Australia v West Indies | CT 2009 | Johannesburg | 26/9/09

[Afridi_Fan]

Windies won the toos and elected to field at Jo'Berg.

Australia v West Indies, ICC Champions Trophy, 2009: September 23, 2009

Venue: Wanderers

Stats say: (last five completed matches, most recent first)

Australia - LWWWW
West Indies - LLLLNR

Pitch :


Australia squad

SR Watson, TD Paine†, RT Ponting*, MEK Hussey, CJ Ferguson, CL White, JR Hopes, MG Johnson, B Lee, NM Hauritz, PM Siddle

West Indies squad
DM Richards, ADS Fletcher, DS Smith, TM Dowlin, FL Reifer*, DE Bernard, DJG Sammy, CAK Walton†, NO Miller, KAJ Roach, GC Tonge

Match scheduled: Hours of play (local time): 09.30 start, First Session 09.30-13.00 Interval 13.00-13.45, Second Session 13.45-17.15

Toss : West Indies have won and elected to field

Weather report (BBC/weathercity.com)
15C and sunny

 

[Afridi_Fan]

No M. Clarke in Aussies side.

 

[UP]

Should be a walk in a park for the Aussies.

 

[Rizie]

I hope Windies upset the aussies (which is almost impossible)

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Watson bowled 1st ball.

 

[Cheguvera]

What a fool...he is standing there pleading with the umpire that he thought it was a trial ball....
This punk would fit right into lankan XI...

 

[amarmak]

Roach: The fastest bowler in ICC champions trophy.

THATS FAAAAST!!!!!

 

[Cheguvera]

Roach is pretty nippy...pakistanis lucked out he didn't play against them...surprised Watson the 8 year old cry baby with pace and followed that up with 148.1 KPH ball to Ponting..

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Aus 4/1 after 1 over.

 

[who_dares]

any1 sensing upset???

 

[kingusama92]

Wow Roach cranking up the pace to 150 there.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Roach is fast.

 

[WNC]

Yeah he is, just clocked 150.6 kmh

 

[amarmak]

94 mph.... fastest till now

 

[amarmak]

make that 94.4 mph

wow thats the first 95mph bowler ive seen in years

 

[Afridi_Fan]

This guy should be in regular Windies team, Roach.

 

[kingusama92]

Roach really cranking it up. He's going to be a great bowler for them in the future. West Indies certainly have a few positives already to take away from this tourney in their fast bowlers.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Ricky knows how to play on such tracks. Awesome player.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Walton drops one.

 

[hasanb]

damn shane watson cost me 10 points...!

 

[Rizie]

tim paine is so lucky

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Paine gone.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

50 for Punter.

 

[the true passionist]

Australia understand the value of run rate, and are building up towards inflicting a massive defeat on the W Indies ensuring that they qualify after winning one game out of IND or PAK.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Hussey goes.

 

[the true passionist]

Ponting really showing how to bat on pitches with bounce.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Punter goes, Nikita Miller gets the big fish.

 

[the true passionist]

150 up. Will the windies even reach this score?

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Whie goes, Miller strikes again.

 

[Usman Chadda]

Nikita Miller. Wow. Thats two beauties to two inform batsmen (Ponting and White). Australia in a bit of bother, 162/5

 

[Momo]

Well done Nikita!

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Ferguson goes, Roach strikes.

 

[Usman Chadda]

Callum Ferguson gone now. Drags on a quick Roach delivery. Australia struggling big time

164/6!

 

[Momo]

Another gone! Australia imploding here.

 

[Sheikh]

Bowl them out for 200 and it's game on.

 

[the true passionist]

Will AUS collapse to under 200?

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

haaa good bowlin by roach

 

[Momo]

Australia's best batsman (MJ) on the crease.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Hopes goes.

 

[Oxy]

Aus getting a bit of a beating here!

170-7

 

[Momo]

Australia's Hopes gone as well!

 

[Momo]

Aus getting a bit of a beating here!

170-7

And if you consider Ponting scored 79 out of this sorry score ...

 

[Oxy]

I packed my Fantasy team with Aussies today...jokers!

 

[Afridi_Fan]

2/24 in his spell by Miller.

 

[Momo]

I packed my Fantasy team with Aussies today...jokers!

Oh well that explains it then.

 

[checkers.llvllaster]

WI stand a real chance here if they fold the Australians under 185, and specially, if their openers give them a good start...

 

[JeeraBlade]

I packed my Fantasy team with Aussies today...jokers!

I did not "pack" my team with these idiots but I did not pick any West Indian.

Last 12 overs 29-4.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Come on asad rauf

 

[Momo]

Asad Rauf gets one wrong. MJ executes a majestic pull. The bowler dislocates his shoulder.

In unrelated events.

 

[Momo]

I did not "pack" my team with these idiots but I did not pick any West Indian.

I guess I did the smart thing. Instead of packing my team with idiots, I packed two slices of bread with cream cheese, and I must say the combination gave immense satisfaction.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Batting Powerplay taken.

 

[Momo]

Australia's premier batsman taking the WI bowlers to the cleaners.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

I am unable to see live at the moment just auto-scaning the channels on my laptop, so that I don't have to do when Pakistan plays against India.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

Lee run out.

 

[Momo]

Magnificient fifty for MJ. Well played!

 

[Momo]

Celebrates it with another SIX.

 

[Oxy]

Monster hitting from MJ!

262-8

 

[Muhammad]

Magnificient fifty for MJ. Well played!

Some excellent hitting from him, I think Aussies had enough runs when Ponting was out but still he's saved Aussies from some embarrassment.

Unfortunate that Rauf helped him along though!

 

[Oxy]

70 in the last 30 balls!

 

[Oxy]

Hauritz joins in!

266-8

 

[karachiite]

Would have been good for the RR situation if Windies made this a close game but looks unlikely now after this assault by Johnson.

 

[Oxy]

275-8 off 50 overs

 

[karachiite]

Pitch seems to have flattened out now though.

 

[Afridi_Fan]

276 to win for Windies.

 

[the true passionist]

Asad Rauf batted for Australia. Could have easily been a good contest.

 

[HuZi]

johnson if he would have been given out it would been a other match ... but loved top see him hit those biggies

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

Asad Rauf batted for Australia. Could have easily been a good contest.

dont be too hard on him...he is normally a good umpire...but yes it is unfortunate that an attacking batsman like johnson got a life

 

[s.nazir]

Thanks to Jhonson, i can sit back relax and watch pak vs india without having to check the windies vs aus score

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

Thanks to Jhonson, i can sit back relax and watch pak vs india without having to check the windies vs aus score

hey is there a link to see pak india match.......unfortunately i may not see it due to windies/auss bein shown

 

[s.nazir]

Star Cricket's telecasting it

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

4444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444 for devon off first ball

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

4 moreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Would've been 3 consecutive fours if Hussey hadn't stopped that

 

[Deewana Mastana]

9 off the first 4 balls

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Wide ball

10 off 4 balls

 

[Inswinging Yorker]

11 off this over so far

 

[Deewana Mastana]

11 off the 1st over for WI

Good start!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Its a good move by WI to send Devon Smith as opener with Fletcher as he's one of the experienced ones in the side!

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Peter Siddle is on

 

[Deewana Mastana]

Fletcher needs to rotate the strike but he's finding it hard already