South Africa Beat West Indies in 1st ODI Match of series,2015

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY 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 ONE DAY international match was to be played on Kingsmead, Durban, South Africa on 16th 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 ONE DAY international match: Morne van Wyk (wk), Wayne Parnell, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, H Amla, Faf du Plessis (c), Farhaan Behardien, Ab De Villiers, Kyle Abbott, Reeza Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy (c), Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, L Simmons, Jason Holder, Sheldon Cottrell

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 279 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with top scores of Ab De Villiers who made 81 runs in 94 balls with 6 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 86 runs in 100 balls and H Amla who made 66 runs in 66 balls with 10 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 280 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the score of 280 runs and was only able to make 164 in 28.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 61 runs as target was revised due to rain interruption and top scores by D ramdin who made 31 runs in 32 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 61 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0 in favor of South Africa with 4 matches still to play in the series.

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