West Indies Beat Ireland in 1st ODI of series, 2014

Ireland was scheduled to play a 3 Match ONE DAY International Series in West Indies in 2014. 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 batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as both are ranked at 7 and 9. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies (Caribbean) on 23^rd Feb 2014. West Indies hold the upper hand as they are more experienced team and playing at home.

Ireland won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy (c), Dwayne Smith, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Lendl Simmons, Andre F, Sunil Narine, K Powell, Andre Russell

And Ireland team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Ed Joyce, William Porterfield (c), Kevin O’Brien, Alex Cusack, Gary Wilson (wk), Paul Stirling, Andrew Poynter, George Dockrell, Tim Murtagh, Stuart Thompson, Max Sorensen

Ireland batted well and was able to post total of 202 runs in 49.2 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of G Wilson who batted very well and made 62 runs in 96 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 65 runs in 100 balls, S thompson who batted very well  and made 33 runs in 34 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 97 runs in 100 balls, Ed J who batted very well  made 25 runs in 44 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 57 runs in 100 balls faced, W Porterfield who batted very well  made 25 runs in 34 balls with 2 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 74 runs in 100 balls and K O Brien who made 22 runs in 35 balls with 0 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 63 runs in 100 balls, Extras contributed 12 runs with 0 byes, 2 leg byes, 7 wide balls, and 3 bowlers over stepped.

West Indies was needed to score 203 runs in 50 over’s to win this match at the run rate required of 4.06 runs per over.

West Indies batted well and was able to chase the score of 203 runs in 36.4 over’s at the loss of 6 wicket and won the game by 4 wickets in hand and top scores by K Powell who batted very well and aggressively and made 57 runs in 80 balls with 7 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 71 runs in 100 balls , D Smith who batted very well  and made 55 runs in 53 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 104 runs in 100 balls faced, D Bravo who batted very well  and aggressively made 35 runs in 29 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 121 runs in 100 balls and m Samuels who batted well and made 26 runs in 21 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 124 runs in 100 balls faced  and extras contributed 13 runs with 0 byes, 5 leg byes, 8 wide balls, and no bowlers over stepped for no balls.

West Indies won the match by 4 wickets in hand and now this 3 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0, in favor of West Indies with 2 more games to play.

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