Australia Beat West Indies in 2nd 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 2ndOne day International Match was scheduled to play on National Cricket Stadium, St George’s, Grenada on 27th June.

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

This is how the West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 2ndOne day International Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle (c), Ramnaresh Sarwan, Darren Sammy, Xavier Marshall, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, D Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, Sulieman Benn, Andre Fletcher

And Australia team and 11 looking like in this 2ndOne day International Match: Ricky P (c), Brett Lee, Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad Haddin (wk), Cameron White, James Hopes, Nathan Bracken, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Michael Hussey.

Australia batted well on a tough wicket to bat and was able to score 213 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with the contributions of M hussy who made 62 runs in 105 balls with 2 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 59 runs in 100 balls and M Clarke made 56 runs in 98 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 57 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 214 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

West Indies bated poorly and was only able to make 140 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in the allotted over’s and lost the game and with the contributions of S Chanderpaul who made unbeaten 45 runs in 77 balls with 1 four and 1 six at the strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match and lead the series 2-0 with 3 more games to play.

M Clarke was the man of the match.

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