India beat West Indies in 4th ODI of Bilateral Series,2001

West Indies was scheduled to play 4 One Day International Matches in India in 2000. The 4th and Final One day International Match was played on Reliance Stadium, Vadodara on 31st 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, S Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle, Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, R Morton, Denesh Ramdin (wk)

And Indian team and 11 was looking like this in the 4th and Final One Day International Match: Sachin T, R Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, D Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), G Gambhir, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth.

India started very well and were able to set total of 341 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 3 wickets only and contributions by Sachin T who made 100 runs in 76 balls with 10 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 132 runs in 100 balls and Skipper Rahul d made 78 runs in 109 balls with 7 4’s and strike rate of 72 runs in 100 balls and Saurav G made 68 runs in 82 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 342 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

West Indies started poorly and were 5 wickets down for only 83 runs in 16.4 over’s and they kept losing wickets at regular intervals of time and were finally bowled out for only 181 runs in 41.4 over’s and lose the game by 160 runs and M Samuels was the top scorer with 55 runs in 63 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 87 runs in 100 balls.

India won the series 3-1 and Sachin T was the Man of the Match and man of the series.

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