Twenty20 / Andy Morris / 11 May 2010 / Leave a comment Bet Now View Market

Virtually assured of their place in the ICC World Twenty20 semi-finals, Andy Morris thinks Australia will look to continue their impressive form with a win over the West Indies at Gros Islet.

An 81-run win over Sri Lanka highlighted the fact that Australia will take some beating in this tournament. Sri Lanka are no slouches in the 20-over form of the game and yet they were brushed aside.

However, the one area that the Aussies will want to look at is their top order, which has not been in the best of form.

Again it needed a big contribution from Mike Hussey, this time. However, Mr Cricket played second fiddle to the sublime batting of Cameron White whose 85 'not out' proved to be the key to victory.

Against Bangladesh, Hussey came to the rescue with a measured and confident innings and again at the Kensington Oval stood firm after Australia had looked in some trouble at 5-67.

Shane Watson and David Warner were out for a combined 10 runs, and Hussey's brother David was out first ball.

White, however, showed his true ability with some imperious strokes, clubbing both a half-dozen sixes and fours as he treated the Sri Lankan attack with contempt.

Mike Hussey supported him well, with a strike rate of 150 as he struck four fours in his unbeaten 39 that took Australia to 168 from their allotted overs.

Particularly given the top order's failings, that was a decent total, and it began to look massive when Australia's attack got stuck into Sri Lanka's reply, with Dirk Nannes taking 2-19 and Mitchell Johnson 3-15 from 3.2 overs.

Sri Lanka never really got going, losing wickets regularly to be 7-83 and then collapsing as their final three wickets brought just four more runs.

Skipper Michael Clarke was pleased with the performance, saying: "We know we have the talent and potential, it's just about coming out every time and executing our plans."

The West Indies will no doubt benefit from the home support, but given that they lost to Sri Lanka in their third game, the form line points quite clearly to an Australian victory in this Group F fixture.

The Windies have played well at times in the tournament - they did enough to get past England under the Duckworth-Lewis method in Providence and beat India by 14 runs in Bridgetown.

But they were beaten by 57 runs by the Sri Lankans in Bridgetown, and so the wise money is on Australia to win without much of a problem here.