India beaten by West Indies in 3rd ODI of Bilateral Series,2001

West Indies was scheduled to play 4 One Day International Matches in India in 2000. The 3rd One day International Match was played on MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai on 27th Jan, 2001.
West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first 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 3rd One Day International Match: Sachin T, R Dravid (c), Sourav Ganguly, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Dinesh Karthik, Ajit Agarkar, MS Dhoni (wk), Gautam Gambhir, Suresh Raina, S Sreesanth.

India started very well and were looking like to post a good target but they lost their way in the middle over’s and were bowled out for only 268 runs in 48 over’s and was top scored by Robin U who made 70 runs in 41 balls with 11 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 171 runs in 100 balls and Sachin T who made 60 runs in 66 balls with 2 4’s and strike rate of 91 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was required to score only 269 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

West Indies batted well and were able to chase this target in only 43.4 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and top scored by M Samuels who made 98 runs in 95 balls with 12 4’s and 1 six and Skipper Brain L made 83 runs in 88 balls with 10 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls. D Smith also made 33 runs in 34 balls with 6 4’s and strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won this match by 3 wickets and M Samuels was the Man of the Match.

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