Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2008

The Australian cricket team toured the West Indies between 16 May and 6 July 2008, outside the normal West Indies cricket season. Australia won two of three Test matches played (one being a draw) and all five One-day Internationals. The West Indies won the single Twenty20 International game.

Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 2008
	West Indies	Australia
Dates	16 May 2008 – 6 July 2008
Captains	Ramnaresh Sarwan	Ricky Ponting
Test series
Result	Australia won the 3-match series 2–0
Most runs	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (442)	Ricky Ponting (323)
Most wickets	Fidel Edwards (15)	Brett Lee (18)
Player of the series	Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
One Day International series
Results	Australia won the 5-match series 5–0
Most runs	Chris Gayle (180)	Shane Watson (206)
Most wickets	Fidel Edwards (6)	Nathan Bracken (8) Mitchell Johnson (8)
Player of the series	Shane Watson (Aus)
Twenty20 International series
Results	West Indies won the 1-match series 1–0
Most runs	Xavier Marshall (36)	Luke Ronchi (36)
Most wickets	Kemar Roach (2)	Shane Watson (1)
Player of the series	Xavier Marshall (WI)

Squads

Australia					West Indies
Name	Domestic	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes	Name	Domestic	Batting style	Bowling style	Notes
Batsmen					Batsmen
Matthew Hayden		Left Handed Opening Batsmen	Right-arm Medium	Test & ODI Returned To Australia Injured	Devon Smith		Left Handed Opening Batsmen	Right-arm Offbreak	Test Only
Phil Jaques		Left Handed Opening Batsman	Left-arm Medium	Test Only	Ramnaresh Sarwan (c)		Right Handed Middle Order	Part-time Right-arm Offbreak	Test & ODI
Ricky Ponting (c)		Right-handed Top Order	Right-arm Medium	Test & ODI	Shivnarine Chanderpaul		Left Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Legbreak	Test & ODI
Michael Hussey		Left Handed Middle Order/Opener	Right-arm Medium	Test & ODI	Runako Morton		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Offbreak	Test Only
Simon Katich		Left Handed Opening Batsman/Middle Order	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Replaced Hayden as Test Opener	Brenton Parchment		Right Handed Opening Batsman	Right-arm Offbreak	Test Only
Brad Hodge		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Offbreak	Test Only	Xavier Marshall		Right Handed Opening Batsman	Right-arm Offbreak	Replaced Parchment as an opener; Test, Twenty & ODI
David Hussey		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Offbreak	ODI Only	Sewnarine Chattergoon		Left Handed Opening Batsman	Legbreak	Test Only; Injured and unable to play ODIs
Shaun Marsh		Left Handed Opening Batsman	Slow Left Arm	ODI Only	Chris Gayle		Left Handed Opening Batsman	Right-arm Offbreak	Test & ODI
					William Perkins		Right Handed Opening Batsman		Twenty20 Only
					Andre Fletcher		Right Handed Middle Order Batsman	Right-arm Medium-Fast	Twenty20 & ODI
					Shawn Findlay		Left Handed Middle Order Batsman	Right-arm Medium	ODI Only
Wicket-keeper					Wicket-keeper
Brad Haddin		Right Handed Lower Order		Test & ODI Returned to Australia injured after 1st ODI	Denesh Ramdin		Right Handed Lower Order		Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Luke Ronchi		Right Handed Opening Batsman/Lower Order		Test & ODI Backup Wicketkeeper	Patrick Browne		Right Handed Lower Order		ODI Backup Wicketkeeper
All-rounders					All-rounders
Michael Clarke (vc)		Right Handed Middle Order	Slow Left Arm	Test & ODI	Dwayne Bravo (vc)		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Medium-Fast	Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Andrew Symonds		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Medium/Right-arm Offbreak	Test & ODI	Darren Sammy		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Medium Fast	Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Beau Casson		Right Handed Lower Order	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	Test Only	Ryan Hinds		Left Handed Lower Order	Slow Left Arm	Test Only
James Hopes		Right Handed Middle Order	Right-arm Medium	ODI Only	Kieron Pollard		Right Handed Middle Order Batsman	Right-arm Medium-Fast	Twenty20 & ODI
Cameron White		Right Handed Lower Order	Right-arm Legbreak	ODI Only
Shane Watson		Right Handed Middle Order/Opener	Right-arm Fast-Medium	ODI Only, Replaced Mathew Hayden
Bowlers					Bowlers
Brett Lee		Right Handed Lower Order	Right-arm Fast	Test & ODI	Fidel Edwards		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast	Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Stuart Clark		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast-Medium	Test & ODI	Daren Powell		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast Medium	Test & ODI
Stuart MacGill		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Legbreak	Test Only, Retired Second Test	Jerome Taylor		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast	Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Mitchell Johnson		Left Handed Tail Ender	Left-arm Fast-Medium	Test & ODI	Sulieman Benn		Left Handed Lower Order	Slow Left Arm	Test, Twenty20 & ODI
Ashley Noffke		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast-Medium	First Choice Test Backup	Amit Jaggernauth		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Offbreak	Test Only
Doug Bollinger		Left Handed Tail Ender	Left-arm Fast	Likely Test Backup	Kemar Roach		Right Handed Tail Ender	Right-arm Fast Medium	Twenty20 Only
Nathan Bracken		Right Handed Tail Ender	Left-arm Medium-Fast	ODI Only	Nikita Miller		Right Handed Tail Ender	Slow Left Arm	ODI Only

