Series draws have frustrated the team: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/George-Bailey-c1480 – Cricket News Update
Australia’s T20 captain George Bailey has claimed that the consecutive series draws against the Windies have frustrated the team, and made them eager to end the tour on a high note by clinching a series win in the upcoming Test fixtures.
“It doesn't sit well with us to come over here and draw two series,” he said.
“I know there's some boys in our one-day and Twenty20 camps who'd be pretty keen to actually win a series over here.”
The Aussies went into their Windies tour with high spirits, after winning the Commonwealth Bank series on home ground against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 earlier this year, but found the hosts up to the challenge.
While the tourists managed to clinch a 64-run victory in the first game of the 5-match ODI series, Darren Sammy’s men bounced back in the second one-day, and grabbed a 5-wicket win. With the third match ending on a tie, and luck favouring the home team once
again in the fourth ODI, the Windies team looked all set to end their 17-year drought by claiming an ODI series win against the Aussies – a feat they hadn’t accomplished since 1995.
However, the visitors, who are currently at the top of the ODI rankings, managed to avoid complete humiliation by claiming a 30-run win in the last ODI, ending the series on a 2-2 (5) draw.
The 2-match T20 series held a similar fate for the Aussies. They started off on a dominant position, claiming an 8-wicket win, but the Windies team came out fighting in the last match. Aided by a spectacular 63 off 34 balls courtesy http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DR-Smith-c1401, they set
their opponents a target of 161, and owing to the efforts of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804, both of whom claimed 3 scalps each, they managed to restrict the tourists to 146.
With the Test series due to begin on April 7 at the Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, Barbados, Bailey is convinced a last chance to achieve a series sweep will prove a powerful driving force for the Aussies.
“They'll be keen to certainly do that and I know the energy and the freshness of the guys coming in who are just playing the Test series will be a great thing as well,” he observed.
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