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Scorecard : Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI, Melbourne : 7 Feb 2010

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Doug Bollinger broke West Indies back early on. Match : Australia v West Indies, 1st ODI of 5 ODI CB series 2010.
Venue/Date : Melbourne cricket ground in Austrlaia.. 7 February 2010.
Debut : none.
Toss : West Indies, elected to field.
Result : Australia won by .
Series result : Australia leads 1-0, 4 game to go.
Man of the match : Australia won by 113 runs.
Umpires : Bruce Oxenford (Australia) + Billy Bowden (New Zealand).

Head to head : 121st Australia v West Indies one day match it was. Australia now have 60, West Indies 57 with 2 tied and 2 no results. In Australia, this was 71st encounter and West Indies lead is now cut down to 35 to 33 with 1 tied and 2 no results. at Melbourne, 26th ODI between Australia and West Indies it was and visitors lead has now slipped to 13 to 11 with 1 tied and 1 no result.

Australia inings : went off smoothly with Shane Watson and Shaun Marsh adding exactly 50 from first 10 overs despite some firey fast bowling from Kemar Roach. Captain Ricky Ponting continued good work done by openers but in middle overs, Windies part time bowlers, specially Keiron Pollard and Dwayne Smith with their clever medium pace and left arm othodox of Nikita Miller as well as captain Gayle himself as offspinner. Australians did well to go part 250 run mark, utilising batting power play well.

West Indies were never in chase after captain Chris Gayle departed early, although Kieron Pollard's half century partnership with Lendl Simmons impressed with some good shots.

Australia innings (invited in to bat) R B 4s 6s
Shane Watson c Morton b Chris Gayle 59 74 3 0
Shaun Marsh c Ramdin b Dwayne Smith 20 34 3 0
Ricky Ponting b Keiron Pollard 49 61 1 2
Michael Clarke c Ramdin b Keiron Pollard 18 30 0 0
Cameron White c Ramdin b Kemar Roach 22 35 1 0
Michael Hussey c Ramdin b Ravi Rampaul 28 25 2 0
Brad Haddin c & b Keiron Pollard 8 14 0 0
Mitchell Johnson b Ravi Rampaul 21 20 2 0
Nathan Hauritz not out 6 6 0 0
Ryan Harris not out 2 1 0 0
Doug Bollinger
Extras (b=4, lb=9, wd=10) 23
Total (50 overs) 256 for 8 wkts
Bowling O M R W
Kemar Roach (1 wide) 10 1 41 1
Ravi Rampaul 8 0 43 2
Dwayne Smith (1 wide) 8 0 42 1
Nikita Miller 8 0 40 0
Chris Gayle (1 wide) 6 0 32 1
Keiron Pollard (3 wides) 10 0 45 3

West Indies innings (target = 257 from 50 overs) R B 4s 6s
Chris Gayle c Johnson b Bollinger 7 5 1 0
Runako Morton c Haddin b Harris 3 15 0 0
Travis Dowlin c White b Bollinger 1 4 0 0
Lendl Simmons c Haddin b Watson 29 62 1 0
Narsingh Deonarine c Ponting b Johnson 19 31 3 0
Keiron Pollard c Johnson b Hauritz 31 35 3 0
Denesh Ramdin b Harris 17 14 2 0
Dwayne Smith c Watson b Hauritz 7 20 1 0
Nikita Miller c Haddin b Harris 4 10 0 0
Ravi Rampaul c Marsh b Hauritz 3 10 0 0
Kemar Roach not out 0 0 0 0
Extras (b=4, lb=7, wd=11) 22
Total (34.2 overs) 143 all out
Bowling O M R W
Doug Bollinger (1 wide) 6 3 18 2
Ryan Harris (2 wides) 9 1 24 3
Mitchell Johnson (3 wides) 7 0 31 1
Shane Watson 6 0 31 1
Nathan Hauritz 6.2 0 28 3





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