In the opening 50 ODI on their tour of the West Indies, Australia overame a poor batting performance with some good bowling aided by some bad batting by the West Indies.

Australia batted first and scored a paltry 204 for 8 of their 50 overs.  The Australians had good starts for all but one of the top order batsmen but none of them took the advantage to post a big score.  Top scoring for the Aussies was new comer GJ Bailey who hit 48 of 67 balls.

The West Indies in reply was soon in trouble with openers Johnson Charles and K. Powell getting out early with the score on 15 and 23.  The West Indies were in more trouble when Dareen Bravo was run out with the score on 33 for 3.  Samuels and Dwayne Bravo took the score to 97 when Brovo was bowled by Christian for 32.  The West Indies as we have gotten use to in the past plunged to 104 for 9 before Captain Sammy inning of 35 at the end bring to 140 all out.