World T20 2012: Australia vs West Indies semi-final live score updates, blog
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Australia v West Indies R.PREMADASA STADIUM, OCTOBER 5, 2012 Semi Final 2 (F1 v E2) - AUS v WIN |
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| West Indies 1st Inn | 4/205 |
| Australia 1st Inn | 131 All Out |
| West Indies won the toss and elected to bat | |
| West Indies won by 74 runs | |
| Australia | Over:16.4 RR:7.86 | ||||
| Batsmen | Runs | B | 4s | 6s | SR |
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| XJ Doherty | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 128.57 |
| MA Starc* | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 |
| West Indies | |||||
| Bowlers | O | M | R | W | Econ |
| R Rampaul* | 3.4 | 0 | 16 | 3 | 4.36 |
| SP Narine | 3.0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | 5.67 |
| Recent Overs: | ||
| 1 1 6 1 . 2 | | 4 . . . 1 1 | | 1 1lb . 2 1wd 2 1 | |
| Last Wicket: | Starc, 2 (BWD:Rampaul) |
| Current Partnership: | 10 runs, 9 balls, RR:111.11 |
Australia will look to make it two finals in a row at the World T20 when they take on West Indies on Friday for the second semi-final at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo. The match starts 11.30 pm Australia time.
The last time Australia and West Indies met in this tournament, rain played a big role in deciding the result. West Indies battered the Aussie bowlers before Shane Watson returned the compliment.
Inclement weather stopped play after nine overs of the Australian innings, at which stage they were ahead of the West Indies. Duckworth-Lewis decided the fate of that game in Australia’s favour.
Since then, Australia dispatched their opponents in two successive Super Eights games and went down in the third match.
Chasing moderate scores against India and South Africa, Watson delivered with the bat in both matches to help Australia notch up big wins.
In match they didn’t actually have to win to make it to the semi-final, Australia lost to Pakistan by aplenty. Coincidentally, it was also the only game where Watson was dismissed early.
George Bailey denied there was any correlation between Watson’s no-show with the bat and the Australian loss. Bailey’s statement apart, calling Australia highly dependent on Watson with the bat and the ball is a no-brainer.
Michael Hussey’s batting against Pakistan assured that Australia would go through to the semi-finals without too many hiccups. With the middle-order having not been tested, his form will reassure the dressing room, but how the others go could decide the game.
The Australian bowling should remain the same. With the tracks showing signs of dying out, Xavier Doherty and Brad Hogg will be crucial against a batting line-up that loves to go hard at the ball.
Among the four semi-finalists, West Indies is the only one to have gotten there with only two wins in their five games. They won nothing in the first round, started with a victory against England in the Super Eights, before going down to Sri Lanka.
Needing a win to enter the semi-finals, they were taken to the Super Over by New Zealand but Chris Gayle batted the West Indies into the last-four stage.
It has been the case of two halves for West Indies. The batting has done its job in most games, but the bowling has leaked runs.
Gayle has been ably supported by Johnson Charles at the top, Marlon Samuels in the middle and the rest of the lower-middle order has gotten themselves that quick-fire few to get themselves into strong positions.
The bowling has been a tad iffy. Sunil Narine, after a couple of lacklustre games, came into his own against New Zealand. How the others bowl around him is a question-mark.
West Indies will look to go into the game with two spinners, Samuel Badree will support Narine. Marlon Samuels bowled with a lot of pace last game and might want to slow it down against a side that relishes speed.
Australia enter the game as favourites.
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2:50am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:50am | Report comment
Chris Gayle is the man-of-the-match rather expectedly. That is it then for Australia, they have crashed out of the World T20 2012, and this one trophy continues to elude them.
West Indies will play Sri Lanka in the final of the tournament on Sunday in what should be an excellent game.
That’s it from me, it has been a pleasure bringing you this.
2:41am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:41am | Report comment
OUT!
Gone, Rampaul has sent Doherty on his way, and that is the end of the game. West Indies have won it as comprehensively as one could imagine in a World T20 semi-final.
