West Indies v Australia Highlights 21st June 2016 – 8th ODI Match

Watch Online West Indies Tri-Nation Series 2016 Complete HD Cricket Match Free Highlights Today. 8th Match WI v Aus at Bridgetown, Tuesday, June 21, 2016. West Indies got two victories like all others. But they are at third position in points table you can check below. But they have two chances remaining because WI played four matches and won two of them.

And all others played five matches each of them and won two of them that means WI will be playing two more matches includes today’s match. With a six-wicket victory over the West Indies at Bridgetown, Barbados, Steven Smith led Australia into the triangular series final. Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Maxwell made much-needed contributions in the middle order. With the pressure of potentially losing the tournament, interim coach Justin Langer was keen to see how his players would react.

At Kensington Oval, Marlon Samuels and Denesh Ramdin’s excellent century guaranteed that Australia’s batters had little room for mistake. On a surface more like to Australian conditions than any other in this series, Smith nonetheless delivered the leader’s workmanlike innings and managed to force Marsh into one of his finest and most comprehensive international innings.

After a series in which he was dropped for two matches, Maxwell onto the field with the game still in the balance and replied with a rush of strokes that would greatly boost his self-esteem. Australia needed 62 off 50 balls. The Australians will still need to work on their bowling and fielding, though, after they were found wanting in both categories in the afternoon.

After Smith put the West Indies in, Australia got off to a great start thanks to three early wickets to the new ball on the quickest surface of the tournament thus far. But Samuels found a willing partner in Ramdin, and the two combined for the greatest fourth wicket partnership in all of the ODIs between the two sides, scoring 192 runs.

Late-innings hitting by Samuels, who later scored his first ODI century against Australia, caused the visitors to second-guess their decision to bowl first. Spin was once more disregarded by the selections, and Matthew Wade’s decision to drop Samuels on number 65 highlighted yet another apathetic fielding performance. It looked early on that Aaron Finch and Usman Khawaja would be the perfect combination to set up Australia’s chase at the speed of the pitch.

But deliveries that were skidding through and out in the teens would hurry them both up. Debutant Shannon Gabriel produced a lot of speed with his powerful motion, but after two overs, Jason Holder was injured and had to leave the field. Smith and George Bailey attempted to steady the innings, aware that there wasn’t much good batting below them.

They were successful for a while, but Bailey struggled to keep up with Sulieman Benn’s turn and lift, which came among a number of loose balls, and he skied a catch with 184 needed. The decision made by the Australians to send Marsh in ahead of Maxwell proved to be a wise move. Using some of the cross-bat strokes he had mastered at his home ground, the WACA in Perth, Marsh thrived in Smith’s presence, loving the increased velocity in the pitch.

Smith’s intelligent ball handling allowed them to maintain visual contact with the target while producing an infrequent instance of careless West Indian fielding. Smith ultimately lost his wicket as a result of his attempts to stretch the fielders, as he was easily run out with the objective in sight. However, his withdrawal was advantageous since it let Maxwell join the fight.

He had appeared entirely at ease on the sluggish Guyana courts earlier in the tournament, but he overcame some nervous deliveries to surge in an exhilarating manner. Even though Maxwell’s heroics in the closing stages, which included an astonishing switch-punch six off Sunil Narine’s spin, mostly altered the winning margin rather than averting defeat, would significantly boost his confidence going into the championship match and beyond.

Marsh will also gain from a strong innings that demonstrated the kind of maturity the team has been waiting for from him for some time. On a beautiful day at Bridgetown, Australia announced the same starting eleven as the one selected for the cancelled match against South Africa, and the West Indies substituted Gabriel for Jerome Taylor.

This meant that the hosts entered with the dual spin of Narine and Sulieman Benn, while the visitors once more disregarded the spin of Adam Zampa and Nathan Lyon. After missing the first match against the West Indies, Starc found the speed and bounce to his favor right away. Johnson Charles found it too much, as he edged a quick, full delivery in the opening over, and Andre Fletcher did not do much better, scrabbling at a series of balls that whirred over him.

Hazlewood also produced a lot of lift, and it was one such ball that forced Smith to hold a one-handed catch as Darren Bravo dived from a wide first slip, ending a promising innings. Starc was vocally and technically abusing Fletcher, and it didn’t take long for him to be removed from the bat at backward point. When Ramdin joined Samuels, West Indies were three wickets down and the ball was still fresh, putting them in a very vulnerable situation.

Their first line of defense was to withstand the bounce and pace of Starc and Hazlewood, then to repel the early raids of Mitchell Marsh, Scott Boland, and James Faulkner. There was no boundary for over seven overs, and in the twentieth over, at 64 for 3, Samuels decided that Boland and Marsh had to be removed. He blasted 27 runs off the supporting seamers in the span of two overs, shifting the tide for the first time in the innings back towards the West Indies.

Smith didn’t have any good spin-bowling options to shake things up, and the batting conditions had significantly improved. Before attempting Maxwell, he turned to Aaron Finch’s part-timers, but neither player was able to secure a wicket. Samuels and Ramdin continued with ever-greater power, creating the perfect environment for the physical might of the West Indies to operate from farther down the order.

In the end, Ramdin failed to get a century and bowled with some swing at Starc, but more importantly, Smith had to use up his overs as a striker bowler well in advance of the innings finishing. Pollard arrived in ideal conditions, but he could not replicate the trick against Boland when Maxwell failed to catch him off Hazlewood, who became six when the fielder’s foot slid onto the midwicket boundary.

Numerous verbal altercations between Australia and Pollard and Samuels in particular, who were on the verge of elimination, were evidence of their aggravation with the match scenario and were at their most passionate throughout the competition. The annoyance demonstrated both the higher stakes of the game and a squad attempting to make an impression. Maxwell, Smith, and Marsh would all rise to the occasion. To get to the final, West Indies must defeat South Africa.

West Indies team: J Charles, ADS Fletcher, DM Bravo, MN Samuels, D Ramdin†, KA Pollard, JO Holder*, CR Brathwaite, SJ Benn, SP Narine, ST Gabriel.
Australia team: AJ Finch, UT Khawaja, SPD Smith*, GJ Bailey, GJ Maxwell, MR Marsh, MS Wade†, JP Faulkner, MA Starc, JR Hazlewood, SM Boland.

Match timings: 13:00 local time (17:00 GMT)
Toss: Australia won the toss and elected to field
Venue/Stadium: Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

Umpires – GO Brathwaite and RA Kettleborough
TV umpire – HDPK Dharmasena
Match referee – JJ Crowe
Reserve umpire – JS Wilson

ODI no. 3752 | 2016 season
Played at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
21 June 2016 – day/night match (50-over match)

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