West Indies Beaten by pakistan in 1st ODI in series,2011

Pakistan was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in West Indies in 2011. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series. The 1^st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, Gros Islet, St Lucia, West Indies on 23^rd April 2016. West Indies earlier won the T 20 series 3-0.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st ONE DAY international match: Darren Sammy (c), Marlon Samuels, Lendl Simmons, Andre Fletcher (wk), D Bravo, Ravi Rampaul, C Barnwell, D Bishoo, Andre Russell, Danza Hyatt, Ashley Nurse

And Pakistan team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st ONE DAY international Match: Shahid Afridi (c), M ul Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Abdur Rehman, Wahab Riaz, S Ajmal, Ahmed Shehzad, U Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Junaid Khan, M Salman (wk)

West Indies batted well and was able to post total of 221 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 6 wickets and with top scores of D Bravo who made 67 runs in 109 balls with 1 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 61 runs in 100 balls and D Sammy who made 29 runs in 17 balls with 3 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 171 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan was needed to score 222 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Pakistan batted very well and was able to chase the score of 222 runs in 41.3 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and won the game by 8 wickets in hand and top scores by opener M Ul Haq who made 73 runs in 90 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 81 runs in 100 balls.

Pakistan won the match by 8 wickets and takes lead in this 5 Match One Day international series at 1-0 with 4 more games to play.

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