India beat West Indies in 2nd ODI of Bilateral Series,2001

West Indies was scheduled to play 4 One Day International Matches in India in 2000. The 2nd One day International Match was played on Barabati Stadium, Cuttack on 24th Jan, 2001.
India won the toss and opts to bat 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, S 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 2nd One Day International Match: Sachin Tendulkar, R Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth.

India started poorly and were 5 wickets down for only 66 runs in 21.2 over’s in the form of G Gambhir, S Ganguly, Sachin T, Rahul D, MS dhoni and were only able make and were bowled out for only 189 runs in 48.2 over’s and top scored by Dinesk K who made 63 runs in 87 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls and Ajit A made 40 runs in 47 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 85 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 190 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

West indies Started poorly and were bowled out for only 169 runs in 48.2 over’s and top scored by S Chanderpaul who made 69 runs in 125 balls with 4 4’s and strike rate of 53 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies lost the game by 20 runs and now were 2-0 down in this 4 match one day International Series. Dinesh K was the Man of the match for his great batting and it is for only him that India was able to post that match winning total.

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