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Aus through to Super Eights

AFP, Colombo
Australia qualified for the Super Eights round of the World Twenty20 by defeating the West Indies in a rain-interrupted group B
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match in ColomboonSaturday.
Australia, chasing a challenging target of 192, were 100-1 in9.1 overswhenheavyrain forcedthematchtobecalledoffin front of 18,000 fans at the Premadasastadium.
The Aussies, who were ahead of the par score of 83 at that stage, won by 17 runs, according to the Duckworth-Lewismethod.
Australia's second successive win - they beat Ireland by seven wickets on Wednesday -- leaves the West Indies and Ireland battling for the otherSuper Eights spotfromthegrouponMonday.
The weather ruined a keen finish with Australia edging ahead, needing92 more from 65 ballswithnine wickets inhand.
David Warner hit 28 in an opening stand of 30 with Shane Watson, before Mike Hussey joinedWatsontoadd70in42balls forthe unbroken secondwicket
Watson was unbeaten on 41 off 24 balls with three sixes and two boundaries. Hussey was on 28with threefbursandasix.
Earlier, the West Indies posted 191-8 following attacking half-centuries from Chris Gayle and MarlonSamuels.
Left-handed Gayle smashed 54 off 33 balls and Samuels plundered 50 from 32 balls after the West Indies elected to bat in their first match of the tournament
SriLankanfansweretreatedto a flurry of strokes as Gayle hit four sixes and five boundaries and Samuels chipped in with four sixes and three fours.
Australia rued a dropped catch at third man by Watson when Gayle was on four; as the opener pounded young fast bowler Pat Cummins for 18 runs in the fifth over.
When Gayle reached his half-century off 26 balls in the ei^ith over; the West Indies had moved toapromising80-2.
He put on 39 in 23 balls for the second wicket with Johnson Charles (16) and 46 for the third withSamuels.
Watson avenged his error by holding a high return catch to dismiss Gayle off the first ball of the 11th over, but Samuels took over to destroy the Australian