Victory over West Indies regains No. 1 one-day ranking

Australia's confident 84-run win over West Indies has regained them the No. 1 one-day ranking from South Africa

Australia back on top of the world

West Indies v Australia, 1st ODI, St Vincent

Dwayne Bravo has been fined 20% of his match fee for breaching Level I of the ICC Code of Conduct by showing dissent at the umpire's decision during the first ODI between West Indies and Australia in St Vincent

Bravo fined 20% match fee for dissent

Ricky Ponting has condemned the crowd behaviour in St Vincent that delayed the end of the opening one-day international by ten minutes

Unruly crowd upsets Ponting

Australia hopeful allrounder will play in one-day series

Andrew Symonds' back injury is not expected to be a long-term threat to the allrounder's fitness

Lingering back injury not serious for Symonds

The comparisons between Shaun Marsh and his father Geoff are unlikely to stop, but the son achieved things in his first one-day international that were out of his father's reach

Like father, unlike son

June 24, 2008

Match home for West Indies v Australia, 1st ODI, St Vincent, June 24, 2008

Shaun Marsh made the second-highest score by an Australian one-day international debutant to set up a convincing 84-run victory in the first ODI in St Vincent

Marsh sets up 84-run win for Australia

West Indies' buoyant mood after the Twenty20 may be dinted by the absence of some senior players for the opening match against Australia

Injuries worry West Indies

Ricky Ponting expects Australia to win their ODI series against West Indies but there is more at stake for his team than a simple five-match contest. Of greater importance than the immediate results will be what Australia learn about their new group of fr

Australia to use ODIs as testing ground

Australia won the Test series, West Indies won the Twenty20 (or rather Eleven11) and now it's time for the final leg of the tour - a five-match ODI series

Teams start afresh for one-dayers

XM Marshall

B Lee

CH Gayle

NW Bracken

RR Sarwan

ADS Fletcher

CL White

DJ Bravo

MJ Clarke

KA Pollard

MG Johnson

D Ramdin

SR Watson

DJG Sammy

JE Taylor

SJ Benn

FH Edwards

JR Hopes

West Indies

Australia

SE Marsh

Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, St Vincent

Kingstown

RS Mahanama

Sri Lanka

Australia in West Indies ODI Series

GE Greaves

Australia tour of West Indies

1st ODI

CR Duncan

Asad Rauf

Pakistan

BR Doctrove

Player Name		R	B
XM Marshall	caught	6	11
CH Gayle	lbw	20	26
RR Sarwan	caught	2	11
ADS Fletcher	run out	26	43
DJ Bravo	lbw	33	37
KA Pollard	caught	11	20
D Ramdin	bowled	31	38
DJG Sammy	bowled	33	35
JE Taylor	caught	11	10
SJ Benn	caught	7	6
FH Edwards	not out	1	2
Extras	(w 8)
Total	189(10 wkts; 39.5 ovs)

Player Name	O	M	R	W	Econ
B Lee	9	1	37	2	4.11
NW Bracken	5.5	0	31	4	5.31
MG Johnson	7	0	42	1	6
JR Hopes	5	0	14	0	2.8
MJ Clarke	4	1	15	1	3.75
CL White	6	0	32	0	5.33
SR Watson	3	0	18	1	6

WKT	RUNS	Players
1st	11	Chris Gayle	Xavier Marshall
2nd	18	Ramnaresh Sarwan	Chris Gayle
3rd	0	Ramnaresh Sarwan	Andre Fletcher
4th	51	Dwayne Bravo	Andre Fletcher
5th	12	Andre Fletcher	Kieron Pollard
6th	19	Denesh Ramdin	Kieron Pollard
7th	52	Daren Sammy	Denesh Ramdin
8th	15	Daren Sammy	Jerome Taylor
9th	8	Sulieman Benn	Daren Sammy
10th	3	Sulieman Benn	Fidel Edwards

MATCH DAY

PREVIEW

West Indies Innings