Test series After licking the West Indies dust, the Australian team also defeated the Caribbean team by 3 wickets in the first match of the T20 series. With this victory, Australia has taken a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. In this match, the hero of victory for Australia was Mitchell Owen. Oven not only took one wicket with the ball on his T20 debut but also scored a half-century with the bat.
The West Indies made a good start when he was invited to bat at Sabina Park. Captain Shai Hope (55), Roston Chase (60) and Shimron Hetmyer (38) laid the foundation of more than 200 scores, but they did not get the speed they expected in the last moments. Andre Russell, who will retire from international cricket after the second T20 on Tuesday, was able to score only eight runs in this match.
Australia’s Ben Dwarashuis (4-36) stopped the West Indies at a score of 189–8, demolishing the middle and lower order. After this, when Australia came for the chair, he was expecting a good start, but he also lost the wickets of both his openers, captain Mitchell Marsh and Jake Fraser-Macagark inside the powerplay.
After this, Cameron Green (51) and Owen’s 80 -run stormy partnership worked to bring him back to the match. Green hit five sixes in his 26 -ball stormy innings, while Owen hit six sixes and hit his first half -century before being dismissed in the 17th over.
Due to the stormy innings of these two, Australia managed to reach victory. Now it will be interesting to see if the Caribbean team will be able to return to the second T20 or not.
