West Indies Beat bangladesh in 1st ODI of series,2011

West Indies was scheduled to play a 3 Match ONE DAY International Series in Bangladesh 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 and who will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 7th and 8th. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Shere Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh on 13th Oct 2011. Bangladesh won the T 20 series earlier 3-0.

Bangladesh won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how Bangladesh team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Mohammad Ashraful, Alok Kapali, Abdur Razzak, Mushfiqur Rahim (c & wk),Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Imrul Kayes, Naeem Islam, Rubel Hossain,Shafiul Islam, Nasir Hossain

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Darren Sammy (c), Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Adrian Barath, Ravi Rampaul, Andre Russell, Danza Hyatt, Anthony Martin, Carlos Brathwaite

West Indies batted very well and was able to post total of 298 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of L Simmons who made 122 runs in 124 balls with 8 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 98 runs in 100 balls and M Samuels who made 71 runs in 78 balls with 6 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 91 runs in 100 balls.

Bangladesh was needed to score 299 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Bangladesh batted very well but was unable to chase the score of 299 runs and was only able to make 258 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and lost the game by 40 runs and top scores by S A Hasan who made 67 runs in 58 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 116 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 40 runs and now this 3 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0 in favor of West Indies.

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