West Indies beat South Africa in 2nd ODI with Hope’s century

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West Indies beat South Africa in 2nd ODI with Hope’s century

New captain Shai Hope scored an unbeaten century as West Indies beat hosts South Africa by 48 runs within the second one-day worldwide on Saturday.

After electing to bat after successful the toss at Buffalo Park in East London, Hope’s good 128 not out powered West Indies to 335 for eight within the allotted 50 overs, hitting 5 fours and 7 sixes in his 115-ball innings.

South African captain Temba Bavuma hit a career-best 144 off 118 balls within the dwelling aspect’s reply, however they have been dismissed for 287 in 41.4 overs in an try to take care of the required run price.

On Thursday, the primary match on the identical floor was washed out and not using a single ball being bowled. The final match of the three-match collection will probably be performed in Potchefstroom on Tuesday.

“I thought it (the pitch) was difficult to start on,” Hope stated on the post-match presentation. “Once you’re in, you must go massive. You must play from place. The credit score goes to the batting companions for making it simple for me.

West Indies made a brisk begin to their innings on a very good batting observe and managed to maintain the momentum going as Hope discovered prepared companions in Nicholas Pooran (39) and Rovman Powell (46).

South Africa gave ODI debuts to 4 gamers, batsmen Ryan Rickelton, Tony de Zorzi and Tristan Stubbs, and seamer Gerald Coetzee, and the latter proved to be the choose of the bowlers with figures of three–57.

Quinton de Kock (48 off 26 balls) and Bavuma blasted the bowling as the house staff thrashed the goal from the beginning, however when the previous was dismissed, not one of the batsmen may match their high quality.

Bavuma was the ninth participant and accompanied him to South Africa’s spot.

“Had we restricted them to close to 300, considering we had got the early wickets (they could have won),” Bavuma stated. “There’s nowhere else to learn, it’s valuable experience.”


With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS

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