Australia v West Indies ODIs: All it is advisable know

ODI collection details 

Schedule

First ODI: Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am March 28 AEDT (2pm March 27 local)

 

Second ODI: Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am March 30 AEDT (2pm March 29 local)

 

Third ODI: Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am April 3 AEDT (2pm April 2 local)

How to observe or pay attention in Australia: All matches might be broadcast on ESPN by way of Disney+ solely

Live scores: Match Centre

Highlights, information and reactions after the match: cricket.com.au and the CA Live app

The squads

Australia: Sophie Molineux (c), Ashleigh Gardner (vc), Tahlia McGrath (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Kim Garth, Lucy Hamilton Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham, Tahlia Wilson 

It’s a brand new period for Australia following Alyssa Healy’s ODI retirement final month. Sophie Molineux has been handed the one-day captaincy, however there are query marks round whether or not she is going to partake within the 50-over format on this tour as she focuses on rehabbing a again harm forward of the T20 World Cup.

Lucy Hamilton stored her spot within the squad following her debut in opposition to India, whereas Kim Garth and Ellyse Perry are each match and firing after lacking out final month because of quad accidents. 

Star allrounder Annabel Sutherland is sitting out the tour, nonetheless, as Australia look to make sure arguably their most beneficial participant is recent and primed for the looming T20 World Cup in June.

Uncapped wicketkeeper-batter Tahlia Wilson has joined the group for the ODI leg as a back-up for Beth Mooney.

West Indies: Hayley Matthews (c), Chinelle Henry (vc), Aaliyah Alleyne, Shemaine Campbelle, Jahzara Claxton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Jannillea Glasgow, Realeanna Grimmond, Shawnisha Hector, Qiana Joseph, Ashmini Munisar, Karishma Ramharack, Shunelle Sawh, Stafanie Taylor

The West Indies left it late to substantiate their squad for the ODI leg – coming after that they had already educated – however regardless of considerations over key allrounder Chinelle Henry, who suffered a hand harm within the T20I collection, she has been included. There are three adjustments from the T20 squad for the 50-over matches with Realeanna Grimmond, Ashmini Munisar and Shunelle Sawh all becoming a member of, with Eboni Brathwaite, Zaida James and Mandy Mangru dropping out.  

There might be loads of assist for St Kitts native Jahzara Claxton after the 20-year-old earned reward from head coach Shane Deitz for her bowling within the T20I collection, whereas Afy Fletcher can even be key with the ball.

But a lot for the Windies will once more relaxation on the shoulders of skipper Hayley Matthews and the big-hitting Deandra Dottin.

The ICC ODI Championship is again!

The 2026-2029 ICC Women’s Championship is formally underway and that is Australia’s first collection of the brand new cycle.  

Running each 4 years, the 11-team Championship determines which sides, alongside the yet-to-be-determined hosts, will achieve automated qualification for the 2029 ODI World Cup.

The groups who miss out might want to head to the ICC’s qualifying match to try to win a spot on the occasion.

It’s at the moment unclear what number of groups might be granted spots via the Championship, because the World Cup will improve from eight to 10 groups in 2029. 

Each of the 11 groups play eight three-game ODI collection – 4 at house and 4 away – assembly all bar two of the opposite Championship sides, and there are two factors on supply for every win.

Australia have gained all three earlier editions of the Championship. Just three collection have been performed up to now, with New Zealand beating Zimbabwe 3-0, Sri Lanka bettering West Indies 2-1 and South Africa defeating Pakistan 2-1.

Form Guide

Past 10 matches, most up-to-date first. W: win, L: loss, NR: no end result

Australia: W W W L W W W W W W  

Australia swept the ODI leg of their multi-format collection in opposition to India 3-0 earlier this month, in a powerful response to their World Cup semi-final defeat to the identical rival final October. That knockout defeat adopted an unbeaten journey via the spherical stage.

West Indies: W L L L L W L L L W

West Indies had a disappointing run in Grenada final month, dropping to Sri Lanka 1-2. That was their first 50-over collection since final June, when the suffered collection defeats to South Africa and England.

West Indies have crushed Australia simply as soon as in ODIs, again in 2013.

Last time they met

It’s been a very long time between matches for Australia and West Indies, who final met in a bilateral collection in 2023, the place the Aussies took out the ODIs 2-0.

