Skipper Steve Smith declared on Australia’s overnight second innings total of 179 for three for a 459-run lead.
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West Indies enjoyed by far their best day of the second Test on day three but Australia remained firmly in the box seat at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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West Indies captain Holder (68) arrived at the crease with the score at 150-5 and showed tremendous patience and leadership under pressure to form a 100-run partnership with Ramdin (59).
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The damage was done by left-arm spinner Nathan Lyon (2-18), along with fast bowlers Peter Siddle (2-19) and James Pattinson (2-36), all of whom picked up two wickets apiece to wreck the Windies innings.
Darren Bravo scored a fighting half-century to anchor a feisty rearguard action before West Indies were bowled out for 271 on the stroke of tea on day three of the second test against Australia on Monday. It was the first century partnership of the series for the embattled Windies.
“Not only to get to five, the goal is obviously to win”, he added of next week’s dead rubber test in Sydney.
West Indies’ Jason Holder walks off the pitch after being dismissed by Australia during their cricket test match in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015.
“We probably showed a lot more belief when we went into bat”, Holder told reporters. “I’m still disappointed we didn’t put up a better fight but still credit to the way the guys played, especially Darren Bravo in the first innings and Denesh Ramdin in the second innings”.
David Warner caught Kemar Roach (11) off James Pattinson (2-49) before the bowler finished the game in the outfield with an extraordinary catch after Jerome Taylor (0) attempted to slog a Marsh ball into the stands.
The former West Indies skipper, however, admitted that his side were going through hard times and, therefore, called on them to display a concerted effort.
The West Indies had been slammed for their poor attitude in the first Test, which they lost by an innings and 212 runs, and there were question marks raised about some of the players.
Pattinson had two wickets denied to him for overstepping on Sunday s third day, and to Australia s frustration it was the wicket-less Hazlewood s turn on the fourth day.
At the interval Smith had scored 1,360 runs ahead of Cook’s 1,357 with England now playing South Africa in Durban.
“I don’t know what the plan is tomorrow but we’ll be bowling at some stage so we just have to be up for that”.
“We had an easy game in the last game so it’s time to step it up and hopefully bowl a few overs in this one”, Pattinson said.
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Openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Rajendra Chandrika had negotiated a nervous hour to tea however their onerous work was undone straight after the break by Lyon.
