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Australia managed to secure five outright wins in a row against the West Indies to wash sweep the five-match T20I series.
Australia whitewash the West Indies in five-match T20I series. (Picture Credit: AFP)
The Australia men’s cricket team created history on Tuesday (July 29) by becoming the primary team on this planet to win a five-match T20I series against a Test-playing nation with a scoreline of 5-0. The 2021 T20 World Cup winners faced the West Indies in a five-match T20I series from July 21 to 29 and, under the leadership of Mitchell Marsh, won all five games.
Prior to now on multiple occasions, teams have won bilateral T20I series against a Test-playing nation with a scoreline of 4-1, but no team before Australia managed to secure five outright wins in a 5-match T20I series against any Test-playing nation.
Results of West Indies-Australia T20I series 2025
| DATE (IST) | WINNER | LOSER | MARGIN | POTM | VENUE |
| July 21 | Australia | West Indies | 3 wickets | Mitchell Owen | Jamaica |
| July 23 | Australia | West Indies | 8 wickets | Josh Inglis | Jamaica |
| July 26 | Australia | West Indies | 6 wickets | Tim David | St. Kitts |
| July 27 | Australia | West Indies | 3 wickets | Glenn Maxwell | St. Kitts |
| July 29 | Australia | West Indies | 3 wickets | Ben Dwarshuis | St. Kitts |
The primary-ever T20I match was played between Latest Zealand and Australia in Auckland on February 17, 2005, and the first-ever five-match T20I bilateral series was played between Latest Zealand and England in November 2019.
In January-February 2020, India defeated Latest Zealand 5-0 within the five-match T20I series played in Latest Zealand, but in that series, India won the third and fourth T20Is within the super over.
Biggest win margins in 5-match T20I series (full-member nation)
| YEAR | VENUE | WINNER | LOSER | SCORELINE | WINNING CAPTAIN |
| 2025 | West Indies | Australia | West Indies | 5-0 | Mitchell Marsh |
| 2020 | Latest Zealand | India | Latest Zealand | 5-0 (2 super overs) | Virat Kohli |
| 2025 | Latest Zealand | Latest Zealand | Pakistan | 4-1 | Michael Bracewell |
| 2025 | India | India | England | 4-1 | Suryakumar Yadav |
| 2024 | Zimbabwe | India | Zimbabwe | 4-1 | Shubman Gill |
| 2024 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Zimbabwe | 4-1 | Najmul Hossain Shanto |
| 2024 | Latest Zealand | Latest Zealand | Pakistan | 4-1 | Kane Williamson & Mitchell Santner |
| 2024 | India | India | Australia | 4-1 | Suryakumar Yadav |
| 2022 | West Indies & USA | India | West Indies | 4-1 | Rohit Sharma & Hardik Pandya |
| 2022 | Australia | Australia | Sri Lanka | 4-1 | Aaron Finch |
| 2021 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Australia | 4-1 | Mahmudullah |
| 2021 | West Indies | West Indies | Australia | 4-1 | Nicholas Pooran |
For Australia within the five-match T20I series against the West Indies, Tim David (37-ball century in third T20I), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Owen (fifty on T20I debut), Josh Inglis, and Cameron Green impressed with their batting performances, and the likes of Ben Dwarshuis, Adam Zampa, and Nathan Ellis made headlines for his or her bowling performances.
Within the fifth and final T20I of the series played on Monday (Tuesday IST), the Aussies bowled the West Indies team out for 170 in 19.4 overs. Other than Shimron Hetmyer (52 runs from 31 balls), other West Indies batters didn’t do much with the bat, and three of them were sent back to the pavilion by Dwarshuis, who conceded 41 runs in his quota of 4 overs.
For the visitors, other than Dwarshuis, Ellis also picked up two wickets for 32 runs in 3.4 overs, and one West Indies batter each was dismissed by Aaron Hardie, Sean Abbott, Maxwell, and Zampa.
Within the 171-run chase, Owen top-scored for Mitchell Marsh & Co. He hammered 37 runs from just 17 balls after coming out to bat at No. 6, and Tim David added 30 runs from 12 balls to Australia’s total of 173/7 in 17 overs. All-rounder Green, who won the Player of the Series award, also scored 32 runs from just 18 balls.
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