West Indies Beat New Zealand in 1st ODI of series,2014

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in New Zealand in 2011. 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 4th and 5th. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on Eden Park, Auckland, New Zealand on 26th Dec 2014.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Brendon McCullum (c), Kyle Mills, Ross Taylor, Nathan McCullum, Jesse Ryder, Luke Ronchi (wk), Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson, Mitchell McClenaghan, Corey Anderson, James Neesham

And West Indies team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Dwayne Bravo (c), Darren Sammy, Narsingh Deonarine, Denesh Ramdin (wk),Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Kieran Powell, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul,Johnson Charles, Jason Holder

New Zealand batted very poorly and was able to post total of only 156 runs in 42.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of B Mccullum who made 51 runs in 57 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 89 runs in 100 balls and N Mccullum who made 47 runs in 64 balls with 2 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 73 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 157 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted very well and was able to chase the score of 157 runs in 27.3 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and won the game by 2 wickets in hand and top scores by D Sammy who made 43 runs in 27 balls with 5 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 159 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 2 wickets in hand and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series stands at 1-0 in favor of West Indies with 4 more games to play.

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