The West Indies cricket team has lost their series against the boys from down under. The Windies fell 50 runs short of victory in the fourth One-Day International at the Gabba, handing Australia an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
The Aussies were asked to bat first and made a ground record 324-7 off their 50 overs. The Windies replied with 274-8 off their allotment.
The difference between the sides was a masterful 106 off 112 balls from Australia skipper Ricky Ponting – his 29th century in his 339th One-Dayer.
For West Indies, Kieron Pollard topscored with a robust 62 off 55 balls, and Narsingh Deonarine, made 53 from 69 balls – both recorded their career-best scores. Dwayne Smith made 59 not out with three sixes and kept the fight going until the end.
Captain Chris Gayle offered no excuses and promised his players will continue to strive to improve in the remaining matches.
`Australia played better and they deserved to win. We knew that they would come hard at us and from the start you could see their batsmen trying to go over the top,` said Gayle.
`But we had some good moments in the match and we actually got a pretty good score in the end, so we have a few things to be proud of. I was happy to see the middle-order stepping up today and that kept us in the game.`But he added: `We will still be trying to win the last match at the MCG on Friday and after that we have the two T20 matches, so there is still a lot of work to be done.`
In the bowling department, seamer Darren Sammy had 2-44 from eight overs while Dwayne Smith again used the new ball and had 2-59 from eight overs. There was some outstanding fielding. Veteran Wavell Hinds took what was described as one of cricket`s all-time great catches -- running back from deep mid-on to dismiss opener Shane Watson off Smith. Pollard was also brilliant and held a superb one-hand take at point to get rid of Tim Paine off Sammy in the early exchanges.
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