West Indies captain Jason Holder gained the toss and despatched Australia in to bat on pitch anticipated to supply one thing for the bowlers early earlier than flattening out. The three times I was bowled if you look at them in isolation they were three different errors that caused me to get bowled. We have proven that we are definitely capable of playing at this level.
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“It’s obviously very nice when you read that sort of stuff, for the coach to come out and say that”, Marsh told reporters at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Wednesday. “But it’s a new game”.
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Despite a crushing loss in the first Test, the West Indies – who last won a series in Australia in the 1992-93 season – is pumped to turn things around.
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The Australian team is focused on the test match and have few concerns before tomorrow’s big one. “But I know that all the criticism that we’ve received since before coming here has hurt and all I can hope is that it pushes them as much as it pushes me to push them to do the work – it pushes them to do well on the field”.
One player whose spot for Boxing Day looks assured is opener Rajendra Chandrika, who has scored three ducks in his first four Test innings and has 25 in the other.
“It is frustrating that we don’t have them yet playing in a Test series but it’s something that’s been going on for a while”.
Khawaja missed Australia’s last two Tests with hamstring trouble, after scoring 174 and 121 in the first two Tests against New Zealand last month.
The Queensland left-hander slotted again into quantity three within the batting order, with Australia captain Steve Smith dropping again right down to his most popular quantity 4 place.
“The wickets were a little bit exhausted and it was hard to get a lot of timing so I was getting a little bit frustrated out there”, Smith said. With plenty to play for, the visitors will need a monumental improvement in the all important Boxing Day Test starting on Saturday at the historic MCG.
West Indies lost Shannon Gabriel to an ankle injury in Hobart and have replaced him with fellow paceman Carlos Brathwaite. “We were in the driver’s seat”, he said.
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In their drawn warm-up match against Victoria X1, Brathwaite followed-up his Test performance with a score of 78, Jermaine Blackwood rebounded from failing in the first Ttest to get off the mark twice with a score of 69, while Marlon Samuels and Denesh Ramdin scored 45 and 38, respectively.
