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West Indies vs Australia Scorecard, 1st ODI, Australia vs West Indies 2024
Result · Feb 02 2024, Fri - 09:00 AM (IST)
WEST INDIES231
AUSTRALIA232/2
Australia won by 8 wickets
CRR:6.03
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | West Indies in Australia 2024 |
| Date: | Feb 02 2024, Fri - 09:00 AM (IST) |
| Country: | Australia |
| City: | Melbourne |
| Venue: | Melbourne Cricket Ground |
| Toss: | Australia won the toss and elected to bowl. |
| Australia Playing XI: | Travis Head, Josh Inglis (wk), Cameron Green, Steve Smith (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Matt Short, Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Xavier Bartlett, Lance Morris, Adam Zampa |
| West Indies Playing XI: | Justin Greaves, Alick Athanaze, Keacy Carty, Shai Hope (c) (wk), Kavem Hodge, Roston Chase, Romario Shepherd, Matthew Forde, Hayden Walsh, Gudakesh Motie, Oshane Thomas |
- Australia have won 12 of their last 14 men’s ODIs against West Indies (L2), including a six-wicket victory in their most recent meeting (26 July 2021).
- Australia have lost each of their last two multigame bilateral men’s ODI series (1-2 v India – September 2023 and 2-3 v South Africa – September 2023); the last time they lost more such series in succession was a span of six from February 2017 to January 2019.
- West Indies defeated England 2-1 in their most recent multigame bilateral men’s ODI series (December 2023); they will be aiming for back-to-back wins in such series for the first time since December 2007.
- Australia defeated England by 221 runs in their most recent men’s ODI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (22 November 2022), snapping a three-match losing run at the venue; they will be aiming for back-to-back wins in the format at the MCG for the first time since December 2016 (9 consecutive wins).
- Australia have made a strong connection on 15% of their balls faced in men’s ODIs since the beginning of 2023, the highest rate of any Test playing country in that time and three percentage points more than West Indies (12%).
- Australia (42.3) and West Indies (42) have the highest bowling averages during the powerplay of any Test playing countries in men’s ODIs since the beginning of 2023.
- Marnus Labuschagne (49) is one away from reaching 50 appearances for Australia in men’s ODIs; he scored an unbeaten half-century in his most recent innings (58* v India – 19 November 2023) in the format.
- Shai Hope (16) is one away from equaling Desmond Haynes (17) for the third most hundreds for West Indies in men’s ODIs; he’s scored six centuries in the format since the beginning of May 2022 – only Virat Kohli (7 for India) has logged more in that time.
- Roston Chase (West Indies) has a batting good connection rate of 79.5% from 156 balls faced in men’s ODIs since the beginning of 2023, the third best of any player (min. 90 balls faced) from a Test playing country in that time (Babar Azam – 80.8% of 1,258 balls faced for Pakistan and Shubman Gill – 80.2% of 1,502 balls faced for India).
- Adam Zampa (Australia) has faced 102 deliveries in men’s ODIs since the beginning of 2023, the second most of any player from a Test playing country with a batting leave percentage of 0% (Phil Salt – 157 balls faced for England).