Thrilling st.vincent tie

I t was a most entertaining and crucial 3rd odi between aussie and windies as both the team were tied 1-1 each.Aussie batted first with some floppy start by losing both losing both watson and wade for mere numbers.Even warner can just contribute 37 in a good st.vincent wicket.

Mr.cricket and george bailey changed the situation of aussie with some enthralling innings both crossing their fifties but both falling to marlon samuels to bring aussie to a respectable situation.

Again lower middle order batsmen including david hussey and the rest of them couldn't make much hype as they continued their flop show against windies. As aussie lost all the final 6 wickets for just 18 runs.

Narine and samuels again proved their worth by collapsing the strong aussie side for a mere 220 which is considered a stiff target in a typical windies pitch.

windies started their innings in a worst fashion by losing keiran powell,samuels and darren bravo for a mere runs as all the 3 wickets were chipped in by watson.Great performance by newbie charles proved worthy for windies by scoring 45 runs.After charles and dwayne bravo being dismissed as the windies remained 78 for 5.In that time aussie were in a good position to seal the match.

Again a whirlwind performance by pollard took windies to a good position but windies lost the wicket of dangerous pollard for 37 and windies were floating at 117 for 6.

With russel and baugh staying at the crease there was a drama when russel was bowled off by watson in a no ball and again russel was bowled off in a no ball in the free hit delivery.

An excellent match saving 64 runs partnership between baugh and russel kept windies in a contest.But again windies lost both their saviours to mckay and kept the score ticking 190 for 8.sammy and narine stayed at the crease and narine scored the crucial 10runs and have to go to pavillion and kept windies in bay for 204 for 9.

sammy with the help of tailenders narine and roach helped windies reach close to the target and with sammy hitting a boundary in final over of lee.Windieslevelled the scores with 3 balls remaining.

There was another drama when there was a mix up between sammy and roach stranded in the same end as brett lee removed the bails.

Finally it ended in a thrilling tie and it is one of the fantastic matches to watch out for.Mr.cricket received the match of the match award for his superb knock of 67 runs.