Australia included two spinners for the first time in a Sydney Test for 10 years and despite two lengthy rain delays, they still managed to bowl 75 overs.
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Left-arm orthodox spinner Stephen O’Keefe will play his second Test and join off-spinner Nathan Lyon in Australia’s first twin spin attack at the SCG since Shane Warne and Stuart MacGill took on South Africa in 2006. “He [Siddle] felt it wasn’t best for him to come into this Test match the way he is at the moment, the skipper said”.
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All-rounder Holder must take his share of the blame for that but it would take a hard heart not to feel some sympathy for a man thrown into the Test captaincy at the age of 23 a year ago.
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“Peter Siddle’s nonetheless a bit sore and he’ll have a relaxation for a few weeks and hopefully get himself proper for New Zealand”.
Australia’s ploy to play two spinners on an SCG pitch that is likely to remain the driest surface in metropolitan Sydney over coming days was vindicated when Nathan Lyon added yet another major milestone to an already extensive career record.
“I think that’s a pretty good wicket”.
That the hosts can afford to put out an experimental side in one of the more venerable fixtures in the Australian sporting calendar is not to say there will be nothing at stake when the match gets underway on Sunday.
The West Indies, who are playing in their first Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground in 15 years, are chasing their first Test win in Australia since 1997.
West Indies once again had a dodgy start, losing the right-handed Hope in the morning’s fifth over, sparring at an out-swinger from seamer Josh Hazlewood and nicking a catch behind.
“We need our bowlers to be a lot more disciplined. And, unfortunately, we’re missing out, all those guys who we groomed have now left, so we’re left with a vacuum and we now have to fill that”. Craig Brathwaite (85 runs) also missed a deserving century after he couldn’t handle the extra bounce and gloved Nathan Lyon to Steven Smith at slips.
The Windies are out to avoid a series whitewash following their 177-run defeat in the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne, having lost by an innings and 212 runs in the opening Test last month. “We’ve been allowing them to score both sides of the wicket, and we haven’t been able to contain them and control the game”.
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West Indies (from) – Kraigg Brathwaite, Rajendra Chandrika, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Jermaine Blackwood, Denesh Ramdin, Jason Holder (capt), Carlos Brathwaite, Kemar Roach, Jerome Taylor, Devendra Bishoo, Jomel Warrican.
