West Indies vs Australia Match Prediction & Betting Tips, T20 World Cup Warm Up 2024
West Indies and Australia will face each other in the 12th warm up match of the T20 World Cup 2024. The match is scheduled to take place at Queen’s Park Oval in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 30th May, starting at 4:30 AM (May 31) IST.
Co-hosts of the T20 World Cup, West Indies have been in good form lately as they defeated South Africa by 3-0 in a T20I series just before the start of the Warm-Up matches. Australia is among the favourites to win the trophy this year and they looked in positive form in the first match when they defeated Namibia by 7 wickets.
Take a look at the detailed predictions for the 12th warm up match between West Indies and Australia.
WI vs AUS, Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad Pitch Report
The pitch at Queen’s Park Oval offers a balanced track as the ball grips well here and both pacers and spinners are able to pick wickets. Batting is a bit of a struggle and players need to settle well before going for big shots. The average innings score is around 155.
Read on for team previews, betting tips, latest odds, and match prediction for West Indies vs Australia, T20 World Cup Warm Up Match 2024
West Indies Team News & Playing 11
WI Team News
West Indies was without some of their top T20 players in South Africa and they still won the series. One change has been reported as injured all-rounder Jason Holder has been replaced by Obed McCoy.
WI Team Batting
The top batters for West Indies will be Brandon King and Nicholas Pooran. Brandon King led the Windies in the South Africa series and finished as the highest run scorer of the series with 159 runs in 3 matches at a strike rate of 167. Nicholas Pooran had a brilliant season at IPL scoring 499 runs in 14 matches.
WI Team Bowling
West Indies’ top bowlers will be Gudakesh Motie and Obed McCoy. Both the players were in good form in the South Africa series. Motie finished as the top bowler with 8 wickets in 3 matches and McCoy took 5 wickets. Motie has a bowling average of 16.54 in 8 T20Is.
WI Team Form
West Indies will be in confident form after clean sweeping South Africa and playing at their home grounds.
West Indies Predicted Playing 11
Rovman Powell (c), Shimron Hetmyer, Brandon King, Sherfane Rutherford, Roston Chase, Andre Russell, Obed McCoy, Johnson Charles, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Romario Shepherd, Akeal Hosein, Gudakesh Motie
Australia Team News & Playing 11
AUS Team News
Australia will give a chance to the players who did not play in the first warm up match. West Indies will not be an easy target like Namibia and the Aussies know it well.
AUS Team Batting
The top batters from Australia will be David Warner and Travis Head. Both the players had a great outing in the IPL 2024. Warner smashed 54 off 21 deliveries in the first warm up match against Namibia. Head was among the top 5 batters of the IPL 2024 with 567 runs.
AUS Team Bowling
The top bowlers for Australia will be Adam Zampa and Mitchell Starc. Starc had a brilliant outing in the IPL knockout matches and Zampa was impressive in the first warm up match where he finished with 3/25 in 4 overs.
AUS Team Form
As mentioned above, Australia is one of the favourites to lift the trophy this year. They have won 3 out of 4 T20I series since the last T20 World Cup in 2022.
Australia Predicted Playing 11
Mitchell Marsh (c), Matthew Wade (wk), Travis Head, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis (wk), Tim David, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Adam Zampa, Josh Hazlewood, Ashton Agar, Marcus Stoinis, Cameron Green, Nathan Ellis
🏆 West Indies vs Australia Prediction
West Indies and Australia have a neck to neck fight in the head to head stats as both the teams have won 11 matches each in 22 encounters. It is going to be an exciting contest between these and seeing the dominance of West Indies at the home grounds, we back them to win this warm up match against Australia. They are in better momentum after the South Africa series and the IPL 2024.
