Delhi: Despite playing with only 9 players, Australia won the ICC World Cup 2024 practice match against Namibia, but the Kangaroos lost their second practice match against West Indies. In this match, Nicholas Pooran and Rovman Powell scored stormy half-centuries. It is worth noting that West Indies is one of the contenders to win the World Cup on home ground.

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Remember that recently the Windies defeated South Africa 3-0 in the 3-match T20I series on their home soil and this time they defeated Australia in the practice match of the T20 World Cup. The hosts won this match by 35 runs.

In Port of Spain, West Indies lost the toss and elected to bat first, after which they scored a huge score of 257 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Nicholas Pooran scored a half-century with the help of 3 fours and 6 sixes in just 16 balls. After playing a sensational innings of 75 runs in 25 balls, he finally left the field. Pooran hit 5 fours and 8 sixes.

Apart from this, captain Rovman Powell returned to the pavilion after scoring 52 runs in 25 balls. He hit 4 fours and as many sixes. Sherfan Rutherford remained unbeaten after scoring 47 runs in 18 balls. He also hit 4 fours and 4 sixes. Johnson Charles scored 40 runs in 31 balls. Shai Hope scored 14 runs in 8 balls, while Shimron Hetmyer added 18 runs in 13 balls.

In the last match against Namibia, Josh Hazlewood bowled 4 overs and 3 maiden overs, but against West Indies, he conceded 55 runs in 4 overs and did not get any wicket. Adam Zampa took 2 wickets for 62 runs. Tim David and Ashton Agar took 1 wicket each.

In reply, Australia scored 222 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Josh Inglis scored 55 runs in 30 balls. Nathan Ellis scored 39 runs in 22 balls. He hit 4 fours and 2 sixes. David Warner (15), Ashton Agar (28), Mitchell Marsh (4), Tim David (25), Adam Zampa (21) and Josh Hazlewood (3) also made important contributions, but their innings could not help the team win.

For West Indies, Alzari Joseph and G Moti took 2-2 wickets. Akeel Hussain, Shamar Joseph and Obed McCoy took 1-1 wickets. Puran was adjudged the Man of the Match for his fiery innings.

West Indies warned other teams

In such a situation, West Indies has warned the other teams by scoring more than 250 runs in 20 overs against a strong team like Australia.

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