In doing so they have entered their first World Cup final since 1979! Whoa!
2:38am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:38am | Report comment
Four!
A four over mid-off for Doherty, as Narine flights it a tad more in search of his third wicket.
9/127 in 16.
2:34am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:34am | Report comment
OUT!
Hogg’s stay in the tournament is over, stumped off Narine. Will we see more of him in international cricket?
9/121 in 15.1
2:25am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:25am | Report comment
OUT!
That is the end of that then I daresay. Cummins had to go for it against the medium-pacers but this time the slog gets a toe-end of the bat and it lobs up for the mid-off fielder to take a simple one.
8/111 in 13.3
2:22am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:22am | Report comment
OUT!
They had to throw their bats at everything and this time Bailey finds a fielder. He slogs it away but straight to deep mid-wicket, where it is caught this time. Gone for 63 off 29!
7/111 in the 14th.
2:18am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:18am | Report comment
SIX!
Swing of the bat and up she goes over mid-wicket for a six. Bailey continues to make merry, when will the West Indies consider this to be getting into dangerous territories? 6/102 in the 13th
2:13am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:13am | Report comment
Half-century!
That’s Bailey for you, gets to his fifty off only 23 balls. On another day, it would have earned him plaudits around. Have a feeling it may not do so tonight.
6/91 in 11.2
2:12am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:12am | Report comment
Four!
And now a four for Cummins, on his pads and flicked away to the vacant fine-leg region!
Suddenly Australia have gotten themselves to 6/89 in 11 overs. West Indies are not yet in any danger of losing it but something to think about for the Windies.
6/89 in 11.
2:11am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:11am | Report comment
SIX!
Oh Bailey! Look out in the crowds! It was a length ball and Bailey’s blasted it over mid-wicket for a biggie!
6/84 in the 11th, can they eke out some respectability from this?
2:10am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:10am | Report comment
Four!
And again, only this time he should have been caught! The fielder at long-off ran in and the ball went through his hands for a four!
2:09am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:09am | Report comment
SIX!
Four!
Andre Russell is greeted to the bowling crease with two successive boundaries! Suddenly Bailey’s turning it on for the Aussies, hitting both of them over the bowler’s head for a six and a four!
6/74 in the 11th.
2:06am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:06am | Report comment
SIX!
Aah there still is fight in the captain, who slogs it over mid-wicket for a six. Badree’s bowling his fourth.
6/61 in the 10th.
2:04am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:04am | Report comment
Change in bowling here. For some reason, Narine is off and Badree has been recalled.
6/53 in 9.
2:00am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 2:00am | Report comment
Four!
Aah a boundary off the bat of Bailey. We still have hope. Not.
6/49 in 8.
1:56am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:56am | Report comment
OUT!
Goes for the sweep and goes to the pavillion. Wade lasts less than half a dozen deliveries before getting a top-edge to short fine-leg.
Easy catch to the fielder and Australia are 6/43. This is getting shockingly easy.
1:50am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:50am | Report comment
OUT!
Another one goes and Australia are in a hurry to catch that flight back home. Leading edge from Hussey, playing his first game this tournament and Rampaul takes an easy catch.
Five down with only 42 on board. Two wickets for the bowler.
1:48am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:48am | Report comment
Change in bowling but no change in luck.
Australia lose their fourth as Cameron White nicks one down the leg-side to Ravi Rampaul.
This is fast losing its fizz, the semi-final and Bailey might not have an answer to the pesky question – are the Aussies over-dependent on Shane Watson.
Unless, of course, the captain can himself do something miraculous.
4/42 in the seventh.
1:46am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:46am | Report comment
Four!
Four!
Two fours in a row off Samuels! The first one was pitched up to the bat to Bailey and drove hard to the left of mid-off. The second one was understandably shorter and he spanked it over the same fielder and it goes away for another four.
3/42 in 6.
