Mitchell Starc leads Australia to win with fifer vs West Indies
Updated On: 07 June, 2019 08:59 AM IST | | AFP
Australia pace ace Mitchell Starc claims 5-46 to ensure West Indies fall short by 15 runs of their 289-run target
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Australia pacer Mitchell Starc is ecstatic after dismissing West Indies's Chris Gayle at Nottingham yesterday
Australia extended their 100 per cent start to their World Cup title defence with a 15-run win against the West Indies at Trent Bridge yesterday. Nathan Coulter-Nile (92) hammered the best World Cup score by a number eight as Australia recovered from 38 for four to post 288 all out. Pace bowler Mitchell Starc took five wickets as Australia survived a tense run-chase, featuring 68 from Shai Hope, to restrict the West Indies to 273 for nine and make it two successive.
WI pacers on fire
Earlier, the West Indies fast bowlers ripped through the Australian top-order in a brilliant spell before Steve Smith and the record-breaking Nathan Coulter-Nile led a stunning fightback to power the defending champions to 288 all out in their World Cup match. Sent into bat, the Aussies were in trouble against the short-pitched deliveries unleased by the West Indian fast bowlers, who extracted a lot of bounce and seam movement initially from the Trent Bridge track. The Australians, who had easily beaten Afghanistan in their first match, lost four quick wickets for just 38 runs in the eighth over with Aaron Finch (6), David Warner (3), Usman Khawaja (13) and Glenn Maxwell (0) falling cheaply.
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