The first of three One Day internationals between West Indies and Australia takes place in Barbados on Tuesday and we take a look at the squads, recent form and the all important betting
West Indies have just completed a 4-1 series win in the T20's and the teams now move on to the 50 over format. All 3 of the matches in this series will be staged at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown and we begin with a look at the squads
West Indies: Kieron Pollard (c), Shai Hope, Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Anderson Phillip, Nicholas Pooran, Romario Shepherd
Australia: Aaron Finch (C), Ashton Agar, Wes Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey, Dan Christian, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Marsh, Riley Meredith, Ben McDermott, Josh Philippe, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa
Recent Form
West Indies
West Indies completed a 3-0 clean sweep of Sri Lanka in a home series in March this year, winning by margins of 8 wickets and then 5 wickets (twice). Prior to that they lost 3-0 in Bangladesh in January.
Australia
This will be Australia's first ODI action since they beat India 2-1 in a home series at the back end of last year whilst last September they were 2-1 winners in England.
Recent Head to Head
The teams last met in the 2019 World Cup in England and Australia won a pool stage match by 15 runs.
The last series between these teams came in West Indies in June 2016 and Australia were 3-1 winners.
The Venue: Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados
Since 2016 West Indies have won 4 and lost 4 of the 8 ODI's staged at this venue. Australia beat Australia in a 2 matches in the 2016 series.
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The Betting
West Indies are currently trading at around 8/10 to win the game and Australia can be backed at around even money
West Indies are 11/20 to hit the most sixes and they are 8/10 to post the highest first 15 overs total
Shai Hope is 5/2 favourite to top score for West Indies. Aussie skipper Aaron Finch is 3/1 favourite top be top bat for the visitors.
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
The Verdict
West Indies have not been fielding full strength sides in their recent ODI's and although they beat a poor Sri Lanka team comfortably enough and welcome some key men back into the fold, I'm open minded about the match result.
I will go with Aussie skipper Finch to top score for the visitors. Although Mitchell Marsh was easily Australia's top run scorer in the T20 series Finch did make a half century and also chipped in with a knock of 34. In the longer format he gets my vote.
My gut feel is it could be a reasonably high scoring game so additional interest comes in the shape of any century to be scored
Bets: Top Australia Bat Aaron Finch at 3/1
Century to be scored in the match? (yes) at 11/10
Note all prices are correct at the time of writing but are subject to change
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