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

Australia was scheduled to play a 5 Match One Day international series in West Indies. This series will be great as both teams are playing good cricket and its difficult to beat West Indies in their home conditions Still Australia holds the edge over West Indies.

The 1st One day International Match was scheduled to play on Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent on 24th June.

West Indies won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means Australia will bat first.

This is how the West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 1st One day International Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle (c), Ramnaresh Sarwan, Darren Sammy, Xavier Marshall, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Sulieman Benn, Andre Fletcher

And Australia team and 11 looking like in this 1st One day International Match: Ricky Ponting (c), Brett Lee, Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Cameron White, James Hopes, Nathan Bracken, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Michael Hussey.

Australia batted superbly well and was able to set total of 273 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with the contribution of S Marsh made 81 runs in 97 balls with 7 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 84 runs in 100 balls and Wicket keeper batsman B haddin made 50 runs in 52 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 96 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 274 runs in 50 over’s to win this 1st One day International Match.

West Indies batted poorly and was bowled out for only 189 runs in 39.5 over’s and with contribution of D Sammy and D Bravo as both made 33 runs in 35 and 37 balls respectively with 2 and 4 4’s respectively. D Ramdin also made 31 runs in 38 balls with 1 four at the strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 84 runs and S marsh was the Man of the Match for his great batting.

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