New Zealand Beat West Indies in bilateral Series played in Year 2000

West Indies were scheduled to play 5 One Day International Matches in New Zealand in 2000. It was a very interesting series as both these teams were playing some great cricket on that time. The First match of 5 One day international Series was played on Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand on 11th Jan, 2000.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bat first, so this means. New Zealand will bowl first and will try to chase whatever total West Indies put for them. This is how West indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st One Day International: Brian Lara (c), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Jimmy Adams, Sherwin Campbell, Ridley Jacobs (wk), Franklyn Rose, Mervyn Dillon, Reon King, Nehemiah Perry, Ricardo Powell

And New Zealand team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st one Day international: Stephen Fleming (c), Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Craig McMillan, Daniel Vettori, Chris Harris, Dion Nash, Adam Parore (wk), Roger Twose, Craig Spearman, Shayne O’Connor

West Indies played very well and were able to set the total of 268 runs in allotted 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets. And Skipper Brian Lara top scored with 76 runs in 81 balls with 3 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 94 runs in 100 balls And West indies Wicket keeper batsman Ridley Jacobs made 65 runs in 61 balls with 7 4’sa and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 107 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was required to get 269 runs in allotted 50 over’s to win this 1^st one Day international.

New Zealand started very well and was able to chase in target with 5 balls still remaining in the game to play. Nathan Astle made 77 runs in 101 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six and also picked one wicket for only 37 runs in his 9 over’s.

Nathan Astle was awarded as man of the Match for his all round performance. With this Win NZ go 1-0 up in this 5 match ODI series with 4 matches still to play.

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