1:42am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:42am | Report comment
Three runs and a wicket off the Badree over. He has figures of 2/16 in three overs.
3/31 in 5.
1:41am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:41am | Report comment
OUT!
No, no, no, I said it too soon! Watson fails to read that quicker one and attempts a pull, but misses. Like Warner, the ball hits timber and Australia have lost their third!
And a big wicket too.
3/29 in the fifth. Badree gets his second.
1:39am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:39am | Report comment
Four!
Watson gets into the act as he cuts Samuels away to the fence. But the run-rate isn’t as high as they would want at this stage, 2/28 in 4.
Watson needs to bat till the end but more vitally he needs someone at the other end too.
1:35am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:35am | Report comment
OUT!
It’s just got worse for Australia! Hussey goes for a sweep and can only get a top-edge to Samuels. The bowler steadies himself under it and takes a very, very simple catch. And then kicks it away.
Two down Australia and the untested middle-order has a task on hand.
2/22 in 3.1
1:32am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:32am | Report comment
Four!
Four!
Cometh the hour, cometh the Hussey!
Two fours in as many deliveries, one on the off side and one of the leg. He cuts the first one away before nudging a quicker one through the leg-side.
1/19 in the third.
1:31am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:31am | Report comment
Four!
Hussey at three and he pushes it over the mid-off fielder for a four! They need many of those.
1/11 in 2.
1:30am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:30am | Report comment
OUT!
That is one of the worst starts possible for the Aussies, Dave Warner is bowled off Samuel Badree!
It was quicker outside the off stump with a bit of spin and the batsman missed his cut. There was some confusion about whether it was bowled or came off the keeper’s gloves but the replays clarifies everything!
1/3 in 1.
1:12am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:12am | Report comment
So Australia need 206 to win. This is the first score of over 200 in this tournament and what a time to get it! A World T20 semi-final.
It rained sixes for West Indies, 14 of them. Gayle batted through the innings and it was one of the rate occasions when he did not get to a century despite doing that.
Only Brad Hogg’s 0/21 in 3 made for some decent reading. Everyone else was plundered.
Back in 10 with the chase.
1:10am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:10am | Report comment
SIX!
Massacre. Pollard again. Smacks him over the straight boundary. Poor decision to bowl Doherty the last over.
Finally has bit of a revenge in the end does Doherty with Pollard’s wicket but Australia have a mountain to climb.
1:08am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:08am | Report comment
SIX!
Another one and it continues, Pollard’s showing his muscle and for a lot of time this decision to bowl Doherty the last over will be questioned.
3/193
1:08am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:08am | Report comment
SIX!
Polly this time, gets his front foot out of the way and slog sweeps it over mid-wicket for a six.
Doherty is the poor bowler.
1:07am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:07am | Report comment
SIX!
Just in case you were wondering, no Australia isn’t bowling that badly. It is just the Gayle-force doing the talking.
This one, however, was a poor one, a full-toss on his pads and Gayle has sent it over mid-wicket for a six.
3/186 in the last over.
1:04am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:04am | Report comment
Four!
Four!
If Gayle can do it, so can Pollard. The first one is rammed to square-leg where there is another misfield and it beats the fielder. Then he scoops it over the wicket-keeper for another four!
4/178.
1:02am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:02am | Report comment
SIX!
Pitched on his pads and Gayle’s sent it away over the mid-wicket for a six. The man has some power.
He has a lot of power.
3/169 with 10 balls to go.
1:00am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 1:00am | Report comment
Four!
Dug out a yorker there! It was pitched right up to the bat and drilled through mid-wicket by Pollard. How that went to the fence though is a mystery! Beats the square-leg and long-on fielder easily through to the fence.
3/163 in 18 overs. Somewhere between 180 and 190 for them I guess.
12:58am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:58am | Report comment
Four!
Slower from Cummins but Gayle has all the time in the world to point the bat in the direction of the leg-side and slam it away to mid-wicket for another four.
3/158 in the 18th.
12:51am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:51am | Report comment
Four!
