KOLKATA–Cap­tain Dar­ren Sam­my's ag­gres­sive, un­beat­en half-cen­tu­ry led a de­ter­mined low­er or­der ral­ly as West In­dies beat Aus­tralia by three wick­ets with a ball spare, in their fi­nal of­fi­cial warm-up match of the Twen­ty20 World Cup here yes­ter­day.

Rocked by seam­er Josh Ha­zle­wood's hat-trick in the fourth over to be tot­ter­ing on 49 for five in the ninth over, West In­dies re­cov­ered bril­liant­ly to reach their tar­get of 162 at Eden Gar­dens, thanks to ex­act­ly 50 off 28 balls from Sam­my.

All-rounder Car­los Brath­waite smashed 33 from just 14 de­liv­er­ies while An­dre Rus­sell blast­ed 29 from 15 balls, as West In­dies scored over ten runs per over in the fi­nal half of the in­nings as they gath­ered 106 runs from the last 59 balls.

The re­vival start­ed with a 23-run, sixth wick­et stand be­tween Sam­my and Rus­sell, and con­tin­ued with an ex­hil­a­rat­ing 53-run, sev­enth wick­et stand off 23 balls be­tween Sam­my and Brath­waite.

Sam­my belt­ed six fours and a six while Rus­sell count­ed a four and three six­es but it was Brath­waite's cameo � which in­clud­ed three fours and two six­es � that gave West In­dies much need­ed im­pe­tus.

He and Sam­my com­bined to plun­der 17 runs from the 15th over sent by pac­er Mitchell Marsh and they fol­lowed up by tak­ing an­oth­er 17 runs from the next over from seam­er An­drew Tye (2-35).

When Brath­waite per­ished in the same Tye over, Sam­my and Ash­ley Nurse, who fin­ished on 12 not out, then post­ed a vi­tal 37 in an un­bro­ken eighth wick­et part­ner­ship to see West In­dies home safe­ly.

Ha­zle­wood's hat-trick had ear­li­er hand­ed Aus­tralia the ad­van­tage. He claimed Ja­son Hold­er � pro­mot­ed to open­er � for six with the sec­ond ball of his sec­ond over and then bowled Mar­lon Samuels and Dwayne Bra­vo with­out scor­ing off suc­ces­sive de­liv­er­ies.

Open­er John­son Charles (14) and De­nesh Ramdin (11) al­so fell cheap­ly to leave West In­dies in deep trou­ble.

Opt­ing to bat first ear­li­er, Aus­tralia start­ed strong­ly but were pegged back by medi­um pac­er Bra­vo and left-arm spin­ner Sulie­man Benn, to fin­ish on 161 for nine off their 20 overs.

Bra­vo claimed four for 21 and Benn, three for 37, as the Aussies de­clined from 106 for one in the 12th over to lose eight wick­ets for 55 runs.

Open­er Shane Wat­son top-scored with 60 from 39 balls, strik­ing four fours and four six­es. He put on 76 for the first wick­et with Aaron Finch who scored 33 from 24 balls, and a fur­ther 30 for the sec­ond wick­et with cap­tain Steve Smith whose 36 re­quired 29 balls.

Brath­waite was bril­liant in his three overs of seam, tak­ing three for 16.

West In­dies will now turn their at­ten­tion to their open­ing group game of the T20 World Cup at the Wankhede Sta­di­um in Mum­bai where they take on Eng­land on Wednes­day.

SCORE­BOARD

Aus­tralia vs West In­dies

AUS­TRALIA

A Finch c Hold­er b Benn 33

S Wat­son c Nurse b Bra­vo 60

S Smith lbw b Bra­vo 36

U Khawa­ja c wkp Ramdin b Brath­waite 5

G Maxwell b Benn 0

M Marsh c Sam­my b Benn 2

P Nevill c Ramdin b Brath­waite 4

J Hast­ings b Bra­vo 10

A Zam­pa b Bra­vo 2

A Tye not out 0

Ex­tras (lb4, w4, nb1) 9

TO­TAL (9 wk­ts, 20 overs) 161

FOW: 1-76, 2-106, 3-114, 4-115, 5-117, 6-136, 7-151, 8-160, 9-161.

Bowl­ing: Rus­sell 3-0-22-0, Tay­lor 3-0-31-0 (w1), Hold­er 1-0-15-0 (nb1), DJ Bra­vo 4-0-21-4, Benn 4-0-37-3, Nurse 2-0-15-0 (w1), Brath­waite 3-0-16-2 (w2).

WEST IN­DIES

J Charles c Maxwell b Smith 14

J Hold­er lbw b Ha­zle­wood 6

M Samuels b Ha­zle­wood 0

DJ Bra­vo b Ha­zle­wood 0

D Ramdin lbw b Zam­pa 11

A Rus­sell c Finch b Tye 29

D Sam­my not out 50

C Brath­waite c Maxwell b Tye 33

A Nurse not out 12

Ex­tras (lb4, w3) 7

TO­TAL (7 wk­ts, 19.5 overs) 162

FOW: 1-18, 2-18, 3-18, 4-27, 5-49, 6-72, 7-125.

Bowl­ing: Wat­son 4-0-36-0 (w2), Ha­zle­wood 4-1-13-3, Marsh 4-0-28-0, Zam­pa 4-0-35-1 (w1), Smith 1-0-11-1, Tye 2.5-0-35-2.