- West Indies win match by 16 runs and series 4-1
- Three one-day internationals to follow in Barbados
That’s that. A cheerful group of West Indies players get together for photos and trophies. Australia’s first foray anywhere this year has waited until July, and it has ended in heavy defeat. There are three One-Day International matches to follow this, in Barbados next week. We won’t have the OBO running for those, given the timezones aren’t compatible with Australia, but we will have written coverage on the site as ever. That should be a more even contest, where the West Indies power advantage might be less pronounced over the course of 50 overs per innings.
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Nicholas Pooran: “It’s a wonderful achievement, not only for myself but for my team. We’ve worked really hard especially from that last series. We wanted to come here and play proper cricket. Spin is very important, not only for our team but we know in T20 cricket leg-spinners are champs. With a leg-spinner in your team you’re always asking for wickets. To restrict any team you need to get wickets. We’re very happy for Hayden [as player of the series], he works so hard on his bowling the last couple of months and I’m very happy that he’s getting rewards and winning games for us.
[Wryly:] “We wanted them 5-nil. Unfortunately we’ll take 4-1, but we’re thankful. That’s alright. We still come out with a deserved series victory and that has done a lot for our team. Leadership is tough, especially when there’s a lot of information to gather, and you’re not sure what is the correct advice. But there are experts near me, a lot of information was shared, and I’m thankful that I learned different things. I see the game a bit differently now. You just have to have thick skin and keep going forward.”
Aaron Finch: “Mitch Marsh stood out with his first opportunity at number three. The way we defended ourselves during the back half of this innings, we were starting down the barrel of 220, 230, maybe more at one point. To drag it back was impressive. We executed better towards the back end today. AJ Tye tonight changed his pace really well, he got them really wide which was key. In the first ten overs we missed a lot down the middle of the wicket again and Evin Lewis played a hell of a knock. Once good players like that get in, they put so much pressure on you, and we seemed to miss more than normal.
“I think our front half bowling in the other games has been pretty good as well. We just haven’t backed it up with the bat. I think there’s some guys in there with not a huge amount of international experience, when you’re trying to stamp your authority on the game while still finding your feet in international cricket, it can be tough at times. I’m not too critical of them. There’s more experience at the top of the order and we didn’t give them a platform enough.”
Evin Lewis:“Basically I was staying still and watching the ball as it comes to the bat. It means a lot to me. This is my first series against Australia, Australia is normally a strong team. So against these sort of teams you want to do well. We have a lot of confidence going in against Pakistan, but at the same time we don’t want to be overconfident.”
That wraps it up 4-1 for West Indies, a fair reflection of their dominance through the series, even since about 15 overs into the first match. Australia were on top there until Russell blazed a century to put a half-decent score on the board, and the Aussies collapsed in spectacular fashion while needing about 4 an over through the last six or eight overs, finishing all out.
From there they got brutalised by the West Indies batting in the next two matches, and got bowled out again in one of them.
20th over: Australia 183-9 (Swepson 14, Hazlewood 13) He can’t carry Australia to a miracle victory, but Hazlewood gives a good account of himself. A lucky slog to start with, sure, that lands between fielders behind square for two runs. But then he drives Hayden Walsh over cover for four, and swings him beautifully down the ground for six! That’s the best shot of Josh Hazlewood’s career. To end, he sweeps to long on, because Josh Hazlewood can do whatever he likes. Swepson pulls a couple, runs hard for the second even though the game is gone, and West Indies win by 16 runs.
19th over: Australia 168-9 (Swepson 12, Hazlewood 0) Before this series Josh Hazlewood had never batted in T20s for Australia. Now he’s walking out for his third hit in four outings. He needs 32 from the final over. Good luck, big guy.
A diamond duck for Zampa, another little symbol of how poor Australia have been at times during this series. Comes back for a second run after Swepson drives to deep cover. Walsh throws to the bowler’s end. It’s a tight run but Zampa is probably home... except he doesn’t ground his bat. Gets the stride wrong, still airborne as the bails come off.
Cottrell salutes for the third time tonight as Australia’s No9 drives straight to Allen at long off. One of the more casual takes you’ll see in international cricket.
18th over: Australia 165-7 (Swepson 11, Behrendorff 5) Hayden Walsh hasn’t been much required tonight. On to bowl his third over after the game is effectively gone. One wicket from a full toss. Swepson takes the chance to hit his opposing leg-spinner straight for six, because why not live a little?
