West Indies Beaten by South Africa in 3rd 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 3rd match of the International T 20, South Africa won the toss and opts to bowl first, so this means West Indies will bat first and will set target for South Africa to chase later in this game.

This is how West indies team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd T 20 match: Dwayne Bravo (c), S Chanderpaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, R Morton, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Brenton Parchment

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 3rd T 20 Match: Jean-Paul Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, M Ntini, Shaun Pollock (c), AB de Villiers (wk), Albie Morkel, Johan Botha, Dale Steyn, Gulam Bodi, Morne van Wyk, Vernon Philander.

West Indies started poorly and was only able to make 120 runs in allotted 20 over’s of the game and that to with the contributions of S  Chanderpaul who made 30 runs in 50 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 60 runs in 100 balls faced and D Sammy made 20 runs in 30 balls with 1 four and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 67 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 121 runs in 20 over’s to win this match. And they were only needed to score 6 runs per over and they will surely win the match.

South Africa batted very well and was able to score the target of 121 runs in  17 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with the contributions of H Gibbs who made 80 runs In 80 balls with 10 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls faced.

South Africa won this match by 5 wickets and H Gibbs was the Man of the Match for his great batting display that won S A the game.

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