South Africa vs. West Indies First ODI

[Akib]

Well the match started some time ago. Currently WI are at 240 for 6 in a little over 46 overs. Smith is on 46 not out. Sarwan top scored with 72. Ntini has 4 for 46 in 10 overs.

These are the lineups:

West Indies Players: S Chanderpaul, CH Gayle, XM Marshall, WW Hinds, RR Sarwan, BC Lara, DR Smith, DJJ Bravo, CO Browne, CD Collymore, DB Powell, PT Collins, IDR Bradshaw.

South Africa Players: GC Smith, AB de Villiers, HH Dippenaar, HH Gibbs, AJ Hall, JH Kallis, JM Kemp, MV Boucher, CK Langeveldt, A Nel, M Ntini, JL Ontong, SM Pollock, AG Prince.

Edited on, May 7, 2005, 6:39 PM GMT, by aka.

[Akib]

Well WI collapse to 253 all out.

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

besh shundor bhabe shuru korechilo west indies kintu abaro shai dosh neme jai. akhon kintu south africa batting korche ebong besh bhalo bhabai egiye jachhe tara. dannabad.

[Akib]

SA explode out of the blocks. At drinks they are at 89 for 0 with Smith at 39 and Dippenaar at 48. This is after 15 overs.

South Africa RR: 5.93
Required RR: 4.71

[Akib]

At drinks at 32 overs SA are at 171 for 1 with Smith on 92 and Kallis on 20.

South Africa RR: 5.34
Required RR: 4.61

[Xavier]

Gibbs has secured South Africa win with a double six at over 44!

[Xavier]

And Kallis ends the game with a double four at 44.5 and 44.6!

[Akib]

Well a very good game by SA. First they get 5 WI wickets for 21 runs as they restrict WI to 253. Then they bat superbly. The lowest South African score is 40 not out by Gibbs.

Man of the Match is Smith with his 103.

[FaltuRidwanBhai]

once again SA just outplayed WI. WI collapsed in the morning as usual as they were doing in the test matches. and as usual the middle order stood up firmly and were moving forward to a huge total. but once again a collapse and the end of their story of their batting. and SA batsman just made it look easy. they were just too good for the WI.