Michael Clarke held is nerve and chose his bowlers very well in the thirlling 1 run victory against West Indies and to take 4-0 lead in the 5 match ODI Series.
West Indies needed 28 in the last five overs. With experienced Chandrapaul in the crease and 6 wickets in hand, any team would have won it, in fact, West Indies would have won it 9 out of 10 times.
Lee's over costed 6 and Hopes next over added 9 to the total. Findlayhit a huge six over long on and that reduced the tension in the West Indies camp.
Lee got Findlay caught brilliantly by Michael Hussey bowled and more importantly gave away just 1 run.
Last two overs 12 runs, 5 wickets in hand. Bracken bowled the penultimate over and had Chanderpaul clean bowled through a slow off cutter in the last ball. West Indies scored 4 runs in that over.
Last over, 8 runs needed, 4 wickets in hand. Shane Watson gave single in all the ball. The last ball required 3 runs and they scored a single of the last ball.
The surprise was that no one tried to slog it because they had the wicket anyway. They didn't take the risk and lost the match in hand.
In the presentation ceremony, Gayle said, "We thought we could have got it. I should have carried on and saw the team home. The support was very good. I apologise for the loss."
Clarke said, "Ricky can get it [captaincy] back! The guys did a fantastic job. Gayle played really well but full credit to the guys who hung in there. Every body who gets a chance to play to Australia love it and cherish it."
Match: 4th ODI
Venue: Warner Park, Basseterre, St Kitts
Date: July 4, 2008
Teams: West Indies and Australia
Captains: CH Gayle and MJ Clarke
Toss: West Indies won the toss and decided to field
Result: Australia won by 1 run
Series: Australia leading 4-0
Man of the Match: A Symonds off Australia
Score:
Australia 282 for 8 in 50 overs (SE Marsh 16, SR Watson 20, MEK Hussey 37, MJ Clarke 36, A Symonds 87, DJ Hussey 50, JR Hopes 0, L Ronchi 12, B Lee 7 not out, MG Johnson 0 not out, Extras--17 (lb 7, w 7, nb 3), FH Edwards 10-0-53-2, DBL Powell 10-1-66-2, DJ Bravo 10-0-57-1, DJG Sammy 4-0-18-1, MO Miller 10-1-56-1, CH Gayle 6-1-25-1) beat West Indies 281 for 6 in 50 overs (CH Gayle 92, XM Marshall 0, RR Sarwan 63, S Chanderpaul 53, DJ Bravo 31, SE Findlay 9, D Ramdin 5 not out, DJG Sammy 3 not out, Extras--25 (lb 6, w 17, nb 2), B Lee 10-0-64-3, NW Bracken 10-0-50-1, MG Johnson 10-0-40-0, JR Hopes 10-0-63-1, DJ Hussey 2-0-20-0, SR Watson 7-0-33-1, MJ Clarke 1-0-5-0)
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