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CibbuanoODI: Australia on their way to series clean sweep
July 3rd 2008 23:17
The Australia one-day team are heading for a series clean sweep of the Windies after taking a 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
The Aussies took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five limited overs series after injury-prone Shane Watson notched his maiden international century in a crushing seven-wicket win over the Windies in the third match.
Watson has carried his great form from the IPL series to the one-day arena and formed a wonderful 190-run partnership with skipper Ricky Ponting as the visitors made 227-3 in 40.3 overs. The skipper also overturned his barren run rate of late with 69 runs before getting dismissed by Gayle.
Vice-captain Michael Clarke is adamant the team will not let their guards down for the two dead rubbers and will be looking for a 5-0 series clean sweep to kick-start a 'new era' for the Australian one-day team.
"With the team we have now, if we can win 5-0 it certainly shows we've stood tall," said Pup.
"Obviously we've lost a lot of players from both forms of the games, but we won the Test series here, and hopefully if we win this 5-0 it will be a great start to what is a new era" he added.
The next match will be at Warner Park on Friday.
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