Australia Create History, Become 1st Team In The World To...
Australia managed to secure five outright wins in a row against the West Indies to clean sweep the five-match T20I series.
The Australia men's cricket team created history on Tuesday (July 29) by becoming the first team in the world to win a five-match T20I series against a Test-playing nation with a scoreline of 5-0. The 2021 T20 World Cup winners faced the West Indies in a five-match T20I series from July 21 to 29 and, under the leadership of Mitchell Marsh, won all five games.
In the past on multiple occasions, teams have won bilateral T20I series against a Test-playing nation with a scoreline of 4-1, but no team before Australia managed to secure five outright wins in a 5-match T20I series against any Test-playing nation.
DATE (IST) WINNER LOSER MARGIN POTM VENUE
July 21 Australia West Indies 3 wickets Mitchell Owen Jamaica
July 23 Australia West Indies 8 wickets Josh Inglis Jamaica
July 26 Australia West Indies 6 wickets Tim David St. Kitts
July 27 Australia West Indies 3 wickets Glenn Maxwell St. Kitts
July 29 Australia West Indies 3 wickets Ben Dwarshuis St. Kitts
The first-ever T20I match was played between New Zealand and Australia in Auckland on February 17, 2005, and the first-ever five-match T20I bilateral series was played between New Zealand and England in November 2019.
In January-February 2020, India defeated New Zealand 5-0 in the five-match T20I series played in New Zealand, but in that series, India won the third and fourth T20Is in the super over.
For Australia in the five-match T20I series against the West Indies, Tim David (37-ball century in 3rd T20I), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Owen (fifty on T20I debut), Josh Inglis, and Cameron Green impressed with their batting performances, and the likes of Ben Dwarshuis, Adam Zampa, and Nathan Ellis made headlines for their bowling performances.
In the fifth and final T20I of the series played on Monday (Tuesday IST), the Aussies bowled the West Indies team out for 170 in 19.4 overs. Apart from Shimron Hetmyer (52 runs from 31 balls), other West Indies batters failed to do much with the bat, and three of them were sent back to the pavilion by Dwarshuis, who conceded 41 runs in his quota of four overs.
For the visitors, apart from Dwarshuis, Ellis also picked up two wickets for 32 runs in 3.4 overs, and one West Indies batter each was dismissed by Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Maxwell, and Zampa.
In the 171-run chase, Owen top-scored for Mitchell Marsh & Co. He hammered 37 runs from just 17 balls after coming out to bat at No. 6, and Tim David added 30 runs from 12 balls to Australia's total of 173/7 in 17 overs. All-rounder Green, who won the Player of the Series award, also scored 32 runs from just 18 balls.
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