Roger T, Neil McKenzie, Allan Donald, Jonty Rhodes, Gary Kirsten, Lance K.

West  Indies again started poorly and were 3 wickets down for only 68 runs in 21 over’s in the form of C gayle, D Ganga and C Hooper and kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and were finally bowled out for only 199 runs in 49.2 over’s and were top scored by B lara who made 92 runs in  125 balls with 9 4’s and strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls and also by S Chanderpaul who made 24 runs in 33 balls with 2 4’s.

South Africa was needed to score 200 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted very well and were able to chase the target in only 42 over’s of the game with the loss of only 3 wickets and top scored by H Gibbs who made 107 runs in 132 balls with 12 4’s and 3 sixes with the strike rate of 81 runs in 100 balls and Boeta D made 42 runs in 47 balls 5 4’s and strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 7 wickets and H Gibbs is the man of the Match.