Australia’s taken an unassailable 2-nil series lead in beating the West Indies by 177 runs in the second test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
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The hosts began the day on 179-3, with a lead of 459 runs, after dismissing their opponents for 271 on day three and opting to bat again as opposed to enforcing the follow-on.
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The no-ball was the third to deny Australia wickets in the match, with Pattinson reprieving fellow paceman Carlos Brathwaite twice on day three, allowing the Barbadian to score 59 on debut.
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Smith called a halt to Australias run plunder midway through the second day, while he was at the crease with Voges in an unbroken 223-run stand.
Voges was also unbeaten, his 106 off 166 balls the Western Australian’s fourth test century since his debut at the age of 35 against the same opponents on tour in Roseau.
Smith remained 70 not out when he made the declaration at the start of the fourth day and finished 2015 with most Test runs of 1,474 at 73.70.
But West Indies lost wickets in clusters.
Smith and Voges resumed on Sunday with Australia 345 for three, Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja having notched hundreds on Saturday, and continued to punish the lacklustre Windies attack.
But there was no hint of indifference as the fired-up Caribbean youngsters successfully riled David Warner, the only member of Australia’s top five yet to score a ton in the series. Khawaja and Burns posted a second-wicket stand of 258 on Saturday.
5 – Number of fifties scored by Darren Bravo, the most for any West Indies batsman this year in Tests. The last time Australia had four centurions in an innings overseas was against England in Cardiff in 2009. The next best is Pakistan’s 125 average in two Tests against Sri Lanka in 2009.
Carlos Brathwaite was not almost as successful in his second innings as a Test player as he was in his first, recording just two runs before he was bowled by Nathan Lyon.
James Pattinson (2-36) got the next when he trapped Chandrika (25) lbw to put the Windies in trouble at 50-2.
Pattinson needed only three more deliveries before dismissing Marlon Samuels lbw for a duck. Extras: (lb10, w4, nb2) 16.
Smith and Voges batted out 45 overs and built Australia’s tally from 345-3 to 551-3 in less than four hours of play, both scoring centuries in the process before Smith declared.
Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood briefly steadied the ship before Lyon ended their partnership by removing Blackwood (28) caught and bowled. Total: (6 wickets; 43 overs) 91.
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The right-handed Jamaican hammered two boundaries on either side of the wicket in the next over from seamer Josh Hazlewood and greeted the first ball of a new Lyon spell with a six over long-off.
