Stats: Samuels scored his first 50 against Australia

Statistical highlights of the World Twenty20 [ Images ] group match between Australia [ Images ] and West Indies [ Images ] played in Colombo on Saturday.

# Marlon Samuels's 50 off 32 balls is his first fifty against Australia -- his third in Twenty20 Internationals.

# Samuels has recorded two fifties in a losing cause in T20s.

# Mitchell Starc (3/35) has posted his second best bowling figures in T20s -- his best ever is 3 for 11 against Pakistan at Dubai [ Images ] (DSC) on September 10, 2012.

# West Indies (191 for eight) have posted the highest total in two West Indies-Australia T20 Internationals. This score is West Indies' second highest in the ICC [ Images ] World Twenty20, next only to the 205 for six against South Africa [ Images ] at Johannesburg on September 11, 2007.

# West Indies' total is the joint third highest score in a losing cause in the ICC World Twenty20. West Indies' 205 for six against South Africa at Johannesburg on September 11, 2007 is the lowest score.

# Michael Hussey [ Images ] has become the first Australian batsman to manage 300 runs in the ICC World Twenty20 -- 320 runs at an average of 45.71 in 17 matches.

# Shane Watson [ Images ] (2/29 + 41 not out) has been adjudged the Man of the Match for the sixth time in T20s. His tally is an Australian record.

# David Warner, with 290 runs at an average of 41.42 in seven games, including three fifties, is the highest run-scorer in Australia-West Indies Twenty20 Internationals.

# Australia's win by 17 runs under D/L method is their fifth in eight games against the West Indies in Twenty20 Internationals.

# In the ICC World Twenty20, Australia have won two and lost one out of three contested against the West Indies.

# Eleven sixes have been posted in the West Indies' total -- their best ever tally against Australia in T20s while 17 sixes in the match is a record in the West Indies-Australia T20s.

# Chris Gayle's [ Images ] superb 54 off 33 balls is his second fifty against Australia -- his eighth in T20s.

# Gayle's aggregate of 496 runs in 12 matches at an average of 45.09, including a hundred and four half-centuries, is the highest by a West Indian in the ICC World Twenty20.

# Only Mahela Jayawardene [ Images ] (632) and Kevin Pietersen [ Images ] (580) have managed more runs than Gayle in the ICC World Twenty20.

# Gayle's strike rate of 154.51 is the highest by any batsman in the ICC World Twenty20.