Great Match between Australia and West Indies in CWC ICC 1999

In the 28th match of the ICC cricket world cup, West Indies was against the Australian team. This game was played on Old Trafford, Manchester, England on 30th May, 1999.

Both teams were playing very good cricket, so we can expect to see a great game between these two non Asian nations. Australia won the toss and opts to bowl first and this means West Indies will bat first and set target for Australia to chase later. This is how Australian team and 11 were looking like in this match: Adam Gilchrist (wk), Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Darren Lehmann, Steve Waugh (c), Tom Moody, Mark Waugh, Brendon Julian, Damien Fleming, Michael Bevan

And West Indies team and 11 were looking like this in this match: Brian Lara (c), Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh, Phil Simmons,Curtly Ambrose, Jimmy Adams, Stuart Williams, Sherwin Campbell, Ridley Jacobs (wk), Mervyn Dillon, Reon King

West Indies batted poorly and lost their 5 wickets for only 67 runs in 23 over’s at the team score of 67 runs in the form of S Campbell, Brain lara, S Chanderpaul, J Adams and S Williams. After that the west indies kept losing wickets at regular intervals and were never looked like settling in the match and were eventually bowled out for only 110 runs in 46 over’s and their wicket keeper batsman R Jacobs top scored with 49 runs in 142 balls with 3 4’s and strike rate of 34 runs in 100 balls.

Aussies was needed to score 111 runs in 50 over’s to win this game.

Australia batted cautiously and chased the target in 40.4 over’s and Their wicket keeper batsman A Gilchrist top scored for them as he made 21 runs in 36 balls with 1 four and strike rate of 60 runs in 100 balls.

Australia won the game by 6 wickets and Glen McGrath was the Man of the match for his finest spell of fast bowling as he picked 5 wickets by only conceding 14 runs in 9 over’s.

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