In the first of five Twenty20 matches on Friday, the West Indies defeated Australia by 18 runs as they took advantage of a spectacular late batting collapse by Australia.<\/p>\n
Andre Russell scored 51 runs off 28 balls, while Lendl Simmons added 27 runs, and the home team scored 145-6 after being sent in to bat. At 70-3, Australia was expected to win when it lost six wickets for 19 runs and was all out for 127. As for the West Indies, Obed McCoy racked up 4-26 and Hayden Walsh contributed 3-23.<\/p>\n
With 51 runs and two wickets, Mitch Marsh led the way for the home team. Josh Hazlewood finished with 3-12. Australia\u2019s opener Matthew Wade started off strong with 33 runs from 14 balls, but it was wasted after a late collapse.<\/p>\n
Cricket Australia issued a statement to AP after players from both teams kneeled before Mitchell Starc\u2019s first delivery at Daren Sammy National Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Australian men\u2019s cricket team stands with the West Indies cricket team in condemning racial injustice and discrimination, both at home in Australia, and throughout the world,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe kneel alongside our West Indian friends to recognize and show our support of all those who have been victims of racial injustice and\/or discrimination, past and present.\u201d The man of the match award was given to McCoy. There will be a second competitive match on Saturday in Gros Islet at the same stadium.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A stunning Australian collapse helped West Indies pull off an 18-run win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":25622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[621,995,1789,1231,1118,2265,2264,242],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-andre-russell","tag-cricket-australia","tag-daren-sammy","tag-josh-hazlewood","tag-lendl-simmons","tag-matthew-wade","tag-mitch-marsh","tag-west-indies"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}