South Africa Beat West Indies in 2nd ODI Match of series,2015

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in South Africa in 2015. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 2 and 7. The 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa on 18th Jan 2015.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd ONE DAY international match: Morne van Wyk (wk), Wayne Parnell, Rilee Rossouw, David Miller, H Amla, Faf du Plessis (c), Farhaan Behardien, Ab De Villiers, Kyle Abbott, Reeza Hendricks, Kagiso Rabada

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 2nd ONE DAY international Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy (c), Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell, L Simmons, Jason Holder, Sheldon Cottrell

South Africa batted well and was able to post total of 439 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and with top scores of H Amla who made 153 runs in 142 balls with 14 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 108 runs in 100 balls and Ab De Villiers who made 149 runs in 44 balls with 9 4’s and 16 six at the strike rate of 339 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 440 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the score of 440 runs and was only able to make 291 in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and lost the game by 148 runs and top scores by D Smith who made 64 runs in 65 balls with 9 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 98 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 148 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 2-0 in favor of South Africa with 3 matches still to play in the series.

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