West Indies Beat New Zealand in 5th ODI of series,2014

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International Series in New Zealand in 2014-15. 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 5th and 5th. The 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Seddon Park, Hamilton, New Zealand on 8th Jan 2015.

New Zealand won the toss and opts to bowl first; this is how New Zealand team and 11 was looking like in this 5th 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 5th ONE DAY international Match: Dwayne Bravo (c), Darren Sammy,  K Edwards, Denesh Ramdin (wk),Lendl Simmons, Darren Bravo, Kieran Powell, Sunil Narine, Ravi Rampaul, Johnson Charles, Jason Holder

Rain interrupted match shortened to 21 over’s a side game.

West Indies batted very well and was able to post total of 363 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 4 wickets and with top scores of K Edwards who made 123 runs in 108 balls with 12 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 114 runs in 100 balls and D Bravo who made 106 runs in 81 balls with 12 4’s and 3 six at the strike rate of 131 runs in 100 balls.

New Zealand was needed to score 364 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

New Zealand batted well but was unable to chase the score of 364 runs and was able to make only 160 in 29.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and lost the game by 203 runs and top scores by Corey A who made 29 runs in 24 balls with 4 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 121 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 203 runs and now this 5 Match ONE DAY international series ends at 3-2 in favor of West Indies and they have won the series.

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