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Port of Spain : The West Indies, led by a ferocious assault from Nicholas Pooran and skipper Rovman Powell confirmed some ominous indicators because the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup co-hosts registered a formidable 35-run victory over Australia of their warm-up fixture in Trinidad on Thursday.
Nicholas Pooran was the star of the present with an excellent 75 because the West Indies posted an enormous complete of 257/4 at Queens Park Oval and that rating proved an excessive amount of for Australia because the Caribbean facet cruised residence to victory forward of their opening match on the T20 World Cup in opposition to Papua New Guinea on Sunday.
Pooran smashed a whopping eight sixes and 5 fours throughout his 25-ball keep and skipper Rovman Powell (52 in 25 balls, with 4 boundaries and 4 sixes), left-hander Sherfane Rutherford (47* in 18 balls, with 4 boundaries and 4 sixes) and opener Johnson Charles (40 in 31 balls with six fours) additionally obtained within the act because the two-time T20 World Cup champions delighted their residence crowd with some scintillating power-hitting.
All of Australia’s bowlers felt the wrath of the West Indies’ top-order, with first-choice spinner Adam Zampa conceding 62 runs from his 4 overs whereas choosing up two wickets. Josh Hazlewood and Ashton Agar additionally conceded 55 and 58 runs respectively of their 4 overs quota.
Australia put up a good present in reply regardless of lacking a number of key gamers, with Josh Inglis (55 in 30 balls, with 5 fours and 4 sixes), Nathan Ellis (39 in 22 balls, with 4 boundaries and two sixes) and Ashton Agar (28 in 13 balls, with 4 boundaries and two sixes) trying essentially the most harmful in what was at all times going to be a troublesome chase because the 2021 T20 World Cup winners completed with 222/7 of their closing warm-up fixture.
Spinner Gudakesh Motie (2/31) and tall pacer Alzarri Joseph (2/44) picked up a pair of wickets every for the hosts.
Within the different accomplished warm-up fixture on Thursday, Namibia narrowly defeated Papua New Guinea by three runs (DLS methodology) following a rain-affected contest in Tarouba.
Papua New Guinea may solely muster 109/7 from their 20 overs, however an impressed spell from Assad Vala (2/17) helped maintain Namibia in contact and the African nation was sitting precariously at 93/6 within the seventeenth over when the match was known as off on the Brian Lara Cricket Academy.
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