West Indies on Sunday slumped to their second successive defeat in the three-match ODI series against Australia. The Shai Hope-led side faltered once again in the AUS vs WI 2nd ODI, losing by 83 runs to hand Australia an unassailable lead of 2-0 in the 3-match series. West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl, restricting Australia to 258. Despite the very achievable target, none of the West Indies batters could really get in and the team was bundled out for 175.
Australia’s batters were poor by their standards in the AUS vs WI 2nd ODI. A number of Aussie batters had good starts to their innings, but failed to convert the starts into big scores. Cameron Green scored 33 before getting out, Marnus Labuschagne scored 26 and Matt Short scored 41 but none of them went on to get big scores.
All-rounder Sean Abbott put in a late charge with his 63-ball 69 to ensure Australia went past the 250 mark. The Aussies finished their innings at 258/9, and looked in a spot of bother.
However, West Indies could not capitalise on Australia’s batting failure as they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Keacy Carty top-scored for the West Indies with 40 but other batters crumbled under pressure.
Sean Abbott was impressive with the ball too, taking 3 wickets, so did Josh Hazlewood.
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