Pulled away to the deep square-leg fence for a four. He smelled the blood in the 15th over and is now going after them.
That’s the trouble you have with a batsman like Gayle if you allow him to bat this long.
3/147 in the 17th.
12:47am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:47am | Report comment
Kieron Pollard comes in at the end of that 81-runs stand.
12:47am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:47am | Report comment
OUT!
Gone this time! Tried to hit it over extra-cover but is only able to smack it straight to the fielder and after a bit of a fumble, Bailey takes the catch.
Bravo’s gone for 37, and West Indies look good for another score of 180 against Australia.
12:46am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:46am | Report comment
SIX!
How did that go for a six now! Pitched right up to the bat and it was spanked hard but off the bottom of the bat by Bravo.
For most of the time it looked he would have been caught, instead it sails over!
2/140 in 16th
12:44am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:44am | Report comment
Yep, Gayle has also brought up his half-century, needing only 29 balls for it. For Australia’s sake he needs to get out now.
For everyone else, sit back and enjoy the Gayle show!
12:42am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:42am | Report comment
SIX!
What the. What a six! That has been sent to the second tier of the straight long-on boundary, it was one of those sixes on any of the grounds!
Four!
Follows it up with another deftly guided four through the slips, this is getting horrendous for Australia here.
2/132 in 15.
12:41am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:41am | Report comment
Four!
Drilled to wide long-on for a four. That’s blazed away to the fence for only his second boundary, to Gayle.
12:39am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:39am | Report comment
David Hussey is back on and the sense I get is that there is some dew on the outfield.
12:36am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:36am | Report comment
SIX!
Shot, rocks back on to his back foot and slams it over mid-wicket for a six!
Gayle’s been talking a lot to all his partners.
2/110 in 14th.
12:33am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:33am | Report comment
Four!
Hard, smacking loft over the covers. It is deftly worked round the corner and easily beats the short fine-leg fielder. Through him for a four to Gayle.2/104 in 13.
12:32am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:32am | Report comment
SIX!
Bravo needed that. Watson didn’t. It was pitched right up to the right-handed batsman, batting on 14 from 20 balls.
He smokes it over the long-on for his first six.
2/100 in the 13th.
12:30am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:30am | Report comment
A decent finish to the over by Starc.
2/91 in 12.
That brings the partnership-breaker Watson back. He has been ineffective in his first two.
12:26am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:26am | Report comment
Four! Wides!
This can easily be called poor bowling but you got to give it to the bowler, he is bowling to Gayle!
Starc drifts way down the leg-side and the keeper has no chance of getting to it.
2/89 in 11.1
12:24am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:24am | Report comment
Change in bowling again. Mitchell Starc comes on.
12:23am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:23am | Report comment
Four! Byes!
Full-toss on the off stump and Bravo went for a drive through the covers, but missed. So did keeper Wade and it goes away for a four.
An excellent over in the circumstances, should have only been five runs. Instead it is nine off that over.
2/83 in 11.
12:21am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:21am | Report comment
Hogg was walking in to bowl his third over but Bailey calls up David Hussey. First touch of the ball in the tournament for him.
2/74 in 10.
12:19am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:19am | Report comment
SIX!
Six over long-on. The giant awakens to the possibility of getting his score up by half a dozen off Doherty and he pummels the quicker one outside the off over long-on.
2/71 in the 10th.
12:16am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:16am | Report comment
Four!
Four for Bravo, that inside-out shot yet again. He seems to have mastered it well but the problem was that the long-off should have fielded that. Only two-three steps to his left and he lets that one go!
2/64 in nine.
12:12am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:12am | Report comment
Hogg, who came back after being hit for a six first ball last over, gets another over.
12:12am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:12am | Report comment
A very good over from Australia after that early boundary. Only six from it.
2/59 in 8.
12:09am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:09am | Report comment
Dwayne Bravo comes in now.
12:09am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:09am | Report comment
OUT!
