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India beat West Indies in 1st ODI of Bilateral Series,2001

West Indies was scheduled to play 4 One Day International Matches in India in 2000. The 1st One day International Match was played on Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur on 21st Jan, 2001.
West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means India will bat first and will set total for West Indies to chase later in the game.

This is how the West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this match: Brian Lara (c), Ian Bradshaw, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Runako Morton, Denesh Ramdin (wk)

And Indian team and 11 was looking like this in the 1st One Day International Match: Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth

India played brilliantly and was able to make score of 338 runs in 50n over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets with the contributions of S Ganguly who made 98 runs in 110 balls with 11 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and G gambhir who made 69 runs in 75 balls with 10 4’s and strike rate of 92 runs in 100 balls. MS Dhoni also contributed who is India’s Wicket Keeper Batsman, 62 runs in 42 balls with 3 4’s and 4 sixes at the strike rate of 147 runs in 100 balls and Skipper Rahul D made 54 runs in 35 bals with 4 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 154 runs in 100 balls.

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West Indies was required to make 339 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

In reply West Indies batted very well and were able to make 324 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and top scored by S Chanderpaul who made unbeaten 149 runs in 136 balls with 16 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 110 runs in 100 balls.

India won the match by 14 runs and S Chanderpaul was the Man of the Match for his great batting.




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