Match 5: Australia vs West indies, Champions Trophy 2009

MG Johnson Survive Australia against West Indies. His 73* runs at the end is very crucial. West indian bowlers did well until MG Johnson came in to bat, he scored 73* in just 47 balls with 3 huge sixes and fours. West Indies do bat well as their second wicket partnership furnished a till of 124 runs of the team. But after that its Suicide.

Australia innings (50 overs maximum)		R		M	B	4s	6s	SR
SR Watson		b Roach		0	1	1	0	0	0.00
	0.1 And what a start! Kemar Roach's first ball is an inswinging yorker that crashes into offstump, Watson looks shocked at receiving that cracker first up 0/1
TD Paine		c Walton b Bernard		33	85	59	3	0	55.93
	19.1 there's the breakthrough West Indies wanted, Bernard's delivery held it's line just outside off, Paine was perhaps looking for Bernard's usual inward movement, gets a fine edge to the keeper, who collects this time 85/2
RT Ponting		st Walton b Miller		79	129	95	9	1	83.15
	30.3 Miller has got the big wicket, Ponting is gone, he came down the pitch to drive, was nowhere near the pitch of the ball, which was well flighted, it turns past Ponting's bat and Chadwick Walton whips the bails off 148/4
MEK Hussey		c Fletcher b Bernard		6	24	14	0	0	42.85
	25.2 Hussey falls, it was not the greatest of deliveries, shortish and on legstump, Hussey was looking to pull, gets a top edge towards Andre Fletcher at fine leg 120/3
CJ Ferguson		b Roach		20	40	30	3	0	66.66
	35.3 Ferguson is gone, a back of length ball outside off, Ferguson drives away from his body, gets an inside edge onto leg stump, "What mismatch," say the Windies 164/6
CL White		b Miller		4	17	16	0	0	25.00
	34.5 Miller's fantastic spell continues, White waits on the backfoot after seeing the ball pitch on middle and leg, turns across his bat and knocks back off stump 162/5
JR Hopes		c Walton b Sammy		5	18	13	0	0	38.46
	39.2 a beauty from Sammy ends Hopes' stay, holding its line after pitching on the back of a length outside off, Hopes closed the face of the bat, looking to play to the leg side, kisses the ball through to the keeper 171/7
MG Johnson		not out		73	66	47	8	3	155.31
B Lee		run out (Walton)		25	42	28	2	0	89.28
	47.6 from Roach, Lee's run out this time, another slower ball, full and wide, Lee mishits it towards short third man, the keeper gets to the ball and throws it to the striker's end, Lee is out of his crease after being sent back by Johnson while going for the third 241/8
NM Hauritz		not out		7	9	3	1	0	233.33
Extras		(lb 7, w 9, nb 7)		23
Total		(8 wickets; 50 overs; 219 mins)		275	(5.50 runs per over)

West Indies innings (target: 276 runs from 50 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
DS Smith	c Paine b Siddle	17	16	4	0	106.25
	5.4 the bouncer does the trick for Siddle, Smith prods unconvincingly at it, edges it through to the keeper 38/1
ADS Fletcher	run out (Johnson)	54	77	4	1	70.12
	24.3 from Lee, Johnson does the trick, he can't do anything wrong today, can he? Fletcher nearly holes out towards extra cover, it lands short but in attempting a quick run Fletcher is caught short, the direct hit finds him a yard out 124/2
TM Dowlin	c Paine b Lee	55	87	5	0	63.21
	36.4 Tim Paine takes a superb catch, that spells the end of Dowlin, he went for a pull against a quick bouncer, gets a top edge and Paine had plenty of ground to cover before taking that catch, he raced back and finally took the catch diving on the sponsor's logo 170/4
CAK Walton	b Hopes	0	2	0	0	0.00
	25.2 Walton's horror run with the bat continues, attempts a horrible across-the-line slog, inside-edges it onto the stumps 128/3
FL Reifer	c Hauritz b Watson	28	56	3	0	50.00
	44.5 a full ball just outside off, Reifer looks to crash that over mid-off, only gets it to point, where Hauritz accepts an easy catch 219/7
DE Bernard	b Siddle	8	6	1	0	133.33
	39.1 Siddle hits middle, full and straight, Bernard backed away to try slash it through the off side, he misses, middle stump is rocked back 187/5
DJG Sammy	c Hussey b Watson	20	23	1	2	86.95
	44.1 a high full toss does the job for Australia, Sammy absolutely hammers that, but straight to Hussey at sweeper cover, he really blasted that one, pity about the placement, the umpires discuss whether that full toss was above waist high, they decide it's okay, Sammy's got to go 215/6
NO Miller	c Ponting b Hauritz	4	7	0	0	57.14
	46.4 Hauritz strikes, Miller looks to swipe the ball beyond midwicket, a top edge sends the ball towards Ponting at midwicket, simple catch 225/8
KAJ Roach	c Johnson b Hauritz	3	8	0	0	37.50
	46.5 another wicket for Hauritz, Roach swings the bat at a ball outside off, edges it towards Johnson at short third man 225/9
GC Tonge	not out	0	0	0	0	-
DM Richards	absent hurt	-
Extras	(lb 19, w 16, nb 1)	36
Total	(all out; 46.5 overs)	225	(4.80 runs per over)

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