Tour matches

Three-day : Jamaica Select XI vs Australians

16–18 May Scorecard

Jamaica Select XI	v	Australians
297 (69 overs) Carlton Baugh 111* (112) Stuart MacGill 4/79 (21 overs)		396 (113.3 overs) Simon Katich 97 (193) Donovan Sinclair 3/14 (6.3 overs)
194 (58.2 overs) Carlton Baugh 36 (38) Simon Katich 4/15 (5.2 overs)		65/1 (13.3 overs) Simon Katich 37 (49) Andre Russell 1/25 (7 overs)

Match drawn Trelawny Stadium, Greenfields, Trelawny, Jamaica Umpires: Vivian Johnson (WI) and Norman Malcolm (WI) Player of the match: Simon Katich (Aus)

50-over : University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI v Australians

21 June Scorecard

Australians 337/6 (50 overs)	v	University of West Indies Vice Chancellor's XI 126 (33.1 overs)
Shane Watson 95 (85) Kemar Roach 2/47 (8 overs)		Denesh Ramdin 43 Nathan Bracken 3/25 (8 overs)

Australians won by 211 runs Three Ws Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Umpires: Vincent Bullen (WI) and Anthony Farrell (WI)

Test series

1st Test

22–26 May Scorecard

Australia	v	West Indies
431 (126.5 overs) Ricky Ponting 158 (224) Fidel Edwards 5/104 (26.5 overs)		312 (106 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 118 (276) Stuart Clark 3/59 (19 overs)
167 (55.5 overs) Andrew Symonds 79 (118) Dwayne Bravo 4/47 (18.5 overs)		191 (67 overs) Denesh Ramdin 36 (61) Stuart Clark 5/32 (20 overs)

Australia won by 95 runs Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Stuart Clark (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Bad light ended both day 3 and day 4 early.

2nd Test

30 May – 2 June Scorecard

Australia	v	West Indies
479/7d (136 overs) Simon Katich 113 (248) Jerome Taylor 3/95 (27 overs)		352 (107 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 107* (236) Brett Lee 5/59 (21 overs)
244/6d (61.5 overs) Phil Jaques 76 (136) Fidel Edwards 2/28 (7.5 overs)		266/5 (93 overs) Ramnaresh Sarwan 128 (241) Brett Lee 3/51 (21 overs)

Match drawn Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda Umpires: Mark Benson (Eng) and Russell Tiffin (Zim) Player of the match: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
• Australia's innings was interrupted by rain in both innings. Stuart MacGill played his last international match

3rd Test

12–16 June Scorecard

Australia	v	West Indies
251 (67.1 overs) Andrew Symonds 52 (84) Jerome Taylor 3/46 (12 overs)		216 (58.5 overs) Shivnarine Chanderpaul 79* (142) Mitchell Johnson 4/41 (11.5 overs)
439/5d (145 overs) Simon Katich 157 (332) Sulieman Benn 3/154 (47 overs)		387 (105.4 overs) Xavier Marshall 85 (146) Stuart Clark 3/58 (24 overs)

Australia won by 87 runs Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Umpires: Aleem Dar (Pak) and Mark Benson (Eng) Player of the match: Simon Katich (Aus)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain ended day 1 early.

T20I series

Only T20I

20 June Scorecard

Australia  97/3 (11 overs)	v	West Indies 102/3 (9.1 overs)
Luke Ronchi 36 (22) Kemar Roach 2/29 (3 overs)		Xavier Marshall 36 (15) Shane Watson 1/17 (2.1 overs)

West Indies won by 7 wickets Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados Umpires: Clyde Duncan (WI) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Xavier Marshall (WI)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
• Rain reduced match to 11 overs per side.

ODI series

1st ODI

24 June Scorecard

Australia  273/8 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 189 (39.5 overs)
Shaun Marsh 81 (97) Darren Sammy 2/31 (7 overs)		Darren Sammy 33 (35) Nathan Bracken 4/31 (5.5 overs)

Australia won by 84 runs Arnos Vale Ground, Kingstown, Saint Vincent Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Billy Doctrove (WI) Player of the match: Shaun Marsh (Aus)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.

2nd ODI

27 June Scorecard

Australia  213/5 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 140/8 (41 overs)
Michael Hussey 62 (105) Jerome Taylor 2/47 (10 overs)		Shivnarine Chanderpaul 45* (77) Michael Clarke 3/26 (6 overs)

Australia won by 63 runs (D/L) National Cricket Stadium, St. George's, Grenada Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Norman Malcolm (WI) Player of the match: Michael Clarke (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd ODI

29 June Scorecard

West Indies  223 (48 overs)	v	Australia 227/3 (40.3 overs)
Chris Gayle 53 (54) Nathan Bracken 3/26 (9 overs)		Shane Watson 126 (122) Darren Sammy 1/20 (4 overs)

Australia won by 7 wickets National Cricket Stadium, St George's, Grenada Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Norman Malcolm (WI) Player of the match: Shane Watson (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to field.
• Shane Watson (Aus) scored his first century in ODIs.

4th ODI

4 July Scorecard

Australia  282/8 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 281/6 (50 overs)
Andrew Symonds 87 (78) Fidel Edwards 2/53 (10 overs)		Chris Gayle 92 (92) Brett Lee 3/64 (10 overs)

Australia won by 1 run Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Steve Bucknor (WI) Player of the match: Andrew Symonds (Aus)

• West Indies won the toss and elected to field.

5th ODI

6 July Scorecard

Australia  341/8 (50 overs)	v	West Indies 172 (39.5 overs)
Andrew Symonds 66 (80) Ramnaresh Sarwan 3/57 (9 overs)		Shawn Findlay 59* (74) Mitchell Johnson 5/29 (7.5 overs)

Australia won by 169 runs Warner Park, Basseterre, Saint Kitts Umpires: Asad Rauf (Pak) and Steve Bucknor (WI) Player of the match: Luke Ronchi (Aus)

• Australia won the toss and elected to bat.

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