West Indies vs Australia 2025: third T20 Preview & Betting Suggestions

The sequence heads to St Kitts on Saturday morning with Australia trying to take an unassailable 3-0 sequence lead towards West Indies. Can Australia make it three wins on the bounce and declare the sequence victory? Or will the West Indies get on the winners record and preserve the sequence alive? Motion will get underway in Basseterre, St Kitts, on Saturday July 26 from 9am AEST.

Try our preview and betting ideas for the third T20I conflict beneath, with odds due to Dabble!

The West Indies bowling assault was torn aside for a second recreation, as Australia chased down the goal of 173 in simply 15.2 overs. Alzarri Joseph was taken to the cleaners with figures of 1/50 off simply 3 overs, whereas Andre Russell (economic system fee of 16), Gudakesh Motie (11), Roston Chase (10.5), and Jason Holder (9.3) have been all costly. Solely Akeal Hosein (0/31 off 4) went at an economic system fee of underneath 9. 

Similar to recreation one, the Windies received off to a flying begin with the bat, sitting at 0/63 within the seventh over after Brandon King smashed 51 off simply 36 deliveries. The West Indies then misplaced 5/35 within the subsequent 5 overs, which stalled their innings in a expensive method. Andre Russell whacked 36 off 15 and Gudakesh Motie 18* off 9, helped the West Indies to eight/172, nevertheless it was by no means going to be sufficient on that batting floor. 

The West Indies have a aspect stacked filled with T20 expertise, so it’s exceptional they’ve struggled a lot on this sequence. Their center order batting has allow them to down in each video games and their bowling has been unable to limit the Australian batting lineup. With Andre Russell now out of the aspect, there is a chance for the Windies to shake up their aspect with some extra bowling depth.  

As soon as once more Australia’s batting unit had one other nice efficiency, led by an unbeaten 131 partnership between Josh Inglis and Cameron Inexperienced. Inglis smashed 78* off 33 with seven 4’s and 5 6’s, whereas Cam Inexperienced hit a second straight half century with 56* off 32. Inexperienced has began to return into his personal in T20 cricket, scoring 231 runs at a mean of 77 in his final six T20 internationals, with 4 scores above 36 in his final six video games. 

In recreation one it was Australia’s dying bowling that saved the West Indies to a chaseable rating, nevertheless it was the Aussies work between overs 8-14 which put the Windies in a serious gap. Australia took 5/35 in that timespan, and likewise took 3/9 in a 9 ball interval between overs 16.5 and 18.2, which included the important thing wickets of Andre Russell, Jason Holder and Rovman Powell. Adam Zampa was the decide of the bowlers with 3/29 and was nicely supported by Glenn Maxwell (2/15) and Nathan Ellis (2/34). 

Australia dropped Jake Fraser-McGurk for Tim David, and have been set to make use of Josh Inglis because the opener, however pivoted to utilizing Glenn Maxwell to focus on Akeal Hosein. Whether or not Australia preserve Inglis at three given his wonderful knock can be an element to look at for in recreation three.

With how nicely Australia are batting in the mean time, it’s troublesome to see the West Indies turning issues round given the type of their bowling assault. Warner Park has traditionally been extra suited to tempo bowling, which ought to additional play into Australia’s favour. Australia are taking part in wonderful T20 cricket and have received eight of their final 9 T20 Internationals. 

The West Indies have misplaced seven of their final eight T20I’s and simply can not discover consistency over the complete 20 overs in both innings. Their batting has proven glimpses, however they haven’t been capable of put collectively the total 20 overs that’s required to beat Australia. The Aussies will proceed their successful methods and transfer to a 3-0 sequence lead. 

It took a very long time for him to crack into the worldwide arrange, however Josh Inglis is changing into Australia’s most essential participant. In 2024 Inglis made 319 runs at a mean of 31 with a strike fee of 154 in T20 Internationals, and in 2025 is already averaging 96 throughout two innings. In his final 9 T20I innings for Australia, Inglis has scored 346 runs at a mean of 49.