A new Bryan stars for Windies Rick Eyre - 11 April 1999 CricInfo report

The West Indies discovered a new hero at the Arnos Vale ground, St Vincent on Sunday - a new Bryan. Henderson Ricardo Bryan to be precise. The 28 year-old all-rounder from Barbados, known as Hendy for short, took 4/24 in ten overs on his one-day international debut to claim Man of the Match in the West Indies' 44-run victory over Australia.

The first of a seven-match series, the final preparations for either team before heading to England for the World Cup, began with Steve Waugh completing the customary Australian-captain-winning-of-the-toss, followed by sending the opposition into bat.

The Australian team suffered a few pre-match scares with a virus circulating in the touring camp. Adam Dale was unable to play and Glenn McGrath was rested. For the West Indies, Carl Hooper was unavailable due to illness, while Ridley Jacobs' broken nose suffered during the Fourth Test will keep him out of the first two one-day matches, Jimmy Adams taking the gloves again.

Victorian new-ball pair Damien Fleming and Paul Reiffel contained Sherwin Campbell and Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who was making his first international appearance after recovering from a shoulder injury. Chanderpaul (7) was first to go when he hit Fleming to fine leg immediately after scoring his one and only boundary. A lot was expected of Brian Lara after his extraordinary Test series, but when on 16 he fell in embarrassing fashion, mistiming a full toss from medium-pacer Shane Lee and holing out to Michael Bevan at mid-off.

Jimmy Adams played well for his 30 from 49 balls, before finding himself out of his ground from a Mark Waugh side-on direct hit on the stumps. Stuart Williams found himself on the receiving end of a fine Paul Reiffel over, failing to score when he misjudged a cover drive and was clean bowled.

When Campbell's innings of 62 ended on 146 for 5, the West Indian run rate had barely lifted itself above 4 an over. The remaining five wickets fell for the addition of 63 runs, Simmons the best of the later batsmen with 25.

Damien Fleming was the most penetrative of the Australian bowlers with 3/41, while Shanes Warne and Lee took two wickets apiece. Though the West Indies were rolled over in 48.1 overs for their 209 runs, the Australian bowlers conceded twenty wides (Julian 7, Fleming 5, Reiffel 5, Lee 3) and six no- balls. More than four overs' worth of illegal deliveries meant that the WI innings ran well into overtime, theustralians being justly penalised three overs when it was their turn to bat.

Adam Gilchrist, whose place in the side had been doubt on t:he eve of the game due to the team virus, made just two runsw before edging Mervyqn Dillon to keeper Adams. Mark Waugh and Ricky Ponting look ed set to build a threatening partnership when Hendy Bryan struck for the first time in international cricket. An incutter clipped Waugh's front pad and cannoned into the off-stump, the opening batsman gone for 28. Ponting (23) skied a catch off Dillon to Williams in the outfield.

Waugh Senior (10) became Bryan's second victim, Lehmann (24) was run out by a Lara direct hit. Bevan (1) and Lee (5) became wickets numbers three and four of Hendy Bryan, and Australia were down and out at 109 for 7 in the 28th over.

Brendon Julian (35 from 42 balls) provided some late entertainment, but when Damien Fleming was run out in the 42nd of Australia's 47 overs, they were all out for 165.

Bryan, almost unknown outside the Caribbean before yesterday's match, has shown himself to be a player to watch in the World Cup, even though his batting debut was uninspiring - a third ball duck at the hands of Shane Warne. The teams move on to St George's, Grenada for the second match of the series on Wednesday.

Australia have been forced to make one change to the squad originally named for the one-day series. Adam Dale will fly back to Australia for further treatment after being bed-ridden for the past three days with a mild bout of pneumonia. He is expected to be fit for the World Cup. Andy Bichel, who played one tour match on the Test leg of the tour, replaces Dale in the squad, having been placed on standby just half an hour before he was due to return home.