ODIs - Aussies v. Windies

[Donny]

Hauritz, Clarke get their chance
AAP - 21 May 2003

Young players Nathan Hauritz and Michael Clarke will return to one-day international cricket after Australian selectors made two changes for the third match against the West Indies in St Lucia.

Hauritz will replace paceman Brett Lee while Clarke comes in for Adam Gilchrist in the only changes to the team which took a 2-0 lead in the seven-match series in Jamaica last weekend.

Gilchrist and Lee have been rested, enabling Jimmy Maher to take over as wicketkeeper in a relatively young team which has the task of winning Australia's 20th consecutive one-day match.

Batsman Darren Lehmann remained sidelined with a calf injury while all-rounder Ian Harvey was overlooked despite recovering from a stomach muscle problem.

Clarke played his only one-day international in January, making an unbeaten 39 in Australia's victory over England in Adelaide.

The right-handed batsman played one first-class match last month during the Test tour and remained in the Caribbean to replace injured batsman Damien Martyn.

Hauritz has played five one-day matches, but none since September 5 last year when he claimed 4-39 from 10 overs in Australia's tight win over Kenya in Nairobi.

The Queensland off-spinner has spent plenty of days on tour since as part of the Test squad which played Pakistan in Colombo and Sharjah before he was called into the World Cup squad when Shane Warne was banned for taking an illegal substance.

Hauritz will join Brad Hogg as specialist spinners, although Hogg had a sore face after he was struck by a ball during Australia's training session.

A shot from Andrew Symonds bounced off a post and hit Hogg above the lip but he is expected to play.

Maher, who made an unbeaten century in his only first-class appearance for Australia last month, will take the gloves for the third time in one-day internationals.

Lehmann, who injured his calf in the opening match last Saturday, will be reassessed before Saturday's fourth match in Trinidad.

Australia: Ricky Ponting (capt), Matthew Hayden, Jimmy Maher, Michael Clarke, Andrew Symonds, Michael Bevan, Brad Hogg, Andrew Bichel, Nathan Hauritz, Jason Gillespie, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee (12th man).

West Indies: Brian Lara (capt), Ramnaresh Sarwan (v-c), Omari Banks, Carlton Baugh, David Bernard, Corey Collymore, Mervyn Dillon, Vasbert Drakes, Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Ricardo Powell, Devon Smith.

[couragous cloke]

by the look of that i think we're a bit of a chance to steal i game off the aussies. but we need to start the batting innings just as australia do, attack and put the pressure right on the bowlers right from the start.

[zoia]

whens the next odi btw ppl

[Donny]

Tonight, m8.

[HAL]

That is very soon.

[gobbles21]

Great to see the youngsters rotated into the team.

Good Luck Clarkey and Hauritz!

Interesting to see that the West Indies dropped Samuels. He hasn't made many runs but played a couple of good shots in the first 2 one-dayers, and I would have liked to have seen him given 1 more chance.

[Donny]

Lara won the toss and sent the Aussies in. This was not surprising considering they will be batting Samuels at 9. Drakes was left out for reasons known only to their brains trust.

In the 36th over, Australia is 4/178 after Symonds was just bowled by Gayle for 75 from 82 balls. Clarke is batting steadily on 29.

Earlier, Hayden went for 20, Maher, 17 and Ponting, 32.

Symonds and Clarke added 99.

[Donny]

With 7 overs to come, Australia is on 4/210.

Clarke is on 42 and Bevan, 16.

The Windies 'bits and pieces' attack has done well to this stage with the Aussies needing 8 r.p.o. to get near the 270 they would've wanted.

Clarke just went to his 50. He took 9 from that last over.

[HAL]

You and your 7 overs to come Australia is on 4210.

[Donny]

Australia made 4/258. Clarke finished on 75 n.o. from 100 balls and Bevan, 32 from 39. Together they added 80 from 86 balls.

Clarke's innings had some merit but, with wickets in hand, should've hit out or got out in the last 5 or 6 overs.

258 may not be enough.

[Nova Kaine]

Hopefully Aussie's bowlers will be able to lift and bowl them out

[HAL]

Your dream sounds very alluring. . . .

[Donny]

Australia held the Windies to 9/233.

After Smith (9) was caught by Maher from McGrath and Hauritz had removed Sarwan (15) Gayle was looking dangerous with 43 from 46 balls but Hauritz then took his second as Clarke snapped up the first of his three catches.

