Fast bowler Brett Lee [ Images ] struck twice in three balls to help Australia [ Images ] A to a 51-run win over West Indies [ Images ] in a one-day tour match in Hobart on Sunday.
Lee, unable to break into the Test side this season, helped reduce the tourists to 192 all out after Australia A had made 243 for nine with Mike Hussey [ Images ] (70) and all rounder Cameron White [ Images ] (59) impressing. West Indies paceman Reon King took three for 61.
The touring side were without captain Brian Lara [ Images ], who has returned to Melbourne [ Images ] to prepare for Monday's tsunami fundraising match after hitting a glorious 116 in the four-wicket win over Australia A on Saturday.
Chris Gayle [ Images ] (43) and Wavell Hinds (53) put on 59 for the first wicket and Ramnaresh Sarwan [ Images ] (35) and Marlon Samuels (31) also got starts for the tourists.
However, Hinds was adjudged lbw to James Hopes [ Images ] to make the score 115 for three in the 25th over, although the ball appeared to have pitched outside the left hander's leg stump.
Sarwan fell to spinner Nathan Hauritz [ Images ] at 158 for four and Samuels was run out 15 runs later, triggering a lower order collapse with no batsmen in the bottom six reaching double figures.
Lee then struck in the 41st and his final over, removing Dwayne Bravo [ Images ] for five and Mervyn Dillon for a duck.
Pedro Collins and King failed to trouble the scorers as they fell in consecutive balls two overs later.
West Indies, who have had a three-month break since winning the ICC [ Images ] Champions Trophy [ Images ] in September, play Australia in Melbourne on January 14 in the opening match of a triangular one-day tournament also involving Pakistan.

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