WI vs AUS | Gung-ho Green, David, and Owen help Australia end Caribbean tour with pefect 8-0 record

Australia completed a clean sweep of tosses with an eighth consecutive coin flip triumph and once again chose to bowl first. Shai Hope threatened a rapid start with two boundaries to begin the second over but Ben Dwarshius came up with a brilliant riposte to clean up the former skipper. Dwarshius doubled down by scalping Brandon King in his next over after the opener had been dropped by Glenn Maxwell off Aaron Hardie, but the veteran made it up to the all-rounder by clinging onto Keacy Carty's catch and sent him packing for a horrid one off eight balls. Nevertheless, Sherfane Rutherford ensured the hosts manage to take soething out of the powerplay with four boundaries and a maximum towards its end to leave the six-over score reading 49/3. The power-hitter then added a couple more fours even after the field spread but just when the momentum was shifting, Rutherford tried a shot too many and was comprehensively castled by Maxwell for a 17-ball 35. The visitors thus found themselves cruising at 84/4 at the halfway stage, with Jason Holder new at the crease and Shimron Hetmyer beginning to catch fire. The latter kept his spree going with a massive strike of Dwarshius in the 11th over, inspiring his senior partner to join in with a six and four of his own against Hardie. However, Holder could not keep up the fun as he promptly nicked behind off Sean Abbott and once Nathan Ellis bowled Romario Shepherd for a run-a-ball eight, the Windies were left reeling at 128/6 with five overs to go. It took a final burst from Hetmyer as he brought up a 30-ball fifty with and brief cameos from Matthew Forde and Akeal Hosein to take the score to 170 before the team folded out with two balls to spare.

In response, skipper Mitchell Marsh began the chase with authority by pumping Jediah Blades for three boundaries in the opening over but Holder struck back by dispatching Maxwell for a golden duck with his very first ball. Josh Inglis tried to follow his captain's template with two boundaries in the very same over, his rush allowing Holder to make it a double-wicket over. An unplayable nipbacker from Alzarri Jospeh two balls later sent Marsh ambling to the dugout to and at 26/3, the Windies had seized control of the game. Yet, as has been the story of the series, Tim David took just 12 deliveries to flip the game on its head, smashing four sixes in the process to rack up 30 and leave the match evenly keeled at 67/4 after six overs. His batitng order successor Mitchell Owen took a few balls to get his eye in, ultimately smacking a four off his eighth delivery which triggered a rampage. Matthew Forde had the misfortune of bowling the eighth over which began with a Cameron Green four and ended with 14 runs off Owen's bat, taking Australia past 100 in just the eighth over. The duo added a further 21 in the next over by Blades and by the time Owen holed out off Akeal Hosein for a 17-ball 37, the requirement was already well under run-a-ball. However, the Men from Down Under were in no mood to play it out as Green kept going gung-ho, until the approach brought his demise after a 18-ball 32 in the 12th over. Aaron Hardie thereafter took cognizance of the situation and stitched a sedate 25-run stand with Ben Dwarshius to end up unbeaten on 28 off 25, while Abbott scored the winning boundary with 18 balls to spare to secure a 8-0 result across formats in the tour.