The stadium has 50,000 seats and tickets are priced from Rs.200 to Rs.1500.
The meteorological department has forecast scattered rain in Kerala for the next two days and also added that it would be fairly widespread.
But putting on a brave face T.C. Mathew, president of the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA), said that the cricket body was well prepared to handle any such situation.
Wednesday's match would be the 10th ODI in Kochi since the first match in 1998
Match Statistics
Marlon Samuels (126*) scored his sixth ODI hundred-second against India.During his innings Samuels completed his 4,000 runs in ODIs. He became 10th West Indies batsman to do so.
Marlon Samuels also completed his 1,000 runs against India in ODIs. He became eighth West Indies batsman to do so after Desmond Haynes (1357), S Chanderpaul (1319), Ramnaresh Sarwan (1296), Carl Hooper (1279), Chris Gayle (1220), Gordon Greenidge (1181) and Brian Lara (1142).
Marlon Samuels has now made eight fifty-plus scores against India in India. Only one batsman- Ricky Ponting (9) – has scored more.
The fourth wicket partnership of 165 runs between Samuels and Ramdin is West Indies’ best for fourth wicket against India. The pair surpassed the previous record stand of 149 between Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul at Rajkot in 2002.
The win by 124 runs was West Indies’ second biggest by run-margin over India after 135-run win at Vijaywada in 2002.
Match Result
Chasing 322, India lost the first game of the five-match ODI series against West Indies by 124 runs at the Nehru Stadium in Koch
West Indies 321 for 6 (Samuels 126*, Ramdin 61, Shami 4-66) beat India 197 (Dhawan 68, Samuels 2-10, Dwayne Bravo 2-28) by 124 runs.
Man of the Match: Marlon Samuels for unbeaten 126 (116 balls) and 2 for 10 in three overs.
India won the toss and decided to field
Scorecard
West Indies scored 321/6 in 50 overs
| Runs | Minutes | Balls | 4s | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dwayne Smith | b Jadeja | 46 | 76 | 45 | 4 | 2 | |
| Dwayne Bravo | c Dhawan | b Shami | 17 | 29 | 24 | 4 | 0 |
| Darren Bravo | c Dhawan | b A Mishra | 28 | 66 | 45 | 2 | 1 |
| Samuels | not out | 126 | 144 | 116 | 11 | 4 | |
| Ramdin | c Jadeja | b Shami | 61 | 99 | 59 | 5 | 2 |
| Pollard | b Shami | 2 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Russell | c Kohli | b Shami | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sammy | not out | 10 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | |
| Extras | 1nb 17w 7b 5lb | 30 | |||||
| Total | for 6 (50.0 ovs) | 321 | |||||
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B Kumar | 10.0 | 1 | 38 | 0 |
| M Sharma | 9.0 | 0 | 61 | 0 |
| Shami | 9.0 | 1 | 66 | 4 |
| Jadeja | 10.0 | 0 | 58 | 1 |
| A Mishra | 10.0 | 0 | 72 | 1 |
| Raina | 2.0 | 0 | 14 | 0 |
| Fall of Wicket | |
|---|---|
| 34 | Dwayne Bravo |
| 98 | Dwayne Smith |
| 120 | Darren Bravo |
| 285 | Ramdin |
| 296 | Pollard |
| 298 | Russell |
India scored 197/10 in 41 overs
| Runs | Minutes | Balls | 4s | 6s | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahane | run out (Dwayne Smith) | 24 | 42 | 22 | 4 | 0 | |
| Dhawan | b Samuels | 68 | 143 | 92 | 9 | 0 | |
| Kohli | c Sammy | b Taylor | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Rayudu | c Benn | b Russell | 13 | 32 | 21 | 1 | 0 |
| Raina | b Dwayne Bravo | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dhoni | b Sammy | 8 | 35 | 21 | 0 | 0 | |
| Jadeja | not out | 33 | 79 | 36 | 2 | 1 | |
| B Kumar | c Sammy | b Samuels | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| A Mishra | lbw | b Dwayne Bravo | 5 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| M Sharma | c Taylor | b Rampaul | 8 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| Shami | b Rampaul | 19 | 26 | 17 | 2 | 1 | |
| Extras | 0nb 14w 0b 1lb | 15 | |||||
| Total | for 10 (41.0 ovs) | 197 | |||||
| Bowler | Overs | Maidens | Runs | Wickets |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rampaul | 8.0 | 0 | 48 | 2 |
| Taylor | 10.0 | 1 | 50 | 1 |
| Dwayne Bravo | 6.0 | 0 | 28 | 2 |
| Russell | 4.0 | 0 | 21 | 1 |
| Benn | 5.0 | 0 | 16 | 0 |
| Sammy | 5.0 | 0 | 23 | 1 |
| Samuels | 3.0 | 0 | 10 | 2 |
| Fall of Wicket | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 49 | Rahane | ||||||||
| 55 | Kohli | ||||||||
| 82 | Rayudu | ||||||||
| 83 | Raina | ||||||||
| 114 | Dhoni | ||||||||
| 134 | Dhawan | ||||||||
| 138 | B Kumar | ||||||||
| 146 | A Mishra | ||||||||
| 155 | M Sharma | ||||||||
| 197 | Shami | ||||||||
Match Result - WI won by 124 Runs
Squads
India
| Shikhar Dhawan |
| Ajinkya Rahane |
| Virat Kohli |
| Ambati Rayudu |
| Suresh Raina |
| MS Dhoni (C, W) |
| Ravindra Jadeja |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar |
| Amit Mishra |
| Mohammed Shami |
| Mohit Sharma |
West Indies
| Dwayne Smith |
| Marlon Samuels |
| Darren Bravo |
| Denesh Ramdin (W) |
| Dwayne Bravo (C) |
| Keiron Pollard |
| Darren Sammy |
| Andre Russell |
| Sulieman Benn |
| Ravi Rampaul |
| Jerome Taylor |
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