South Africa Beat West Indies in 5th 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 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on SuperSport Park, Centurion, South Africa on 28th Jan 2015.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 5th 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, J P Duminy, Reeza Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th 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 361 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of H Amla who made 133 runs in 105 balls with 11 4’s and 6 six at the strike rate of 127 runs in 100 balls and Rilee R who made 132 runs in 98 balls with 9 4’s and 8 six at the strike rate of 135 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 362 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the score of 362 and was only able to make 230 runs in 37.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 131 runs and top scores by M Samuels who made 50 runs in 47 balls with 1 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 106 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 131 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series ends at 4-1 in favor of South Africa and they have won the series.

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