West Indian cricket team in Australia in 2000–01
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West Indies cricket team The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed the Windies, is a multi-national men's cricket team representing the mainly Commonwealth Caribbean, English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region and administered by Cricket West I ...
toured Australia in the 2000–01 cricket season. They played five
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es against
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, and also competed in a
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series that also involved
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...
.


Test series

Australia won the Test series 5–0, the first time the West Indies had been whitewashed by Australia since the 1930–31 series.


1st Test


2nd Test


3rd Test


4th Test


5th Test


One Day series

The one day series, sponsored by
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, was played between Australia, Zimbabwe and the West Indies. The West Indies and Australia qualified for the finals, in which Australia won the first two matches in Melbourne and Sydney. Hence a deciding final match was not required.


References

* ''Playfair Cricket Annual'' * ''Wisden Cricketers Almanack'' (annual)


External links


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