West Indies didn’t function on the ODI World Cup final October after lacking qualification.   

Head-to-head in ODIs

Local information

How else can I comply with alongside?

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Make positive you are following all of the @auswomencricket and @cricketcomau social channels for additional interviews and behind-the-scenes motion.

In thrilling information, The Scoop Cricket Podcast has returned to eardrums throughout the nation after an virtually two-year hiatus. 

Esteemed broadcaster Rana Hussain and star spinner Molly Strano are co-hosting the revamped present, and have been joined by Australia’s newest call-up Tahlia Wilson forward of the West Indies tour.

Remember to hit subscribe so you do not miss an episode. The present can also be on the cricket.com.au YouTube channel. 

And do not miss the Diary Room, the place host Emily Collin goes in depth with the Aussies on tour!

The forecast

Warm circumstances are anticipated in Basseterre, with tops round 29-30 levels Celsius for every of the three video games and the potential for some showers.

Rapid stats

• Australia have gained all three of their earlier bilateral girls’s ODI collection in opposition to West Indies together with a 2-0 win of their most up-to-date assembly in October 2023. Overall, they’ve solely misplaced one in every of their 17 complete matches in opposition to West Indies within the format.
• West Indies girls have misplaced 5 of their final six bilateral girls’s ODI collection together with their final three in a row; the final time they misplaced extra consecutive collection was a run of 4 from February to November in 2019.
• Australia have gained their final 10 bilateral girls’s ODI collection they usually have solely misplaced two matches throughout these collection; their final collection defeat was 1-2 in opposition to England in July 2023.
• West Indies have gained six of their final seven girls’s ODIs at Warner Park they usually have gained a complete of 10 matches on the floor, three greater than they’ve gained at some other venue; that is set to be Australia’s first recreation on the floor.
• Australia have scored 6.3 runs per over in girls’s ODIs for the reason that begin of 2025, the very best fee of any workforce; their collective batting common of 40.2 can also be the very best of any workforce.
• West Indies have recorded the inverse match end result to the toss of their final six girls’s ODIs – they’ve gained the match on the 2 events during which they’ve misplaced the toss, they usually have misplaced the match on the 4 events during which they’ve gained the toss; they’ve batted second on the day in all six of these video games.
• Hayley Matthews (West Indies) has an economic system fee of 4.2 from her 146.1 overs in girls’s ODIs for the reason that begin of 2025, the bottom of any bowler to have bowled greater than 120 overs; she has taken 28 wickets in that span, probably the most by a West Indies bowler and joint fifth most general.
• Megan Schutt (148) wants two extra wickets to turn into the third participant for Australia – after Cathryn Fitzpatrick with 180 and Ellyse Perry with 166 – and eleventh general to take 150 wickets in girls’s ODIs. She has taken 19 wickets at a median of 17.2 in opposition to West Indies, her second greatest common in opposition to any opponent after Bangladesh (12).
• Aaliyah Alleyne (47) wants three extra wickets to turn into the tenth participant to take 50 wickets for West Indies in girls’s ODIs; nonetheless, she has didn’t take multiple wicket in her final 5 innings within the format.

Australia’s tour of the West Indies 2026

First T20I: Australia won by 43 runs

Second T20I: Australia won by 17 runs

Third T20I: Australia won by 40 runs (DLS)

First ODI: March 28, Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am AEDT (March 27, 2pm local)

Second ODI: March 30, Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am AEDT (March 29, 2pm local)

Third ODI: April 3, Warner Park, St Kitts, 5am AEDT (April 2, 2pm local)

West Indies squad: Hayley Matthews (c), Chinelle Henry (vc), Aaliyah Alleyne, Eboni Brathwaite, Shemaine Campbelle, Jahzara Claxton, Deandra Dottin, Afy Fletcher, Jannillea Glasgow, Shawnisha Hector, Zaida James, Qiana Joseph, Mandy Mangru, Karishma Ramharack, Stafanie Taylor

Australia squad: Sophie Molineux (c), Ashleigh Gardner (vc), Tahlia McGrath (vc), Darcie Brown, Nicola Carey, Kim Garth, Lucy Hamilton, Alana King, Phoebe Litchfield, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Georgia Voll, Georgia Wareham, Tahlia Wilson

All matches to be broadcast on ESPN by way of Disney+ solely