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The West Indies team is currently on a tour of Australia, where they managed to end the 2-match Test series with a 1-1 draw. Now in the first match of the three-match ODI series, the West Indies team had to face a crushing defeat by 8 wickets. In this match played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, the West Indies team, batting first, was limited to only 231 runs in 48.4 overs. After this, the Kangaroo team achieved the target at the loss of 2 wickets in 38.3 overs on the basis of unbeaten half-centuries by captain Steve Smith and Cameron Green. In this match, fast bowler Xavier Bartlett got a chance to debut for Australia and he achieved a big feat by taking 4 wickets.
Became the second bowler to do so for Australia
The Australian team, playing in this 3-match ODI series under the captaincy of Steve Smith, gave right-arm fast bowler Xavier Bartlett a chance to debut in international cricket in the first match. After this, in his very first over, he made the opening batsman of West Indies team Justin Greaves his victim and after this he also got the wicket of Alik Athanaze. Along with taking 2 more wickets, Xavier took 4 wickets in this match while giving only 17 runs in 9 overs of bowling. With this, Bartlett has now become the second bowler to bowl such brilliantly in the debut match for Australia. Bartlett is the fifth bowler to take 4 or more wickets in his first match for Australia.
Steve Smith played captaincy innings and returned after leading the team to victory.
Talking about this match, the Australian team, which was chasing the target of 232 runs, lost its first wicket in the form of Travis Head at the score of 4. After this, Josh English and Cameron Green made a partnership of more than 50 runs for the second wicket. On the score of 83, the Kangaroo team lost its second wicket in the form of English, who returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 65 runs. From here, Smith along with Green worked to take the team towards the target and returned after winning by 8 wickets. While Smith scored an inning of 79 runs, Green also scored an unbeaten 77 runs.
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