While Darren Bravo, Denesh Ramdin and skipper Jason Holder showed some resistance with the bat in Melbourne, the paucity of the West Indies bowling is starkly illustrated by the fact that they have taken just 10 wickets over the first two tests.
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When play resumed once more, Lyon took control of proceedings as he left Blackwood in a spin, knocking over off stump.
Day two of the Test was also ruined because of rain, with only 11.2 overs of play possible.
It has not gone unnoticed that while an inexperienced test side has succumbed to two heavy defeats on their current tour of Australia, a string of seasoned West Indies players are starring in the local Twenty20 Big Bash League.
“I think we need to strike a balance, and I’m not knocking T20 cricket because I love T20 cricket myself, but we just need to find a way where the country comes first and then we are flexible in terms of allowing people to make money outside of global cricket”, the 24-year-old said.
Weather permitting the Windies will start day four on Wednesday at 7-248 in the 87th over.
Australia’s bowlers emerged from the break re-energised, however, and James Pattinson got the breakthrough when Bravo’s miscued pull sent the ball flying to Usman Khawaja running in from the deep.
A result in the final Test of the summer is impossible, with days three and four washed out without a ball being bowled due to constant rain.
Play was then abandoned for day four.
Left arm orthodox spinner O’Keefe got his chance to bowl his first test deliveries on home soil 15 minutes before lunch and conceded six runs off his first three overs.
“But I was upset that once again I got a start and couldn’t carry on”.
Marlon Samuels was run out in a awful mid-pitch mix-up with Kraigg Brathwaite before the first rain interruption in the afternoon session.
Contrived results are prohibited, while the stigma of match-fixing is so strong that early declarations are nearly unheard of in Test and first-class cricket.
“It’s a long way off but I know that the chairman (Colin Graves) and chief executive of the European Central Bank are very progressive in their thinking about the game”, he added.
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The former paceman, who sits second on Australia’s list of Test wicket-takers with 563, couldn’t remember weather playing such a big role in any SCG clash.
