Australia Beat West Indies in 2nd 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 2nd ONE DAY international match was to be played on W A C A Ground, Perth, Australia on 3^rd 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 bowl first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 2nd 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 2nd 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

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 266 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of George B who made 125 runs in 110 balls with 10 4’s and 4 six at the strike rate of 114 runs in 100 balls and James F who made 39 runs in 67 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 58 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 266 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the target of 266 runs and was only able to make 212 runs in 38.1 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 54 runs with top contributions from K Powell who made 83 runs in 90 balls with 10 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 92 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 54 runs and series stands at 2-0 in favor of Australia with 3 more games to play.

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