New captain Shai Hope has scored an unbeaten century as West Indies defeated hosts South Africa by 48 runs within the second one-day worldwide.
After successful the toss and electing to bat at Buffalo Park in East London, Hope’s very good 128 not out anchored the West Indies rating of 8-335in their 50 overs as he struck 5 fours and 7 sixes in his 115-ball innings.
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma struck a profession greatest 144 from 118 balls within the house facet’s reply, however they have been bowled out for 287 in 41.4 overs of their try to sustain with the required run price.
The first sport on the similar venue was washed out with out a ball being bowled on Thursday. The closing match of the three-game sequence shall be performed in Potchefstroom on Tuesday.
“I thought it (the pitch) was a difficult to start on,” Hope stated on the post-match presentation. “Once you get in, you’ve got to go big. You have to play the situation. Credit must go to the batting partners to make it easy for me.”
West Indies made a quick begin to their innings on a great batting observe and managed to keep up the momentum as Hope discovered prepared companions in Nicholas Pooran (39) and Rovman Powell (46).
South Africa handed ODI debuts to 4 gamers, batsmen Ryan Rickelton, Tony de Zorzi and Tristan Stubbs, and seamer Gerald Coetzee, and the latter proved the choose of the bowlers with figures of 3-57.
The house facet went exhausting on the goal from the beginning as Quinton de Kock (48 from 26 balls) and Bavuma flayed the bowling, however when the previous was out not one of the batters to observe may match his high quality.
Bavuma was the ninth man out and with him went South Africa’s probabilities.
“If we had restricted them to around 300, considering we had got early wickets (they might have won),” Bavuma stated. “There is nowhere else to learn, this is valuable experience.”
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