17th over: Australia 155-7 (Swepson 2, Behrendorff 4) Going through the motions now, with 45 needed from the final three overs.
Cottrell has pace, and it brings Tye undone. Toe of the bat as he tries to pull, the edge hanging over the keeper, who trots back to claim.
16th over: Australia 148-6 (Tye 15, Swepson 1) Swing and hope time for Australia’s tail. Tye is the best of them, and he goes baseball: a line drive between long off and long on for four, then a homer over left field / backward square for six. That’s how you do it.
Russell finishes with 3 for 43, pricey but his wickets have been invaluable, that of Marsh most of all.
Finally Wade gets onto one. Steps into the line of a Russell length ball, just outside off, and clips it off the pad miles into the night sky and down into the crowd. But that’s as far as he goes. The next ball he aims over the off side, gives it everything he has, swinging so hard that his head jerks back on his neck. All of which indicates a lack of control, and he gets an inside edge back onto his stumps.
15th over: Australia 130-5 (Wade 20, Tye 4) Gayle is suddenly Mr Unhittable. Leg bye, singles, then he yorks Wade twice. Two attempted drives, getting nothing on the ball. How can Gayle be so deceptive? He fires the last one into the pad at 103 kilometres an hour! Wade can’t touch it! Swings his bat into pad in frustration as Gayle completes three overs for 9 runs.
14th over: Australia 127-5 (Wade 19, Tye 3) It’s all on Wade now, who clouts Russell into the gap between midwicket and wide long on for four. Tye drags an inside edge off his pads for a couple, gloves a bouncer for one to fine leg. Eight from the over.
73 required from 36 balls. It would take something dramatic.
There it is. The pressure has been building and now it tells. Length ball from Russell, Carey tries to go large down the ground, and doesn’t time it. Hits it high to long off where Lendl Simmons is hanging out.
13th over: Australia 119-4 (Carey 9, Wade 14) Gayle again, his Gandalf beard glowing in the floodlights. Spearing in at the leg stump to deny room, around the wicket to the left-handers, and it works: single, single, dot. But even when he dishes up a full toss Carey hits it back to the bowler. Then cloughs the reverse sweep and Wade refuses a run to point. Can’t afford another run out. Can’t really afford another wicket, with Tye at No7 and the bowlers to come. But they also can’t afford to take three runs off a Chris Gayle over. Three runs!
12th over: Australia 116-4 (Carey 7, Wade 13) Crazy-good shot from Wade! Charges outside his off stump to scoop Russell for four. That ball is outside the blue wide line when Wade makes contact with it, that’s how far across he gets. And the scoop goes almost square, over backward square rather than fine leg as normal. Remarkable to pull that off. Carey premeditates a sweep, and that means he rather wastes a full toss wide of off stump. With his skill through cover he could have placed that to the boundary. Instead he gets a single. Wade goes over cover though, rasped for four!
10 from the over, which is around what they need.84 from 48.
11th over: Australia 106-4 (Carey 6, Wade 4) Gayle gets a bowl. His very slow creak to the crease to deliver off-spin from a great height. Never looks threatening but he has smarts. Lands it well. Singles, then Carey misses the sweep twice: reverse and regulation. Gayle gets through the over for four runs, which is almost criminal for Australia. They need 94 from 54.
10th over: Australia 102-4 (Carey 4, Wade 2) Two left-handed wicketkeepers at the crease, then. They need 98 from 60 balls.
Two in the over! Alex Carey comes out, sweeps a boundary to fine leg, drops a ball to the leg side. Henriques is the one who calls for the run, I think. He takes off from the non-striker’s end. But the ball hasn’t gone very far, and Pooran has time to get out to short cover, shedding one glove on the way, pick up the ball right-handed, spin and hit the stumps direct to beat Moises home.
WHAT A CATCH. That’s up there with the double-header effort between Allen and Bravo. This time it’s Allen alone. Talk about supporting your spin teammate. Walsh bowls a very ordinary full toss. Finch thumps it down the ground where it belongs. Is it going for six or four? Neither. Because from right of frame, burning through the night, 200 degrees that’s why they call him Mr Fahrenheit, Fabian Allen makes a supersonic man out of himself. A blur of maroon, full sprint, full dive, and stretches every sinew to get his left arm out ahead of himself and snare the ball inches above the ground. That was spectacular.
