The 2016 West Indies Tri-Series was a One Day International (ODI) cricket tournament held in the West Indies in June 2016.[1] It was a tri-nation series between the national representative cricket teams of the West Indies, Australia and South Africa. All the matches were played under lights and it was the first time a series in the Caribbean had all the matches played as day-night games.[2] Australia won the tournament by defeating the West Indies by 58 runs in the final.[3]
Squads
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 Australia[5]
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 South Africa[6]
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John Hastings was ruled out of the tournament with an ankle injury and was replaced with Scott Boland.[7] Rilee Rossouw injured his shoulder during the third ODI match. He was replaced by Dean Elgar.[8] David Warner broke his index finger whilst fielding during the fourth ODI match and was ruled out the rest of the series.[9]
Points table
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | L | T | NR | Pts | NRR |
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| 1 | Australia
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6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 0.383 |
| 2 | West Indies
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6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | −0.460 |
| 3 | South Africa
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6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 0.155 |
Source: ESPNcricinfo
Qualified for the Final
Matches
1st ODI
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
- Quinton de Kock and Hashim Amla opened the batting for South Africa for the 50th time in ODIs.[10]
- Points: West Indies 4, South Africa 0.
2nd ODI
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- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- The start of the match was delayed by 10 minutes due to a wet outfield with no overs lost from play.
- Points: Australia 5, West Indies 0.
3rd ODI
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
- Rain stopped play for 20 minutes during the Australian innings with no overs lost from play.
- Tabraiz Shamsi (SA) made his ODI debut.
- Points: South Africa 5, Australia 0.
4th ODI
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Faf du Plessis (SA) passed 3,000 ODI runs.[11]
- Points: Australia 4, South Africa 0.
5th ODI
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
- Travis Head (Aus) made his ODI debut.
- Marlon Samuels (WI) made his highest score in ODIs against Australia.[12] He went on to better this record with a score of 125 during the 8th ODI of this series.
- Points: West Indies 4, Australia 0.
6th ODI
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- West Indies won the toss and elected to field.
- Hashim Amla (SA) became the fastest to score 23 ODI centuries (132 innings).[13]
- Imran Tahir became the fastest South African to take 100 ODI wickets and recorded the best bowling figures by a South African bowler in ODIs.[14]
- Points: South Africa 5, West Indies 0.
7th ODI
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Quinton de Kock 5* (5)
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- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain stopped play after the 1st over of the South African innings and the match was finally called off at 18:25 with no further play possible.
- AB de Villiers played in his 200th ODI match for South Africa. He has also played five ODIs for Africa XI.[15]
- Points: Australia 2, South Africa 2.
8th ODI
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- Australia won the toss and elected to field.
- Shannon Gabriel (WI) made his ODI debut.
- Denesh Ramdin (WI) passed 2,000 ODI runs.[16]
- Marlon Samuels (WI) made his highest score in ODIs against Australia, bettering his score of 92 during the 5th ODI of this series.[17]
- Australia qualified for the final as a result of this match.[17]
- Points: Australia 4, West Indies 0.
9th ODI
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- South Africa won the toss and elected to field.
- Rain stopped play for 20 minutes during the West Indian innings with no overs lost from play.
- West Indies qualified for the final as a result of this match, while South Africa were eliminated.
- Points: West Indies 5, South Africa 0.
Final
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- Australia won the toss and elected to bat.
- Mitchell Marsh (Aus) passed 1,000 ODI runs.[18]
- Australia won the 2016 West Indies Tri-Series.
References
- ^ "Australia, SA to tour WI for tri-series in 2016". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 24 October 2015.
- ^ "West Indies tri-series to be played under lights". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ^ "Marsh, Wade lift Australia to title win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
- ^ "Narine, Pollard in WI squad for first four tri-series matches". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 19 May 2016.
- ^ "Starc set to return in West Indies". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ "South Africa include Shamsi in ODI squad". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ^ "Injured Hastings out of West Indies tri-series". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 May 2016.
- ^ "Rossouw out of tri-series with shoulder injury". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "Warner out of tri-series with broken finger". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "Narine, Pollard deliver winning start for West Indies". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 4 June 2016.
- ^ "Proteas collapse to Australia defeat". Sport24. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
- ^ "WI's first ODI win over Australia since 2012". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
- ^ "Tahir's ODI best a first for South Africa". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "Tahir, Amla lead South Africa to another bonus-point win". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
- ^ "Rain washes out De Villiers' 200th ODI for South Africa". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 20 June 2016.
- ^ "Denesh Ramdin reaches 2,000 ODI runs, misses his century in 8th ODI against Australia". Cricket Country. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Smith, Marsh lead Australia into final". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ^ "Mitchell Marsh completes 1000 runs in ODI cricket". Cricket Country. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
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