Fifth one-day international, St Kitts:
Australia 341-8 (50 overs) beat West Indies 172 (39.5 overs) by 169 runs

West Indies suffered a one-day series whitewash as Australia completed a 169-run victory in the fifth and final match at Warner Park.

Luke Ronchi hit 64 off 28 balls, while David Hussey scored a 19-ball half century to steer the tourists to 341-8.

Shawn Findlay (59 not out) was the only player to pass 50 for the hosts as they were all out for 172.

Australian bowler Mitchell Johnson took 5-29 to tear through the hosts, who only completed 39.5 of their 50 overs.

Chasing a challenging target, West Indies made a dreadful start, losing Marcus Gayle (five), Ramnaresh Sarwan (seven) and Xavier Marshall (17) to leave the innings teetering on 56-3

Shivnarine Chanderpaul injected some much-needed life into their effort before skying Michael Clarke to Brett Lee at long-off.

Findlay steadied the ship but Dwayne Bravo's dismissal - caught by David Hussey at long-on off Andrew Symonds - sparked a collapse.

Andre Fletcher and Denesh Ramdin soon followed but Findlay continued to push on and made his second one-day 50 with a single, though it became a one-man effort as the wickets tumbled.

Johnson picked up his third and fourth wickets, bowling Daren Powell comprehensively in the 36th over, and then having Nikita Miller caught by Shane Watson.

The bowler wrapped up the comfortable win - and his five-wicket haul - by taking the wicket of Fidel Edwards.

Earlier, Watson (29) and Shaun Marsh (49) put on 70 for the first wicket before Ronchi accelerated the innings, hitting six sixes in his maiden one-day international half century.

Australia then lost two wickets for as many runs when Ronchi and then Clarke went before Symonds (66) and Michael Hussey (51) put on 113 for the fifth wicket.

Edwards removed both Symonds and Hussey before Sarwan matched his three-wicket haul by snaffling David Hussey (52) and James Hopes with the last two balls of the innings.


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