9th over: Australia 93-2 (Finch 32, Henriques 21) Fabien Allen now, in spin combo, and his spin twin Walsh puts in a sizzlingstop at backward point, diving full length to get one hand to an Henriques cut. Four from the Allen over, and even one quiet over can make a difference.
8th over: Australia 89-2 (Finch 30, Henriques 19) Hayden Walsh has been very good this series. Starts a bit rusty though, landing a leg-break wide enough that Henriques can drive it over cover for four. Singles, a wide, 10 from the over. Australia need 9 an over and they’re going at 11. Have to bear in mind the increasing difficulty of scoring though. Need to keep pushing ahead of that rate.
7th over: Australia 79-2 (Finch 29, Henriques 12) Luck comes and goes. Finch gets a beamer just outside the line of his body, so he’s able to guide it through deep third for four. It doesn’t get called as a no-ball though. Would have been picked up on replay had he been dismissed, but there’s no recourse given he wasn’t. Finch is annoyed by the call, taking a moment to recompose himself. No free hit. Unlucky, right? Except that the ball before that, and the ball after that, he nicks Oshane Thomas past the keeper for four. Genuine edges. Luck, hey.
6th over: Australia 66-2 (Finch 17, Henriques 11) Moises Henriques is ducking and weaving around like a boxer against Fabian Allen. Goes leg side to drive the left-arm ortho over cover. Goes off side to scoop him over short fine leg. Finch follows suit, backing away to cut four. They need 10 an over, and they’ve got 13 from that one.
5th over: Australia 53-2 (Finch 13, Henriques 2) Henriques gets a promotion. Russell is just nailing yorkers tonight. As simple as that. Curls a couple into Finch that the skipper can do nothing with. Gives up a boundary with the final ball, full on the pads and Finch can glance four. Still a wicket and seven runs from the over.
Australia need 147 runs in 90 balls.
The Marsh heroics are over. Huge loss for Australia. 30 from 15 balls, but Andre Russell is the other player who has repeatedly bent games to his will in this series. His first ball, yorker length, Marsh digs it out with power but hits it straight back at the bowler. Russell roars and pounds the ball into the ground.
4th over: Australia 46-1 (Finch 8, Marsh 30) West Indies turn to spin, and Marsh keeps hitting boundaries. Gets back quickly to Fabian Allen and sashays the slightly short ball through cover. Gets Finch onto strike, and Finch gets going with a back-cut for four.
3rd over: Australia 34-1 (Finch 1, Marsh 25) A dodgy run to backward point, Marsh would have run out Finch easily had the throw been accurate, but instead it gives up an overthrow and gets Marsh back on strike. Which he uses to pull Cottrell for four. Solid contact through square leg. Then he uses the left-armer’s angle to drive through mid off for four. That was gorgeous. Just smoked it on the front foot.
2nd over: Australia 24-1 (Finch 1, Marsh 15) Out wanders the Golden Bison, and he pulls his second ball for six! Mitch Marsh just stands up tall and gives the full WACA to Oshane Thomas. Fuller but straight, and he clouts off his pads for four, nearly carried for another six. Next ball, outside off, he drives square for four. Imperious. A single makes it 15 off 5.
1st over: Australia 9-1 (Finch 1) Out from the final ball of a chaotic over. Leg bye, wide, single, the only run off the bat. Then Cottrell loses the ball out of his hand while his arm is still coming up behind his back. The ball flies out towards cover. Umpire calls a wide, when landing off the pitch should make it a no-ball, shouldn’t it? Any rate, Cottrell tries to bang in a bouncer last ball of the over. He succeeds in banging in a bouncer, but he also succeeds in having it take off, over Philippe, over Pooran, for five wides. He may consider that a fair trade though because, as happened in the previous innings, the seventh ball brings a wicket. A bouncer more in the batsman’s range, Philippe pulls off the top edge, and midwicket in the ring takes the catch.
Here they come. Philippe and Finch.
A dramatic shift in fortunes, as it was in the previous match. West Indies made 119 for 2 in the first ten overs, then 81 for 6 in the next ten. Aaron Finch observed after the fourth match that scoring got harder as an innings wore on. He’ll need to make a good start, then.
