West Indies v South Africa, 2014-15
Wisden's review of the fifth ODI, West Indies v South Africa, 2014-15
15-Apr-2015
At Centurion, January 28, 2015 (day/night). South Africa won by 131 runs. Toss: West Indies.
Amla played with unusual aggression to score 133 off 105 balls, while Rossouw - after four ducks in his first six one-day international innings - extended his second hundred of the series to a pugnacious 132, off 98. They put on 247, equalling the national all-wicket record they had set ten days earlier. The next-biggest contribution to an innings shortened to 42 overs by rain was 30 from Extras, 20 of them wides. Not for the first time, the West Indians bowled with neither discipline nor any apparent pride, and had the innings run its full course another record total might have been on the cards. Gayle's underwhelming series ended when he flayed at the first ball of the innings - bowled by Abbott and initially called a wide - and was caught behind on review. Samuels and Ramdin saved some face in a stand of 91, but the star was the mercurial Parnell, who bowled with well-directed pace and aggression to take four wickets.
Man of the Match: R. R. Rossouw. Man of the Series: H. M. Amla.
Amla played with unusual aggression to score 133 off 105 balls, while Rossouw - after four ducks in his first six one-day international innings - extended his second hundred of the series to a pugnacious 132, off 98. They put on 247, equalling the national all-wicket record they had set ten days earlier. The next-biggest contribution to an innings shortened to 42 overs by rain was 30 from Extras, 20 of them wides. Not for the first time, the West Indians bowled with neither discipline nor any apparent pride, and had the innings run its full course another record total might have been on the cards. Gayle's underwhelming series ended when he flayed at the first ball of the innings - bowled by Abbott and initially called a wide - and was caught behind on review. Samuels and Ramdin saved some face in a stand of 91, but the star was the mercurial Parnell, who bowled with well-directed pace and aggression to take four wickets.
Man of the Match: R. R. Rossouw. Man of the Series: H. M. Amla.