The Hindu : West Indies gets early breakthroughs

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Monday, Jun 02, 2003

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West Indies gets early breakthroughs

ST. GEORGE'S (Grenada) June 1. Australia skipper Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat in the seventh and final one-day international against the West Indies on Sunday.

The West Indies tasted early success when Matthew Hayden (8) was caught by Bernard off the bowling of Mervyn Dillon with the Australian score at 17.

With just one more run added to the score, the Australians lost their vice-captain Adam Gilchrist, bowled by Samuels, who incidentally opened the bowling for the West Indies today.

The Australian innings was revived by a 107-run parnership between Darren Lehmann and Andrew Symonds, before Symonds was out, trying to pull Chris Gayle and lobbing a catch to Wavell Hinds in the deep.

At the end of 31 overs, West Indies was 127 for four with Lehmann (55 off 69 balls) leading a lone battle for the Australians.

Earlier, the West Indies announced an unchanged team from Friday when the home side beat the tourists by three wickets. Australia made three changes. Fast bowler Glenn McGrath came in for Andy Bichel, all-rounder Ian Harvey for spinner Nathan Hauritz and batsman Michael Clarke replaced Jimmy Maher. Australia leads the series 4-2.

The teams: West Indies: Chris Gayle, Wavell Hinds, Brian Lara (captain), Ramnaresh Sarwan, David Bernard, Corey Collymore, Mervyn Dillon, Vasbert Drakes, Ridley Jacobs, Ricardo Powell, Marlon Samuels.

Australia: Adam Gilchrist, Matthew Hayden, Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting (captain), Darren Lehmann, Andrew Symonds, Ian Harvey, Brad Hogg, Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie.

Rudi Koertzen and Basil Morgan. Third umpire: Eddie Nicholls — Reuters

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