West Indies hit 17 sixes. Lewis made 79 off 34 balls, Gayle 21 off 7, Pooran 31 off 18.
20th over: West Indies 199-8 (Walsh 12, Cottrell 1) Walsh manages to belt the last ball of the innings over cover for six, but given that it was preceded by a couple of singles, a wide, and a wicket, that’s still a very good closing over by Tye. He’s got 3 for 37, an economy rate that is probably about par given the overs he has to bowl.
The angled ball across the left-hander works again, slower ball, Bravo trying to slash over cover, only top edging to short third.
19th over: West Indies 190-7 (Bravo 5, Walsh 5) The Australians have pulled this back so well. Hazlewood bowls a perfect over, never allowing Bravo more than a single, three runs from five balls, Walsh missing a scoop, then Walsh gets a genuine nick from the final delivery, past Wade for four.
18th over: West Indies 183-7 (Bravo 3, Walsh 0) Six from Tye’s over, including three wides.
Darren Bravo coming in very late in the order, not as big a hitter as those who came before. First ball of Tye’s over he’s dropped. Hits it straight to long on but Philippe puts down the routine catch coming forward. Pooran then gets a big leading edge over the bowler. Tye keeps trying to bowl really wide across the left-handed Pooran, being penalised a couple of times when he goes too far. But perhaps that helps, making Pooran wait, so that when Pooran gets a straighter short ball he smacks it to the boundary rider at midwicket.
17th over: West Indies 177-6 (Pooran 29, Bravo 1) Another four-run over. That makes 15 from the last three for Australia. Zampa finishes his night’s work with 2 for 30.
Australia continue applying the dampeners. Adam Dampener? Allen plays a pull shot that limps off the top edge back towards the bowler, bouncing in front. Undeterred, he plays the same shot next ball. Hits it a little better, which means that it carries to Zampa quickly, and the bowler looks pleasantly surprised to have hung onto the reflex catch in front of his collarbone.
16th over: West Indies 173-5 (Pooran 27, Allen 0) No run for Fabian Allen from the one ball he faces. A wicket and four runs from the over, outstanding from Tye.
Huge slog by Pooran and he’s dropped. Tye puts it down off his own bowling. A cross-bat shot, a high top edge out towards square leg, so high that Tye has time to run all the way over there and camp under the ball. It comes down, Tye goes with the fingers pointing up in Australian style, and the ball jars free from his palms. Just wasn’t soft enough with his hands, it looks like.
But he’s mollified from the fifth ball of his over, is Tye, as he bowls a cutter back of a length to Andre Russell, who cuts hard. Alex Carey is used to being a wicketkeeper but is currently out on the boundary at backward point. Russell lands it right into his hands.
15th over: West Indies 169-4 (Pooran 25, Russell 0) Pooran, having crossed, takes a single. Russell defends his first ball. Marsh has got through this over for seven runs. He’s got 2 for 12 on a night when the sixes have rained. Quite the performance.
What do you call a medium pacer with a golden arm? Jacob Aurum? Marsh does it again. Not before Simmons comes to the six party, slogging a low full toss over long on. But Marsh changes to around the wicket against the right-hander, angling it sharply across as a right-armer. It’s a friendly length for Simmons to go over extra cover, but he doesn’t, already stepping across his stumps. Off balance, he tries to hoick over the leg side. A sacrifice play, almost, with Andre Russell due in next. Just has to have a go at everything. But this is the wrong go, and Simmons gives up a loopy catch to point.
14th over: West Indies 162-3 (Simmons 15, Pooran 24) Hazlewood returns with two overs up his sleeve. Bowls this one well, aside from overstepping the crease at one point. But he saves the free hit by conceding a single. Simmons slices a lucky boundary through deep third, then Pooran steps across and misses a flick that misses his leg stump by a centimetre.
Another instance of good umpiring in this series: some umpires would have incorrectly called that a wide for going outside the line of the batter’s pads, but Pooran had moved across from his original stance point, so it’s not a wide.
13th over: West Indies 152-3 (Simmons 7, Pooran 23) Swepson nearly has Simmons stumped first ball of the over, but the right-hander throws his pad outside leg stump in a very yogic fashion and manages to get some pad on the ball. Deflects it just wider of Wade and away for an extra. That brings Pooran on strike, and he’s not here to hang around.
