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1
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Match Details
AUS vs WI 1st T20, AUS vs WI 2021
AUS
127-1016.0
West Indies won by 18 runs
WI
20.0145-6
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So, that is it from me, Karthik Raj and my co-commentators, Aryasekhar Chakraborty and Arijit Kundu. Do stay tuned to OneCricket's live coverage of a lot more cricket matches.
Nicholas Pooran: What a game. First game as captain, wasn't expecting it. We didn't get as much as we wanted. We asked the guys for energy and that's what we got. After the first two overs, we wanted to assess and it's tough to go with proper momentum. Russ coming and finishing off, what better than that today. Can't give them (bowlers) enough credit. They (Australia) came out firing, but we asked the bowlers to attack and keep asking questions.
Aaron Finch: "I thought our bowlers did a fantastic job particularly in the Powerplay. Anytime you lose 6 for 19, you're gonna struggle to win a T20 game. So we just needed somebody to take it upon themselves and get right through to the end. I think we needed under 4 an over for the majority of that last bit, so very disappointing. After the position that Marsh and Wade got us into, just a bit of game smarts would have got us over the line there but sort of panicked a little bit. We've been working on trying to be a little more aggressive in the middle overs but maybe just need to rein it in today and have some more smarts. I thought the wicket played a little better batting second. There's no excuses for our batting display there. You've got to dust yourselves off and come again with the same attitude but just execute a little bit better under pressure."
McCoy: "It feels great. I've been working really hard. It was just all about execution and sticking to the team plan. Normally on that surface the ball has nice bounce and carry but I was just trying to mix up my pace as much as I can. I noticed the spinners were getting a bit of turn so I thought my slower balls would grip. We were confident and knew we had the bowling to back it and just knew we had to go out and fight hard."
Obed McCoy has been named as the 'Player of the Match'.
Time for the Post-match Presentation
However, Mitchell Marsh reached his first-ever T20I fifty in the 12th over. Until, Marsh was there in the middle, Australia remained the favourites but Hayden Walsh got his prized scalp in the very next over. Left-arm seamer Obed McCoy took a splendid return catch to send back Ashton Agar while Hayden Walsh came back to dismiss Daniel Christian as Australia slipped to 125-8. McCoy didn't take much time to finish off the job as he got the final two wickets to bowl Australia out for 127.
Wade got stuck into Fidel Edwards and raced onto 33 off 14 balls before getting out off Andre Russell's bowling in the 4th over. A couple of overs later, Josh Philippe became Obed McCoy's first wicket but Moises Henriques struck a couple of sixes in the same over. Henriques had a quick-fire 36-run partnership with Mitchell Marsh but Allen came back to remove his wicket. Thereafter, Australia started to collapse as Ben McDermott also fell after making just two runs.
Obed McCoy has sealed a stunning comeback from the West Indies!! At the half-way mark, no one would have believed that Australia would lose but they have done exactly that by a margin of 18 runs. McCoy ends with four scalps to continue his fantastic run in the format but Australia will have a lot of soul searching to do after this unexplainable collapse. Fabian Allen dismissed the Aussie skipper Aaron Finch early on but Matthew Wade got off to a rapid start.
OVER 16.0
Australia
127/10
Adam Zampa
1(2)
Obed McCoy
4-26(4.0)
15.6 O McCoy to J Hazlewood
W And that's it, West Indies have won the game from nowhere. Unreal scenes here. Knicked and gone. A remarkable effort from the Windies bowlers and ends up winning by 18 runs. McCoy bowls it back of a length outside off and Hazlewood ends up getting an outside edge straight to the captain Nicholas Pooran behind the stumps and jubilations for the stand-in skipper and Co. What an effort, this is some turnaround to be honest.
15.5 O McCoy to A Zampa
1 Works away the slower full delivery on the leg stump down the square leg region for a single.
15.4 O McCoy to M Starc
W Fabian Allen you beauty, what a catch and Obed McCoy comes into the act yet again. This is now West Indies' game to lose now. McCoy sticks to his plan and bowls his stock delivery the back of the hand slower one and Starc tries to heave it over the midwicket fielder. Doesn't get all of it and Fabian Allen makes a stunning effort, runs in from a distance and clings onto a stunner. What a turnaround this has been. Quite stunning. Starc should have done better there, should have kept in mind that he was hitting towards the wind.
15.3 O McCoy to M Starc
0 Another dot ball, world-class bowling from the left-armer. He is sticking to his plans and Starc unable to get that away, fuller length outside off and a bit of extra bounce and Starc misses the attempted cut.
15.2 O McCoy to M Starc
0 Another slower delivery from McCoy, Starc was trying to wind up and go big but adjusts his shot at the last moment. Blocks it off the frontfoot.
Karthik: What an incredible outing on his comeback game. Hayden Walsh finishes with figures of 3-23. He has turned this game on the head.
15.1 O McCoy to M Starc
0 Well well well, Obed McCoy is having a wonderful time with the ball. Again the back of the hand full slower ball outside off and no one seems to pick that. Starc is a bit too early into the shot and doesn't make any contact.
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