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Brathwaite fireworks light up rainy Sydney Test
THE West Indies resume at 6-207, having won the toss but suffered a collapse of 5-55 late on day one of the three-Test series finale.
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“An early summer day-night Test at Sydney Cricket Ground would have to be a chance to draw a crowd greater than the 44,377 who watched that first day nighter in ’78. I raised my bat and looked around and it was a very, very good feeling …”
“I was very, very upset, not on the dismissal because I think it was a good nut – didn’t handle it as well as I could have though – but walking off I was upset that once again I got a start and couldn’t carry on”, Brathwaite said.
West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite pondered the positives at the conclusion of the day’s play. He scored 69 runs off 71 balls.
Brathwaite was uncharacteristically audacious, twice coming down to Lyon and lifting the bowler back overhead for boundaries.
Brathwaite, the Barbados allrounder, clouted two massive sixes off one James Pattinson over on his way to a dynamic 69 after lunch at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
To compound Samuels’ and his team’s woes, rain immediately forced the players from the field and kept them off until tea was taken.
Samuels pushed a Lyon delivery to point and set off for a run. Both he and Brathwaite started and stopped before Samuels was left stranded by the throw to the keeper’s end.
Off-spinner Lyon (2-68) produced a stunning delivery that pitched wide and turned in to take the bail off Jermaine Blackwood’s off stump for 10 and returned after the second rain break to remove dangerman Kraigg Brathwaite for 85.
An error in judgement caused his downfall, however, offering no stroke to one from Lyon that ripped back to hit off stump with West Indies on 131 for four.
Brathwaite, who along with Darren Bravo has been the best-performing batsman in the series for the struggling visitors, before he was deceived by Lyon’s extra bounce and attempted to steer the ball past slip.
He dismissed West Indian captain Jason Holder for one, Queenslander Joe Burns taking an impressive one-hand reflex catch at short leg.
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Carlos Brathwaite then counter-attacked to pull the innings around. Play was officially abandoned for the day at 4:35 p.m. local time with only 11.2 overs bowled.