West Indies defeated Australia in the T20 World Cup warm-up match
Key players like Travis Head, Pat Cummins, Maxwell have not yet joined the Australian team. Mitchell Marsh performed as usual in captaincy. For Australia, Shai Hope started Tim David's first over by hitting a six on the 5th ball. Charles Josh at the other end, the third over was given to spinner Ashton Auger who hit 2 fours in Hazelwood's over. Charles hit 3 fours on him. However, Hope was caught by Inglis on 14 runs and Puran came down and hit a big six on the remaining ball for 18 runs in that over.
In the fourth over, Puran hit 2 sixes on Ellis' balls. 78 runs were scored at the loss of 1 wicket in the power play. After this, Puran rained sixes. Adam Zamba hit a total of 8 sixes and 75 runs in 25 balls. His strike rate is 300. He hit a total of 5 fours and 8 sixes. Sema Vlasu scored 133 runs at the loss of 2 wickets in 10 overs and 183 runs at the loss of 3 wickets in 15 overs.
In these middle overs, Rovman Powell scored 52 runs off 25 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes and was bowled out by Tim David. West Indies scored 74 runs in the last 5 overs and the score reached 22 runs in the 17th over, as Jamba hit 3 sixes along with a four in the 17th over, which slowed down Rutherford's pace. Hetmyer scored 18 runs and Rutherford scored 47 runs off 18 balls with the help of 4 fours and 4 sixes and West Indies were bundled out for 257 runs.
Tim David 4 overs 40, Hazelwood 4 overs 55, Ashton Auger 4 overs 58, Zampa 4 overs 62, all got the ball. In the Australian team that came to play, Warner was dismissed after scoring 15 runs in 6 balls. Ashton Auger, who came in at the start, scored 28 runs in 13 balls. Mitchell Marsh was dismissed after scoring 4 runs, due to which Australia achieved the target by scoring 113 runs for 4 wickets in 9.1 overs.
At the end of the 13th over, the score was 156 runs for the loss of 5 wickets while the need for 102 runs in 7 overs was a bit too much. They could only score 222 runs in total. Alzari Joseph took 2 wickets for 44 runs in 4 overs and Kudakesh Moti bowled brilliantly and took 2 wickets for 31 runs in 4 overs. Puran was declared the Man of the Match.