Australia Beat West Indies in 1st ODI match of Bilateral Series, 2013

West Indies was scheduled to play a 5 Match ONE DAY International in Australia in 2013. Both teams have great players and all rounder’s and match winners and it would be interesting to see them battle in this series and who batted very well  will be crowned as the winner after the series as they are ranked at 2 and 5. The 1st ONE DAY international match was to be played on W A C A Ground, Perth, Australia on 1st Feb 2013. West Indies holds the upper hand as they are more experienced team and playing very well as well.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1st ONE DAY international match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Darren Sammy (c), Kieron Pollard, Kemar Roach, Darren Bravo, Kieran Powell, Devon Thomas (wk),Sunil Narine, Jason Holder

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 1st ONE DAY international Match: Michael Clarke (c), Mitchell Johnson, Phillip Hughes, George Bailey, Aaron Finch, Clint McKay, Matthew Wade (wk), Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, James Faulkner

West Indies did not bat well and was able to post total of only 70 runs in 23.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of D Sammy who made 16 runs in 37 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 43 runs in 100 balls and K Powell who made 11 runs in 18 balls with 2 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 61 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 71 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted well and was able to chase the target of 71 runs in 9.2 over’s at the loss of 1 wicket and won the game by 9 wickets in hand with top contributions from Glen M who made 51 runs in 35 balls with 9 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 146 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 9wickets in hand and series stands at 1-0 in favor of Australia with 4 more games to play.

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