Samuels wasn’t letting up there and he is bowled attempting a not so dissimilar stroke! It was pitched within the stumps and he went for that up and over stroke, misses and it bowled.
26 off 20 for him.
2/57 in the eighth.
12:08am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:08am | Report comment
Four!
Shot! Hard one! Over extra-cover and for four! This is smashing batting from the West Indies and it does not look like the track is as slow as the one yesterday.
1/57 in the eighth.
12:07am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:07am | Report comment
No more spin then. Only couple of overs and it has been replaced by Pat Cummins.
12:06am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:06am | Report comment
That six aside, it is a decent over from Hogg, who concedes only a single more.
West Indies have left that slow start behind and got up to 1/53 in 7.
12:03am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:03am | Report comment
SIX!
The floodgates have opened and how. Hogg is welcomed into the attack with a six straight over the bowler’s head for a maximum!
It was hit flat, hard and goes all the way!
1/52 in the seventh.
12:02am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:02am | Report comment
Change in bowling and time for Brad Hogg to try his luck against the duo.
12:01am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:01am | Report comment
SIX!
Crazy stuff, this one has gone into the second tier at mid-wicket!
On the pads and Gayle gave his short-arm jab – the ball flies over the fence and for a six.
1/46 in 6.
12:00am
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 12:00am | Report comment
SIX!
Doherty had a huge appeal for leg-before against Samuels but the rules it in his favour and the batmsan returns the compliment by bashing it over mid-on.
What’s worse, it goes all the way!
1/39 in the sixth.
11:57pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:57pm | Report comment
SIX!
After many of those attempts he is finally connected. Gayle smashes Watson over extra-cover for a six and it is a typical Gayle blow that would have hurt the ball hard.
1/33 in 5.
11:53pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:53pm | Report comment
Seven off the Cummins over. He has been way more expensive than Starc this tournament.
1/24 in 4.
11:50pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:50pm | Report comment
Four!
Shot sir! Pitched up at some pace and Samuels creams it through the extra-covers for a four!
When in flow, Samuels can match any batsman shot for shot.
1/23 in the fourth.
11:49pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:49pm | Report comment
Marlon Samuels comes in at one drop. Patrick Cummins comes in to replace Watson.
11:45pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:45pm | Report comment
OUT!
Far too many of those airy-fairy swishes and Mitchell Starc finally gets his man. Again giving himself room and trying to go for a drive over the covers, gets only an outside edge and is easily taken by Kamran Akmal behind the stumps.
Early wicket for Australia but as we had seen yesterday, the bowlers need to keep chipping in.
1/16 in the 3rd.
11:41pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:41pm | Report comment
Four!
Another one! Opens his feet, gives that room to himself and lofts him to the right of mid-on…the fielder gave chase but no way he was catching that.
0/12 in 2.
11:40pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:40pm | Report comment
Four!
Finally a shot in aggression. Length ball from Watson and Johnson, frustrated by all those pokes and prods, gives it an almighty thwack.
There was a fielder at deep square-leg but it was hit way to his right and that has gone almost all the way!
0/8 in second
11:36pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:36pm | Report comment
Shane Watson bowls the second over. And after a single off the first ball, Gayle gets his first bite at the cherry.
11:36pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:36pm | Report comment
End of a decent first over. There was a wide bowled, and a single off the last ball. Which also means that Gayle remains at the non-striker’s end!
0/2 in 1.
11:32pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:32pm | Report comment
Mitchell Starc will open the bowling for Australia – no Watson, no Doherty and certainly no Maxwell (because he isn’t in the side)
Johnson Charles will face the first ball with Gayle at the non-striker’s end
11:30pm
IWishIWasMarkWaugh said | 11:30pm | Report comment
Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the World T20 2012 semi-final between West Indies and Australia.
The news from Colombo is that West Indies have won the toss and decided to bat first.
Dwayne Bravo comes into the side in place of his brother Darren Bravo.
For Australia, Glenn Maxwell has been replaced by David Hussey.