comes forward, plays a soft push to the offside and completes a quick single to hand out a big thrashing to the tourists
Australia vs West Indies, 1st ODI at Perth, Feb 01 2013 - Ball by Ball Commentary
That brings us to the end of our coverage. It has been a short and sweet day. I will be back on Sunday on comms, hoping for a better contest. Here is Dan Brettig's match-report. This is Devashish Fuloria signing off for the day. Ciao
Michael Clarke: "It is nice to be on the other side after what happened in Brisbane. I think this was a very nice Test match wicket and that was the reason we would have wanted to bowl first anyway. Mitchell Johnson is the only other bowler I have seen do what Starc did today. It was the total which prompted us to send Maxwell up the order. If Maxwell bats like this, he can certainly have opening every game [smiles]. We are going to enjoy tonight and will get ready for a tough game in two days time. It is going to be a better batting wicket on Sunday"
Darren Sammy: "They hit us hard, and now we need to hit them hard in the next game. Hopefully it was just a one off. The team backed itself to bat first. But we fell to seam and swing. We need to come back strong and hard in two days time."
Mitchell Starc gets a fancy something in a box because he is the player of the match: "It is nice when the ball swings. It's nice when you get rhythm like that. If you had put enough ball in the right areas, the pitch had enough to help the bowlers."
Game over within 10 overs. It is like Super Mario found a pipeline to take him close to the finish. Clarke walks out to shake hands along with his teammates. Maxwell came out and had some fun, he missed some, but he found the range with some unorthodox hitting. But the real star of the match was Mitch Starc. What a spell he bowled earlier today? If you haven't seen it, I recommend the highlights highly.
Gareth: "Years ago Australia A gave Sri Lanka such a hiding on a tour, that the game was over within the first innings time frame. They then played a 25 over exhibition match to make sure the crowd got their money's worth. I hope they do that hear tonight as well!"
Super Ted: "@ Gareth - I somehow don't think the boys will be allowed to play an exhibition in this day and age! #rotationpolicy"
Bill: "@Gareth They don't think of the crowd anymore. They won't want to risk injury or give the West Indians extra batting practice."
Arpit: "These type of matches are surely eating up the TV commercial revenue for boards. ICC should come up with some kind of rule about it too"
David: "At least the WI batsmen can console themselves with the knowledge that they managed the 2nd, 3rd and 4th highest individual scores in the match (extras aside)."
Austen: "Maxwell is scoring runs for fun, I bet Khawaja is having a right old time watching him bat!"
short of length wide outside off, moves away after passing the batsman who has left it alone
Davinder: "Despite a poor performance from WI, Jason Holder has decent debut." He is coming round the wicket to Uzzie
flighted delivery on off and middle, he comes forward to push it to the leg side, but misses as the ball turns and hits the pads
short of length delivery, quick too, defended back to the bowler off the back foot
fifty for Maxwell as he cuts it hard through gully on the off side
he goes down the leg side and is called a wide, Maxwell wanted to send it to deep backward square
that is more orthodox stuff, flighted delivery is smashed over the off side, inside out
no he goes the other way with a reverse sweep, but makes no connection
Where is going now..? Let's see, deep square leg i say.
spins away after pitching outside off, Uzzie cuts it to point, who misfields allowing a single
he shuffles across the stumps, not as animatedly as earlier, and misses the short of length delivery down the leg side.
charges out and gets a full swinging delivery outside off, misses it
one bounce, two bounce, and it is a boundary over extra cover. What sort of short is that. He hammers this rising delivery from around his chest with a swat over cover
now goes all the way across to the off side, trying to paddle that over short fine, makes not connection
and tries to send this one down to downtown Perth by moving his front leg out of the way, the ball comes in with the angles and goes between bat and pad
Barry Stump: "Won't be going to the next match at the WACA - there's going to be a lot of beer sitting in the sun after this show!"
moves to the leg side, but the ball is full and it takes an inside edge to square leg
David: "Khawaja's gone past his highest score in ODI's ... what an achievement!"
flighted on middle and leg, it grips and turns past the bat. Uzzie beaten outside off
Two slips.
93 ks, flat and quick on off, he comes forward an defends
short and spins away from Uzzie, who uses the opportunity and cuts it hard past point to pick some welcome runs
Dale: "As glad i am to see Australia be on the right side of an embarrasing total, i am still a bit dissapointed the new batsmen didn't get a real chance to prove themselves."
comes down the pitch, but the ball is flatter, he has to dab it to cover for a single
and goes for a power sweep off a flighted one, but hits the man at forward short leg. It hit the fielder on his shin pads
short of length, turns into the batsman, Maxwell pulls it along and smashes it to deep midwicket boundary