Australia Beat West Indies in 4th 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 4th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Sydney Cricket Ground, Sydney, Australia on 8th 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 bat first; this is how West Indies team and 11 was looking like in this 4th 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 4th 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

West Indies batted well and was able to post total of 220 runs in 49.4 over’s at the loss of 10 wickets and with top scores of K Pollard who made 109 runs in 136 balls with 11 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls and D Sammy who made 25 runs in 42 balls with 3 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 59 runs in 100 balls.

Australia was needed to score 221 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

Australia batted well and was able to chase the target of 221 runs in 44.5 over’s at the loss of 5 wicket and won the game by 5 wickets in hand with top contributions from Shane W who made 76 runs in 84 balls with 9 4’s and 0 sixes at the strike rate of 90 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets in hand and series stands at 4-0 in favor of Australia with 1 more game to play.

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