Lara was now the key. At the first sign of the Windies skipper, Ponting signalled to Bichel to warm up. Sure enough, Bic bowled him for 4.

Hinds and Samuels had added 65 when the Aussies crashed through. Hinds was run out for 42 and three overs later, after Powell had smashed 26 from 11 balls (2 sixes), Gillespie dismissed them, both caught by Clarke, in consecutive deliveries.

Banks and Dillon were both run out and the Windies fell short by 23 runs. Gillespie took 4/48 and Hauritz, 2/50. Clarke was voted Player of the match.

That's now 20 in a row for the Aussies.

[Donny]

Symonds and Clarke in charge as Aussies go three up
Steven Lynch - 21 May 2003

It was an unfamiliar-looking Australian side – no Adam Gilchrist, no Darren Lehmann, no Brett Lee – but by the end of this match, at the beautiful Beausejour Stadium in St Lucia, the tale was rather more familiar. Australia won quite easily by 25 runs, their 20th consecutive one-day victory, and now lead the seven-match series 3-0.

Australia's batting heroes were Andrew Symonds and Michael Clarke, who added 99 together after Ricky Ponting's run-out briefly threatened a wobble. The 22-year-old Clarke, cool and correct, still doesn't have an ODI average after adding 75 not out to the unbeaten 39 he made in his only previous game, against England at Adelaide in January. Sporting more hair than in that innings, Clarke survived for 100 balls here, and worked the ball around well. He hit only five fours, one of them a stand-to-attention pull to midwicket off a short one from Omari Banks, but nonetheless impressed in a mature innings which, when added to three crisp catches later on, won him the Man of the Match award. At the end, as Clarke scampered sharp singles with his fellow New South Welshman Michael Bevan, it was hard to spot who was the renowned one-day finisher and who was the young apprentice.

Symonds also played well, recovering from running out his captain to post a muscular 75, with nine crunching fours, before heaving across a fuller one from Chris Gayle (178 for 4). Ponting had threatened to take charge, and had breezed to 32 before Symonds called him through for a quick single. Corey Collymore, the bowler, pounced on the ball and underarmed it into the stumps. It was a close-run thing, and the third umpire Eddie Nicholls needed a couple of replays before he pressed the red button. That made it 79 for 3, in the 17th over.

Earlier Matthew Hayden had tickled one that bounced a bit from Merv Dillon to Carlton Baugh behind the stumps (25 for 1). It was only the first ball of the fifth over, but Hayden had already clumped four fours in his 20. At the other end Jimmy Maher, given the doubly exacting task of deputising for Gilchrist with both kinds of gloves, had grafted to 17 off 33 balls when he tried to sweep Banks's busy offspin. He only succeeded in popping the ball straight to Devon Smith at short fine leg (48 for 2).

For a while, when Gayle was smashing Jason Gillespie straight for six and clubbing Glenn McGrath for a no-prisoners four, West Indies were in with a chance. But then reality set in – Gayle fell to Nathan Hauritz for 43, Brian Lara was castled by Andy Bichel for just 4, and Australia were favourites again.

Hauritz, the young offspinner from Queensland, made two important incisions. With his second ball he persuaded Ramnaresh Sarwan to drive uppishly to Gillespie at mid-off (67 for 2), then in his next over Gayle cut one straight to Clarke at point (70 for 3). Hauritz had 2 for 3 in eight balls, and Australia were back on top after Gayle's mini-blitz.

Wavell Hinds, restored to the side after being dropped, played his way back to something like form, compiling 42 in 59 balls before he was run out by the length of the pitch immediately after a drinks session (150 for 5). Hinds had put on 65 with Marlon Samuels, whom he had been expected to replace in the side – but a late bout of sickness to Vasbert Drakes handed Samuels an 11th-hour reprieve, and he too regained some form with an obdurate 37 in 65 balls. Ricardo Powell clattered Brad Hogg for an effortless six, and Bichel for another, but after bashing 26 from just 11 balls he flat-batted Gillespie to Clarke at deep cover (181 for 6). Next ball Samuels slashed the same bowler to the same fielder, and the game was as good as up.

The first to go had been Smith, caught behind by Maher while attempting to run McGrath down to third man (20 for 1). But the key wicket, as always, was Lara's: attempting a cross-batted heave at Bichel, he succeeded only in dragging the ball into his stumps (85 for 4). It was the sixth time Bichel had dismissed Lara in ODIs, and it derailed West Indies' chances of a win here.

[zoia]

the aussies are just too good