Australia Beat West Indies in 3rd 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 3rd ONE DAY international match was to be played on Manuka Oval, Canberra, Australia on 6th Feb 2013. West Indies holds the upper hand as they are more experienced team and playing very well as well.

Australia won the toss and opts to bat first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 3rd 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 3rd ONE DAY international Match: Michael Clarke (c), Mitchell Johnson, Shane W, 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 329 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 7 wickets and with top scores of Shane W who made 122 runs in 111 balls with 12 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 110 runs in 100 balls and George B who made 44 runs in 22 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 200 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 330 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the target of 330 runs and was only able to make 290 runs in 47.3 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 39 runs with top contributions from D Bravo who made 51 runs in 50 balls with 5 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 102 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 39 runs and series stands at 3-0 in favor of Australia with 2 more games to play.

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