Australia Beat West Indies in 5th 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. Australia already won the series.

The 5th and final One day International Match was scheduled to play on Warner Park, Basseterre, and St Kitts on 6^th of July.

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 5th and final One day International Match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle (c), R Sarwan, Darren Sammy, Xavier Marshall, Jerome Taylor, Fidel Edwards, D Ramdin (wk), K Pollard, S Benn, Andre Fletcher

And Australia team and 11 looking like in this 5th and final 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.

Australia batted very well and was able to score total of 341 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 8 wickets and with the contributions of A Symonds who made 66 runs in 80 balls with 6 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 82 runs in 100 balls and Wicket Keeper batsman L ronchi who made 64 runs in 28 balls with 5 4’s and 6 sixes at the strike rate of 229 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 342 runs in 50 over’s to win the match.

West Indies batted poorly and was kept losing wickets at regular intervals in the game and was bowled out for only 172 runs in 39.5 over’s and top scored by Shawn F who made 59 runs in 74 balls with 5 4’s and 1 six at the strike rate of 80 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 169 runs and L ronchi was the man of the match.

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