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Australia batsman run riot in second Test against West Indies

Though Burns reached his century (second in Tests) first with a three off the very first delivery of the over, it was Khawaja who went down into the history books as he got the honour of hitting the 1000th century (all formats) for Australia two balls later.

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Khawaja and Burns posted a second-wicket stand of 258.


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The debutant Brathwaite played with a combination of determination and daring to register a 50 in his first Test innings, while Bravo dropped anchor in a dogged display where he sought to deny the Australians his wicket at all costs.


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“I’ll enjoy this moment, a hundred in my first Boxing Day Test, a 250-odd run partnership with Burnsy”.

“We are obviously going through some difficult times but we’ve got to be patient we’ve got to keep working hard and for me the most important thing is to get the systems right back in the Caribbean because that’s where it’s got to start”.

“You will have to ask the skipper but we will have fresh bowlers with a ball that is probably still reversing and we can get stuck into their tail and see what happens”, Voges said. On home soil against the same opponents on Sunday, he celebrated his fourth ton, another unbeaten knock of 106 which helped set up Australia’s mammoth first innings declaration of 551 for 3. Khawaja’s runs came off 227 balls in 331 minutes with just six fours and a six.

Not since October has Khawaja been dismissed for less than 100 in any format of the game.

Burns also made a personal statement with his ton amid concerns over his position in the side with the return of Khawaja. India and New Zealand occupy the second spot jointly with 7 centuries.

Blackwood was looking good on 28 having smashed 4 fours and 1 six.

The dramatic collapse in the final session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground left the tourists 261 runs short of making their hosts bat again.

They weren’t scoring too many runs but to have gotten to almost 24 overs for the loss of just a wicket looked a bit of an improvement from the previous two innings.

Bravo was 15 off 102 balls at one point but kicked on following a freewheeling 59 from Brathwaite.

“It was surprising”, allrounder Kraigg Brathwaite said.

“Obviously (have to) try to be build some pressure to not let them score so freely”, said the spinner.

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Warner fired off five boundaries as he raced to 23 from 11 balls before top-edging a pull at Jerome Taylor that Marlon Samuels held at the third attempt.

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