Australia Beat West Indies in 3rd 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 3^rd One day International Match was scheduled to play on National Cricket Stadium, St George’s, Grenada on 29th June.

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

This is how the West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 3^rd One day International Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle (c), R Sarwan, Darren Sammy, Xavier Marshall, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, D Ramdin (wk), Kieron Pollard, S Benn, Andre Fletcher

And Australia team and 11 looking like in this 3^rd One day International Match: Ricky P (c), Brett Lee, M Clarke, Shane Watson, Brad H (wk), Cameron White, James Hopes, N Bracken, Mitchell Johnson, Shaun Marsh, Michael Hussey.

West Indies batted poorly and was kept losing wickets from the start of the game and was eventually bowled out for only 223 runs in 48 over’s and were even not able to play full 50 over’s and with the contribution of Skipper C Gayle who made 53 runs in 54 balls with 5 4’s and 3 sixes at the strike rate of 98 runs in 100 Balls and X Marshal made 35 runs in 65 balls with 4 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 54 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 224 runs in 50 over’s to win this game and series as well with 2 more games still to play.

Australia Batted very well and was able to chase the target in only 40.3 over’s at the loss of only 3 wickets and with the contributions of S Watson who made 126 runs in 122 balls with 15 4’s and 2 sixes at the strike rate of 103 runs in 100 balls and he was the man of the match.

Australia won the match by 7 wickets and series 3-0.

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