West Indies Beat South Africa in 1st T 20 of Bilateral Series in 2008

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 match T 20 series in South Africa in 2008. In the 1st match of the International T 20, West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means South Africa will bat first and will set target for West Indies to chase later in this game.

This is how West indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1^st T 20 match: Dwayne Bravo (c), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Runako Morton, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Brenton Parchment

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 1^st T 20 Match: Jean-Paul Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Makhaya Ntini, Shaun Pollock (c), AB de Villiers (wk), Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Gulam Bodi, Morne van Wyk, Vernon Philander.

Rain interrupted in the Match that’s why this match is further reduced to 13 over’s a side game.

South Africa started poorly and was only able to make 58 runs in 13 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and contributions by J botha who made 28 runs in 22 balls with 2 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 127 runs in 100 balls, and G bodi who made 8 runs in 25 balls at the strike rate of 32 runs in 100 balls. Extra’s contributed 13 runs where in 7 runs are leg bye, 1 for no ball and 5 runs from wide balls.

West Indies was needed to score 59 runs in 13 over’s to win this game.

West indies batted superbly and was able to chase this total in only 10 over’s at the loss of only 5 wickets and contributions of R Morton who made 20 runs in 14 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 143 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies won the match by 5 wickets and J taylor was the Man of the match for his great bowling and taking 3 wickets for only 6 runs.

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