West Indies Beaten by South Africa in 4th 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 4th 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 4th T 20 match: Dwayne Bravo (c), S Chanderpaul, Darren Sammy, Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Daren Powell, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, R Morton, D Ramdin (wk), Brenton Parchment

And South African team and 11 was looking like this in this 4th T 20 Match: Jean-Paul Duminy, H 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 again started poorly and was only able to make 100 runs in allotted 20 over’s of the game and that to with the contributions of M Samuels who made 30 runs in 60 balls with 3 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 50 runs in 100 balls faced and D Smith made 30 runs in 30 balls with 2 four and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 100 runs in 100 balls.

South Africa was needed to score 101 runs in 20 over’s to win this match. And they were only needed to score 5 runs per over and they will surely win the match.

South Africa batted very well and was able to score the target of 101 runs in  19.5 over’s at the loss of 2 wickets and with the contributions of Ab de Villiers  who made  90 runs In 100 balls with 12 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 90 runs in 100 balls faced.

South Africa won this match by 8 wickets and Ab de Villiers was the Man of the Match for his great batting display and fielding that won S A the game.

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