Toss Australia chose to bat v West Indies
Ricky Ponting's first act in his 300th one-day international was to win the toss and bat in the second ODI in Grenada. Luke Ronchi was included for his first one-day international after Brad Haddin was sent back to Australia to give his broken finger the best chance of recovery.
Australia made no other changes to the team that won the first ODI in St Vincent, while West Indies made three alterations as they aim to level the series. As expected, Shivnarine Chanderpaul came back having missed the first game with a leg injury but West Indies lost another senior player with Ramnaresh Sarwan missing out due to a groin problem.
Patrick Browne also came in for his fifth one-day international, at the expense of the regular wicketkeeper Denesh Ramdin. Fidel Edwards was also left out and Daren Powell came in to the West Indies attack.
West Indies 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Xavier Marshall, 3 Andre Fletcher, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6 Kieron Pollard, 7 Patrick Browne (wk), 8 Darren Sammy, 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Sulieman Benn, 11 Daren Powell.
Australia 1 Shane Watson, 2 Shaun Marsh, 3 Ricky Ponting (capt), 4 Michael Clarke, 5 Michael Hussey, 6 Luke Ronchi (wk), 7 Cameron White, 8 James Hopes, 9 Brett Lee, 10 Mitchell Johnson, 11 Nathan Bracken.
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