Six, six, six, four, with a wide in between. Two straight hits down the ground, very simple strikes.
12th over: West Indies 127-3 (Simmons 7, Pooran 1) Two runs and a leg bye from Zampa’s overas Australia’s players draw breath.
11th over: West Indies 124-3 (Simmons 6) What an innings from Lewis though, 79 from 34 balls. The sub fielder is Hurricanes player Nathan Ellis, who isn’t formally in the squad but is helping out.
Mitch Marsh is the new Golden Bollocks! A late entree to the bowling attack for him, he has been very good with his medium pace this series. We have seen that batting gets harder as an innings wears on. Taking some pace off the ball as it gets softer and digging it into the surface can work. Marsh does so, using a hard length to force both batsmen to hit singles to his off-side sweepers. Sixth ball of the over, he bounces Lewis, and is unimpressed when the umpire calls it a wide. But he’s grateful a moment later when he bowls the seventh ball. Lewis can’t stand an over without a six, and tries to flat-bat it straight. Doesn’t get hold of it, that lack of pace, and hits it high to cover where there’s a fielder on the circle.
10th over: West Indies 119-2 (Lewis 77, Simmons 4) Zampa to bowl to Lewis, just after Lewis has taken down the other leggie, and Australia just have to hope that he makes a mistake. On track for a huuuugescore here otherwise. Zampa does well, using the Swepson-Gayle trick of angling hard across the left-hander, only letting him cut a single. Simmons facing four balls of the over is a good way to limit the damage from Lewis. Two singles apiece. An over conceding four runs is a triumph in the circumstances.
9th over: West Indies 115-2 (Lewis 75, Simmons 2) Seven sixes out of 63 runs for Lewis, that has to be close to a record for the proportion. He adds number eight and nine in this over! Simmons takes three balls to hand over strike against Swepson, then Lewis immediately belts a full ball over long on, then skips back to pull a shorter one over midwicket. Into the boundary rope on the full. That makes 54 of his 75 runs in sixes.
8th over: West Indies 102-2 (Lewis 63, Simmons 1) Gee, Evin Lewis will not be denied. AJ Tye starts really well: the knuckle ball, some angle across, three dot balls and a sliced boundary behind point with some luck to it. But the last two balls of the over Lewis just bangs over the fence. A toe-ended slog is the quintessential T20 era shot, because it still makes the journey over long off, far from where it was directed. The length ball over long on goes exactly where intended.
7th over: West Indies 84-2 (Lewis 47, Simmons 0) Simmons and Lewis are reunited, the opening partnership from the previous match, as Swepson gets through his over for only three runs.
A very, very brave move from Aaron Finch. Gayle has monstered Zampa in two matches now, and Finch brings on his other leg-spinner. Poses a challenge. Swepson is up to it, first bowling a yorker length that Gayle only drives for one. Then when he has the big left-hander back on strike, Swepson angles the ball across him very wide. It’s the googly, turning away, and it pitches on a good enough length that it has time to turn. Gayle tries to fetch it to the leg side, and the combination of factors mentioned above mean that he can’t get purchase. Sends it high up into the sky instead, and thank goodness for Behrendorff that he has the composure to hold onto the catch at mid off.
6th over: West Indies 81-1 (Lewis 46, Gayle 20) Lewis picks up where Gayle left off. Steps forward to Behrendorff first ball and drives him classically through cover for four. Behrendorff can’t handle the heat tonight, he’s sweating profusely, and perhaps can’t grip the ball properly, because he lets go of another full toss and Lewis belts this one over midwicket for six as well. A long conference with Finch, and the discussion probably doesn’t involve bowling a half-volley for Lewis to lift over long-off for six, but that’s what Finch gets. Behrendorff gets a couple of dot balls through, but finishes the over with another full toss, smacked back past him for four.
Wild. That over costs 21. He’s gone for 46 off 3.
5th over: West Indies 60-1 (Lewis 26, Gayle 20) Chris Gayle to the wicket then, and while he normally starts slowly, he gets forward to drive Zampa through covers first ball for four. Zampa bowls a little straighter, giving Gayle enough length to get under, so Gayle does, over midwicket for six! Just a bend of the knee and a swing through. He respects the next ball, defending, but then sees Zampa move the line across outside off stump. It’s hardly short, but Gayle gets his bat low and digs through a cut shot, bouncing it past backward point for four. Then sees the line moved back across to his pads and drop-kicks it over long on.
