Australia Beat West Indies in 5th 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 5th ONE DAY international match was to be played on Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia on 10th 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 5th ONE DAY international match: Dwayne Bravo, Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Darren Sammy (c), Kieron Pollard, Kemar Roach, Darren Bravo, J Charles, Devon Thomas (wk),Sunil Narine, Jason Holder

And Australia team and 11 was looking like this in this 5th ONE DAY international Match: Michael Clarke (c), A Voges, Shane W, George Bailey, Aaron Finch, S Marsh, B Haddin (wk), Usman Khawaja, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, James Faulkner

Australia batted well and was able to post total of 274 runs in 50 over’s at the loss of 5 wickets and with top scores of A Voges who made 112 runs in 106 balls with 10 4’s and 2 six at the strike rate of 106 runs in 100 balls and B Haddin who made 43 runs in 45 balls with 5 4’s and 0 six at the strike rate of 96 runs in 100 balls.

West Indies was needed to score 275 runs in 50 over’s to win this match.

West Indies batted well but was unable to chase the target of 275 runs and was able to make only 257 runs in 49.5 over’s at the loss of 10 wicket and lost the game by 17 runs with top contributions from J Charles who made 100 runs in 121 balls with 8 4’s and 1 sixes at the strike rate of 83 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the match by 17 runs and series ends at 5-0 in favor of Australia.

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