Cricket World Cup 2019 result: Mitchell Starc takes five wickets as Australia beat West Indies
Australia face the West Indies at Trent Bridge
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Your support makes all the difference.Australia continued their strong start to the World Cup edging the West Indies at Trent Bridge.
The match looked to be in the West Indies' hands when they reduced Australia to 79-5 but Steve Smith and Nathan Coulter-Nile both played important knocks to help set a 289 target.
Mitchell Starc then took five wickets as Chris Gayle and co. ended 15 runs shy. Here's how it played out.
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The toss
West Indies won the toss and have chosen to bowl
West Indies captain Jason Holder: "I think our fast bowlers can extract whatever is in the wicket early on. The nature of the wickets in England is that they don't change very much. We just have to remain disciplined and remain aggressive like we were in our first game against Pakistan."
Australia captain Aaron Finch: "I probably would have had a bat first anyway, it looks dry and hopefully it will spin later. We are starting to take the key moments in games."
1.0 Australia 10-0 Aaron Finch 2 David Warner 2
Oshane Thomas opens the bowling for West Indies, nothing like an easy introduction into the game for the openers...
Not the best start. Thomas goes over the wicket and it's wide then off towards the boundary. Not the best statement with the first ball of the day.
Warner gets himself off the mark with a knock past backward point and Shimron Hetmeyer fumbles it at the boundary. Not the best statement with the second ball of the day.
Thomas is then done for a no-ball after hitting Warner's pad. The free hit is clubbed to mid-wicket and Carlos Brathwaite does well to prevent the boundary.
What a chaotic over to start of the day. More of the same, anyone?
2.0 Australia 15-0 Aaron Finch 6 David Warner 2
Sheldon Cottrell opens his account this morning with a decent over. Finch is getting into his groove with two runs after clipping the ball to third man, he's already showing a keen eye for making this West Indies side work in the field.
2.2 Australia 15-0
WICKET! Aaron Finch (6)
Oshane Thomas is back for another over and troubles Finch with his first ball, the Australian captain throws the kitchen sink at it, but misses.
The next delivery is very similar and Finch edges it to Shai Hope behind!
A huge blow for Australia.
3.0 Australia 22-1 Usman Khawaja 4 David Warner 2
Khawaja is equal to Oshane Thomas' short bowling and finds the first boundary of the day.
This West Indies tactic of agressive short-pitch bowling has the Aussies fired up here. Mind you, Khawaja has just tacken a whack on the shoulder from the penultimate delivery of the over. Off the glove and onto the visor. Ouch.
The physios are on to check on Khawaja. He seems okay, although this is not his first knock. He was hit by Andre Russell in a warm-up game. It can't be much fun facing this West Indies attack.
4.0 Australia 26-2
WICKET! David Warner (3)
We have our first salute of the day as Sheldon Cottrell removes Warner!
This is a fantastic start for the West Indies and Australia seem to have no way of replying to their impressive bowling.
Here comes Steve Smith to greater boos than Warner received.
5.0 Australia 28-2 Usman Khawaja 11 Steve Smith 1
Smith is off the mark with a single. He never looks out of form and Australia will hope he can hold the fort and get others batting around him throughout the day.
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