Australia continue dominant run

Doug Bollinger leads Australia to another ruthless performance which saw them take a 2-0 lead against the Windies.

The hosts comfortably beat West Indies by eight wickets after reducing the hosts to a paltry score with a brilliant bowling performance.

West Indies won the toss and elected to bat first, hoping to improve on their showing in the last game but their downfall started with the first ball when Chris Gayle was adjudged leg before to Doug Bollinger. The Australian bowlers kept hitting the right channels and the inexperienced batting order collapsed. West Indies were reduced to just 24 for the loss of four wickets in the Quick start overs. Narsingh Deonarine and Denesh Ramdin tried to pull things back, adding 46 runs for the fifth wicket before Deonarine was out. Ramdin went soon after and they were left struggling on 78 for six at the end of 21 overs. Valuable contributions from Kieron Pollard and Dwayne Smith helped them get some respectability before they were bowled out for 170 in the 40th over.

Australia were under no pressure and got off to a strong start, scoring 54 runs in the mandatory power play, losing the only wicket of Shaun Marsh. Shane Watson scored an impressive half century at the top before he was caught behind off Kemar Roach. That was the last wicket to fall as skipper, Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke batted responsibly through the innings and eventually go to the 171 run target in just 26.3 overs.

Doug Bollinger was adjudged Man of the Match for his four wickets that he picked up, maintaining a Bowling Efficiency of 343.