Chris Gayle smashed 67 off solely 38 balls as West Indies cruised within the chase.© AFP
Chris Gayle’s first T20 Worldwide half-century in six years paced the West Indies to a series-clinching six-wicket victory over Australia within the third fixture of their five-match collection on the Daren Sammy Stadium in St Lucia on Monday. Chasing a modest goal of 142 after the vacationers struggled but once more with the bat, Gayle recaptured his most harmful kind in smashing seven sixes and 4 fours in racing to 67 off solely 38 balls to take his workforce to the goal and a 3-0 lead within the collection.
He additionally despatched an ominous warning to all opponents that the 41-year-old may but be an element within the Caribbean facet’s defence of the T20 World Cup title in three months’ time.
Gayle’s pyrotechnics adopted one other environment friendly West Indies efficiency within the discipline, as wrist-spinner Hayden Walsh once more offered the best problem to the Australians, with figures of two for 18 in limiting the guests to 141 for six.
All-rounder Moises Henriques top-scored with 33 and struck the one two sixes of his workforce’s innings, the primary coming off the ultimate supply of the sixteenth over.
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