South Africa Beat West Indies in 3rd 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 3rd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Buffalo Park, East London, South Africa on 21^st Jan 2015.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how South Africa team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd 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 3rd 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

West Indies did not bat well and was able to post total of only 122 runs in 33.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of M Samuels who made 26 runs in 38 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 68 runs in 100 balls and A Russel who made 16 runs in 25 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 64 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 122 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

South Africa batted well and was able to chase the score of 122 in 24.4 over’s at the loss of 1 wicket and won the game by 9 wickets in hand and top scores by H Amla who made 61 runs in 63 balls with 9 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa won the match by 9 wickets in hand and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 3-0 in favor of South Africa with 2 matches still to play in the series.

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