Australia vs West Indies, The Oval, Live Streaming, Live Scores
Group C is the toughest of the 4 groups and Australia meet West Indies in the opening game at the Oval on Saturday.
Australia vs West Indies Live Scorecard
This game follows the New Zealand vs Scotland match and as we pointed out in the preview of that game, the weather forecast is not good at the time of writing. If the rain stays away, we will at least have the benefit of seeing how the wicket plays and any advantage in batting first or chasing.
West Indies have had a miserable time in England over the last few weeks, soundly beaten in both the test matches and the ODI series. Although the general opinion is that this format is probably their strongest suit, the overall morale in the camp since they landed in England makes me very wary of their chances.
Australia have a decent warm up and put New Zealand away by 7 wickets on Tuesday. Everything was looking good until the latest incident with Andrew Symonds who has been sent home for breaking how shall we put it – the alcohol code of conduct.
Symonds omission is a blow and weakens the first choice line up but on the plus side, Ponting should be fresh and raring to go after sitting out the recent Pakistan ODI series and Shane Watson is fit and firing gain.
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