JOIN USICC World Cup AUS vs WI Highlights: Starc, Smith, Coulter-Nile lead Australia to victory
Australia pull one of their best WC victories
What an evening for Australia. Reeling at 38/4 at one point, they revived their innings courtesy Steve Smith and Alex Carey before Nathan Coulter-Nile came in and blasted the Windies bowlers enroute to the highest score by a no.8 in World Cups (92).
That whirlwind deflated West Indies after the first innings, who until then were going great guns. They themselves lost Lewis early and then Gayle, which took three DRS attempts, though the ball he got out to should have been a free hit. Wickets fell at regular intervals even as Shai Hope built good partnerships with Pooran, Hetmyer and skipper Jason Holder.
Hope fell after his fifty though and Holder was left all alone as Russell came and went in no time as did Carlos Brathwaite. Starc then got rid of the skipper himself, not before he had helped himself to a fifty though. The former ended up with a 5-wicket haul too.
The Windies were in the game for long periods of time but lost wickets when they shouldn't have and that cost them in the end. Thanks for joining us for the live coverage, do come back tomorrow when Pakistan take on Sri Lanka. Till then, tada!
WI 273/9 (50 overs)
49.1 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, DOT, driven to mid off
49.2 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, DOT, Carey takes it and appeals but it is off the pads
49.3 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, FOUR, pulls it to backward square leg. Inconsequential now
49.4 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, FOUR, driven past the covers. Send him up the order next time, Windies
49.5 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, FOUR, helped past short fine leg
49.6 Coulter-Nile to Nurse, FOUR, four fours to finish off. Driven past mid off, so will help their net run rate later on
WI 257/9 (49 overs)
48.1 Stoinis to Nurse, DOT.
48.2 Stoinis to Nurse, DOT, digs out the yorker.
48.3 Stoinis to Nurse, DOT, they don't take the run for some reason despite it going to long on
48.4 Stoinis to Nurse, DOT.
48.5 Stoinis to Nurse, 1 run, pulled away to deep mid-wicket, the two fielders in the deep do very well
48.6 Stoinis to Thomas, DOT.
WI 256/9 (48 overs)
Sheldon Cottrell is the new man in at no.10
47.1 Starc to Nurse, DOT, big full toss but not taken advantage of
47.2 Starc to Nurse, 1 leg byes, to short third man
47.3 Starc to Cottrell, OUT, bowled him! Yorker is too good for Cottrell, who made some room but got nothing out of it. That's a 5-wicket haul for Starc!
Cottrell b Starc 1(2)
Oshane Thomas is the last man in
47.4 Starc to Thomas, DOT, yorker just misses the stumps and has his hands on his head there
47.5 Starc to Thomas, DOT, defends it somehow
47.6 Starc to Thomas, DOT, holds on to survive another over Thomas