Australia wins against West Indies by 3 wickets in 1st T20I match of the series.
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The 1st T20I Match of the West Indies tour of Australia, 2022 played yesterday at Carrara Oval, Queensland. In which Australia wins against West Indies by 3 wickets.
Australia won the toss and invited West Indies to bat first, West Indies batted first, and started the inning not very well, Kyle Mayers played a brilliant inning of 39 runs with the help of 1 six and 5 boundaries in 36 balls, and Odean Smith runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in just 17 balls, apart from this, Raymon Reifer scored 19 runs in 23 balls, Jason Holder 13 runs in 7 balls, Brandon King 12 runs in 9 balls, Rovman Powell 7 runs in 13 balls, Alzarri Joseph 7 runs in 7 balls, Johnson Charles 3 runs, Nicholas Pooran 2 runs, and Yannic Cariah remains unbeaten for 1 run. In this way, West Indies scored 145 runs after losing 9 wickets in stipulated 20 overs and set a target of 146 runs in front of Australia.
Australian bowlers performed very brilliant bowling Josh Hazlewood took 3 wickets for 35 runs, Pat Cummins 2 wickets for 22 runs, Mitchell Starc 2 wickets for 40 runs, and Cameron Green 1 wicket for 16 runs.
Australia chasing 146 runs in the second inning archived the target by losing 7 wickets in the second last ball of the final over, Australia also started the inning not very well, Aaron Finch played a very brilliant half-century inning of 58 runs with the help of 6 boundaries in 53 balls, Matthew Wade played an unbeaten victory inning of 39 runs with the help of 5 boundaries in just 29 balls, David Warner dismissed for 14 runs in 6 balls, Cameron Green 14 runs in 10 balls, apart from this, Mitchell Starc remains unbeaten for 6 runs, Pat Cummins dismissed for 4 runs, Mitchell Marsh 3 runs, Glenn Maxwell and Tim David dismissed without scoring. In this way, Australia chased the target by losing just 7 wickets in 19.5 over and won the match by 3 wickets.
West Indies bowlers Alzarri Joseph took 2 wickets just for 17 runs, Sheldon Cottrell took 2 wickets for 49 runs, Yannic Cariah, Odean Smith and Jason Holder got 1-1 wicket.
Australian batsman Aaron Finch was selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant half-century inning of 58 runs with the help of 6 boundaries in 53 balls.
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