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Australia will look to make it two finals in a row at the World T20 when they take on West Indies on Friday for…
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Kieron Pollard comes in at the end of that 81-runs stand.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.
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Four!
Drilled to wide long-on for a four. That’s blazed away to the fence for only his second boundary, to Gayle.
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David Hussey is back on and the sense I get is that there is some dew on the outfield.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Change in bowling again. Mitchell Starc comes on.
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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.
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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.
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