Australia’s substitute skipper Alex Carey scored 50 and speed bowler Mitchell Starc accepting five wickets as they beat West Indies by 133 runs in a downpour hit opening match of their one-day global series in Barbados on Tuesday.
Pursuing a Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) changed 257 pursues for triumph Australia scored 252-9 out of 49 overs after three downpour delays, the hosts languished a breakdown to crease over 123 with just returning captain Kieron Pollard (56) offering obstruction.
Starc did the majority of the harm for the guests, who came into the challenge at Bridgetown in the wake of being pounded 4-1 in their T20 series, with an eminent 5-48 which incorporated the wicket of Pollard who returned into the side after a hamstring issue.
Josh Hazlewood additionally dazzled with 3-11 from six overs as the guests took a 1-0 lead in the three-match series.Carey, filling in for normal captain Aaron Finch who disturbed a knee issue in last week’s fifth Twenty20 between the groups, won the throw and chose for bat as Australia made a consistent beginning at Bridgetown.
Josh Philippe (39), Ben McDermott (28) and Mitchell Marsh (20) all got begins however it was the captain who made the most with 67 off 87 balls.Along with Ashton Turner (49), he added 104 runs for the fifth wicket before the group abdicated, with West Indies leg-spinner Hayden Walsh getting his lady ODI five-wicket pull in about 16 balls.
“I figured the wicket may have played somewhat unique to what it did. In any case, for us to adjust and put a score on the board, yet then, at that point for the Powerplay to go the manner in which it accomplished for us was phenomenal,” Carey said.
“Ashton assumed a vital part. I was likely cruising along a piece and he was continuing ahead with it, he took the pressing factor off.”Pollard said he was dazzled with his bowlers in spite of the loss.
“Standard score here is around 260-270. Having the option to limit them to around 250-odd I believe was a fabulous exertion by the bowlers,” Pollard said.”If I’m fiercely fair I thought we parted with around 20-25 runs in the field for certain gifts.”