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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41 West Indies 230-6 Jason Holder 45 Carlos Brathwaite 1
Brathwaite gets off the mark with a risky shot over Aaron Finch at mid-wicket to pick up a single. Holder then finds the short boudary at short extra-cover and hits it beyond Steve Smith down there before he can even react.
Holder, who is really into his groove now, finds another boundary, edging one past slip to conclude a good over.
West Indies needs 59 off 54.
42 West Indies 232-6 Jason Holder 46 Carlos Brathwaite 2
Nathan Coulter-Nile almost bowls and catches Brathwaite, which will do nothing for his nerves. West Indies need Holder on strike.
Holder gets on strike and almost finds the boundary behind him with an outside edge, but Usman Khawaja is on hand.
How West Indies need Braithwaite to find some quick form.
West Indies require 57 from 48 balls.
43 West Indies 233-6 Jason Holder 47 Carlos Brathwaite 2
Close! Holder very nearly bundles the ball onto his own stumps!
Australia are giving little away in the field, restricting the number of twos that this duo can get, not that they're rapid between the wicket anyway...
West Indies need 56 from 42, that gap is widening.
43 West Indies 233-6 Jason Holder 46 Carlos Brathwaite 2
At the same stage in their innings, Australia were 233-6...
44 West Indies 244-6 Jason Holder 50 Carlos Brathwaite 8
Good running from Holder as he comes back from two. You wonder how long before they throw the kitchen sink at things with the required run rate slowly climbing. You don't imagine there's a huge amount of confidence in Ashley NUrse, Shledon Cottrell and Oshane Thomas...
Well...that is a HUGE six from Brathwaite. Here he is.
50 for Jason Holder
This has been a superb innings from the West Indies captain.
45 West Indies 251-6 Jason Holder 50 Carlos Brathwaite 16
Holder behins Pat Cummins' final over with a boundary straight over his head, he then follows it up with two after lobbing it over David Warner.
Oh gosh, that's close. Brathwaite is struggling to get back to the strikers' end and the bails are struck off...we go upstairs and....he's clear.
West Indies require 38 from 30 balls.
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