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The West Indies versus Australia T20I records may certainly seem a compelling narrative especially because it's T20, therefore, the shortest format of the contest and it's, unless one is hugely mistaken, the sport's most popular current narrative. But, where on the one hand, the West Indies are multiple time world cup winners with cups lifted in 2012 and 2016, the Aussies have won the T20 world cup just once in 2021. Having said that the West Indies versus Australia T20I records also bring us to confront a team that despite playing at home has contested rather misrerably in the most recent times, being 27 all-out in Test cricket, a certain abomination of sorts that with the coming of the shorter format games does beckon a reversal of fortunes. Isn't it?
Shai Hope, the captain of the Windies white-ball leadership, including the T20I's will hope for a turnaround and the technically correct Bajan, who was himself part of that listless or should one say horrible collapse, will hope to play a part with the bat. Pooran isn't there one must remember, which is why against particularly challenging forces like Starc, Hope's role becomes all important.
But what will happen with Australia? Who from their eminent ranks might rise to counter-attack the Windies, should the hopefully-evenly-contested-series actually become an utterly dominant attack of the Kangaroos? It's all to play for and that is why it's imperative to watch out for the West Indies versus Australia T20I records ahead of their five-match series in the Caribbean starting later this month.
List of key West Indies vs Australia T20I records
Head-to-Head
The two teams stand squared with 11 wins each from the 22 contests played so far. They are, therefore, at par and the same time, will be at loggerheads in what's to come in just a few hours' time.
Interestingly, both West Indies and Australia have won six of their 11 T20I contests on home turf.
On neutral grounds, the West Indies have won three contests against Australia with the Aussies having won two games.
Highest team totals
It is the 241 for 4 that the Australians made back in the day against the West Indies during the Caribbean side's tour Down Under in 2024. The game was played at Perth and Glenn Maxwell delivered a belter of a knock, truly speaking, a "Big Show" taking just 55 deliveries to score 120 unbeaten runs. The West Indies did try to fight back, scoring 207 runs of which then-captain, Rovman Powell scored a fine 63.
This is an interesting addition to the West Indies versus Australia T20I records.
Lowest team totals
15 years back in the day, despite playing at home in the Caribbean, at Gros Isle to be precise, the West Indians were bowled out for 105, which truth be told, besides being their lowest ever team score against Australia shouldn't really surprise one too much. Sarcasm be damned, when a Test match team featuring prominent names like Chase, Hope among others can collapse- as it did - for just 27 runs, should a 105-run total be even chastised? How unfair!
Seven batters, it ought to be reminded, had gotten out for single-digit scores on that occasion, in that very forgettable day, including the likes of Gayle himself, DJ Bravo, Deonarine, Ramdin, and Sammy.
On the other hand, the lowest that Australia ever scored as an entire team was 127 runs that they made - rather interestingly - at this very same ground of Gros Islet, 11 years later in 2021.
Fortunately, the West Indies would go on to win that game by 18 runs thanks to a Russell and Obed McCoy show; while the belligerent right hander struck a few powerful blows in his 51-run knock, the Windies left arm medium fast from Barbados took four wickets.
The above, therefore, is something that though startling, is a reminder of strange outings with the bat in the list of contests featuring - West Indies versus Australia T20I records.
Highest individual totals
While no West Indian batter in all these years of playing T20I cricket against the Australians has ever managed to reach a century or a three-figure-score, Gayle scoring 88 (the highest ever T20I score by a Windies bat), Australia's Glenn Maxwell did breach past the three-figure-mark.
He scored a fantastic 120 unbeaten run knock that came off just 55 odd deliveries in a 70-minute stay at the wicket a little over a year back in the day. That game resutled in an Australian win.
On the other hand, Gayle's knock came off just 50 deliveries and was an exhibition of power and panache and that too, at The Oval, a decade and a half back in the day, when he was at his peak, should one put it that way, circa 2009.
Therefore, the above being fine additions to the list of West Indies versus Australia T20I records.
Best bowling figures
Mitchell Starc took four wickets by conceding just 20 runs in a T20I played against the West Indies back in 2022, at Brisbane. He restricted the Windies, who batted second, to 147 by taking the big key wickets of Mayers, Pooran, Odean Smith, and even Jason Holder.
No other bowler, whether from Australia or the West Indies' end has managed to take a fifer thus far in the 22 contests played between the sides.
FAQs
Which team holds the edge over the other in T20I's between WI and Aus?
Rather interestingly, both teams have scored the exact same number of wins, 11 apiece.
What is Australia's highest team total vs WI in a single T20I?
In February of 2024, Australia made 241 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in a Perth-bound contest, wininng it in the end easily by 34 runs, even as it seemed their opponents had come close enough.
