WI vs AUS | Matthew Wade, Ashton Agar take Australia to ODI series win

A dominant performance from Australia with both bat and ball meant that they won the third and final game of the three-match ODI series against West Indies and thereby claimed the series as well, having already won the first ODI. Matthew Wade was the hero with the bat for Australia as he scored a crucial fifty to chase down a tricky total of 153 on a Kensington Oval wicket which was behaving very weirdly.

In its chase of the target, Australia had lost its first three wickets at the team score of 65 when Waade joined captain Alex Carey at the wicket. The two added 34 runs together before Carey was adjudged leg before wicket off the bowling of Hayden Walsh Junior. Ashton Agar, who joined the wicket after Carey’s fall made sure that the Kangaroos didn’t lose any more wickets and finished the game with six wickets in hand. Agar remained unbeaten on 19. 

Earlier in the day, after winning the toss, West Indian Kieron Pollard had decided to bat first. Evin Lewis who was looking ion a good touch was forced to retire after a ball hit his helmet ricocheting off his bat. Other Windies batters just couldn’t deal with the assist that the bowlers had from the wicket and the Men in Maroon were down to 71-5 when Lewis decided to come back and bat again. 

He joined Jason Holder in the middle but soon found himself batting with the tail as Holder was removed by Adam Zampa soon and the Windies were 75-6. Thereafter Lewis built small partnerships and kept stretching further the innings until it crossed the 150 run mark and he reached his 10th ODI fifty. Sheldon Cottrell was removed as the last wicket. 

Agar, who took two wickets and also helped with the bat was adjudged Man of the Match, while Mitchell Starc who took 11 wickets in three matches along with his match-winning spell in the first ODI was adjudged Man of the Series.