What a turnaround! A wicket from the first ball, then 20 runs from five balls for Chris Gayle. Zampa just shakes his head and laughs. Whaddyagonnado?
Bowled! First ball of Zampa’s night, in the Powerplay, and the leg-spinner has done it. Couldn’t take a wicket in the first three matches, came good with a rush in the fourth - he was the one who upset the West Indies chase. And he strikes again here. The yorker from a leg-spinner, and why not? He loops the ball towards the stumps, which has the effect of making Fletcher freeze in the headlights. Will it be a full toss? Should he come forward? He doesn’t know, and it curves down to land by his toes, rooted to the pitch as he finally plays an ineffectual swish and the ball hits middle stump.
4th over: West Indies 40-0 (Fletcher 12, Lewis 26) Fletcher decides to chance his arm, charging Hazlewood to play T-ball off a length, and gets it straight for six. He’s in the game. Hazlewood is in the game too. Shortens his length to defeat another attempted charge, then fires in the yorker that is pretty close to hitting Fletcher in front, squeezed out for a single.
3rd over: West Indies 31-0 (Fletcher 4, Lewis 25) Fletcher is battling, 4 from 12 balls, and the luck isn’t with him: when Behrendorff bowls a no-ball, that’s the time when Fletcher manages to get a single. So he doesn’t get to face the free hit. As often happens, Lewis misses the free hit entirely, swinging himself off his feet as it nearly hits the stumps. But Behrendorff makes the compounded error: he oversteps again. And bowls a full toss. Lewis doesn’t miss out this time, six over wide long on. The ball takes a long time to come back. Behrendorff nearly recovers his over with the next ball, drawing a leading edge from Lewis that just clears the bowler while falling short of mid on. But then bowls miles outside leg stump for the last ball, Lewis chasing it with a sweep shot to pick it up over long leg for six.
A very poor over from Behrendorff, costing 16. You can bowl a decent over in T20s that still goes for 16, such are the vagaries of the format. But this one was all about a bowler’s errors.
2nd over: West Indies 15-0 (Fletcher 3, Lewis 12) Hazlewood is the other new-ball operator, and Lewis is still making the running. It takes Fletcher four balls to get off strike, a mixture of bowling outside the off stump with others angling in. It takes Lewis one ball to clout a pull shot over midwicket for four.
1st over: West Indies 9-0 (Fletcher 2, Lewis 7) Starc may be out, but Australia have another tall left-armer to swing the ball into the right-hander. Fletcher is duly circumspect, taking a couple of singles. Not so the left-hander though. Lewis gets a ball on his pads, friendly length, and deposits it over deep square leg for six.
West Indies
Andre Fletcher
Evin Lewis
Chris Gayle
Lendl Simmons
Darren Bravo
Nicholas Pooran * +
Andre Russell
Fabian Allen
Hayden Walsh
Sheldon Cottrell
Oshane Thomas
Left-arm spinner Akira Hosein is back out of the side after one match, Darren Bravo returns. Lendl Simmons drops down from opening despite his brilliant work the other night. Perhaps Lewis and Fletcher are more in need of the gallop. Changes ahoy for Australia though, giving almost everyone in the squad a run with the series coming to an end.
Finally, the coin does not fall Aaron Finch’s way. Nicholas Pooran, deputising for the injured Kieron Pollard, gets to decide how the match will run today. He does indeed choose to bat first.
And then there was one. It’s been quite the series in St Lucia, mostly for the fireworks from the West Indies team. Andre Russell started them off with his first half-century in T20 Internationals, rescuing the first match of the series, and the displays haven’t stopped from there: Lendl Simmons, Evin Lewis, Chris Gayle, Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer, Darren Bravo, they’ve all had at least one night out with the bat. That was enough to give them the series with three wins in a row, but it wasn’t quite enough in the fourth match, with Australia’s bowlers narrowly holding off another high-octane West Indies performance.
The Australians will want to turn that win into the start of a streak, with three one-day matches to be played after the T20s wrap up. But the batting spread needs to increase. Mitch Marsh was pretty much on his own through those initial losses, then was joined by Aaron Finch in the big partnership that underpinned the win. Otherwise there has been too little from teammates with the stick.
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