The number three ranked nation in the 50-over format, Australia, take on West Indies, lodged at eighth.
Now, while in the recently concluded five-match Twenty20 series, rankings proved of little significance since West Indies outplayed the higher-ranked Australia, this longer format could prove more testing for the hosts when the first of three One-Day Internationals gets underway Tuesday in Barbados.
West Indies, buoyed by a clean sweep of Sri Lanka in March, and the Aussies batting depleted with the likes of David Warner and Steve Smith missing, Head Coach Phil Simmons still feels the Australians will come with stronger grit in this format.

“Every series you go into, you look for full points, you looking to win all three games; Australians are not going to be an easy target, they play well in all-formats, they will be coming stronger especially after losing the T20 series, so, we got to make sure to continue and add to where we finished against Sri Lanka”, the West Indies coach indicated at a virtual briefing on Sunday.
These three matches form part of the inaugural ICC Super League which takes place across two years and aims to raise the stakes of bilateral 50-over games.
In its first edition, the Super League will help decide which teams feature in the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in India.

Australia is third on the current standing with 40 points from six matches while West Indies are ninth with 30 points from six matches. Each team gets ten points for a victory.
In their last series against Sri Lanka, all three of the West Indies top-order batsmen, Shai Hope, Evin Lewis and Darren Bravo, got hundreds, and Simmons wants one of them to bat through the innings so they can post or chase totals in excess of 300 which is the new norm in the format.
“We are looking forward to the way we batted to continue, and improvements have to be made in the middle-overs from 20-39 in order for us to get from 280-290 to the 320-330 which we will need against an Australian team to be winning games.”

The Head Coach said that captain Kieron Pollard, who missed the entire T20I series due to injury, “should be fit” for Tuesday’s opener.
The match time is 14:30hrs.
West Indies Squad: Kieron Pollard (Captain), Shai Hope (Vice-Captain), Fabian Allen, Darren Bravo, Roston Chase, Sheldon Cottrell, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Evin Lewis, Jason Mohammed, Anderson Philip, Nicholas Pooran and Romario Shepherd.
Australia Squad: Australia squad: Aaron Finch (capt), Ashton Agar, Wes Agar, Jason Behrendorff, Alex Carey, Dan Christian, Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Marsh, Riley Meredith, Ben McDermott, Josh Philippe, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa.