Australia vs. Canada – Second innings: Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326, Brad Haddin thrash the Canadians
Australia have beaten Canada by a comprehensive margin of seven wickets in a Group A fixture of the ICC World Cup 2011 at Bangalore.
This emphatic victory has made sure that the Aussies are now at the top of the points table of Group A with one match left against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 on the other hand would be happy with the sort of fight they showed against the defending champions.
Chasing a mediocre total under lights, the Kangaroos were off to a brilliant start through their openers Shane Watson and Brad Haddin. Both the openers played their shots at will and made sure that they do not leave it to anyone else. Watson and Haddin scored
183 runs for the first wicket which took the game away from the Canadians. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 then lost three wickets in quick succession but eventually achieved their target in the 35th over of the innings with 7 wickets in hand.
Watson remained the top scorer for Australia as he made 94 runs off 90 balls with the help of 9 boundaries and 4 towering sixes. Haddin on the other hand scored 88 runs off 84 balls in which he struck 11 fours and a couple of massive hits out of the park.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Henry-Osinde-c62693, Harvir Baidwan and John Davison picked up a wicket each for Canada but could not stop the Aussies to chase down the total set by their batsmen earlier in the day.
Shane Watson was named as the Man of the Match for his outstanding knock and an important wicket in the Canadian innings.
This was a good practice game for Australia ahead of their all-important encounter against Pakistan. It was also the 34th consecutive victory for the Aussies in World Cup matches which is quite a commendable achievement and a record which might
remain unbeaten for a number of years to come.
On the other hand, Canada have some positives to take from this match as their top order batsmen did put up a good fight against the Aussie fast bowlers, which is a good sign for the future of Canadian cricket as they just need to work on their consistency.
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