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One of the two sixes he hit in one over off Australia paceman James Pattinson was a spectacular heave over the covers and deep into the crowd.
West Indies 7/248 after 86.2 overs.
“I used to hear about that in county cricket but never heard about it in a Test match, so I think we’ve got to see how much play we get tomorrow. the West Indies coach said”.
Brathwaite was dismissed cheaply by Lyon in both innings during the Boxing Day Test, but fared better on Sunday before falling to the spinner again.
“He’s a quality bowler”, said Lyon.
He brought up his second half-century of the series and eighth in Tests in the third over before lunch when he punched Mitchell Marsh to the ropes at point and then followed up with a couple to square leg. Looks like a rainwash will spare West Indies the blushes of a whitewash.
Play was officially abandoned at 4.35pm as the rain continued to cascade down on Sydney Cricket Ground, with the 14,266 optimistic souls who came through the gates in spite of the gloomy forecast being offered a full refund.
They went down by an innings and 212 runs in the Hobart opener before losing by 177 runs in the second Test in Melbourne last week.
He fell 15 runs shy off his fifth test century when Lyon got a little bit of extra bounce to a delivery which caught the opener’s glove and was snaffled up by Steve Smith at slip. Brathwaite retreated to his end and Samuels was stranded by Hazlewood’s throw to the striker’s end.
On 115 for three at the tea break, West Indies looked to be flourishing afterward when Jermaine Blackwood pulled Lyon and drove Pattinson for boundaries in moving to ten.
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.
But despite a chunk of play being lost, the Australian selectors would feel vindicated after they opted for two tweakers on a spin-friendly pitch. There was an element of revenge in it for Pattinson, who had been struck for a pair of sixes in his previous over by Brathwaite, who finished on 69 from 71 deliveries.
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A tally of 10 wickets taken over two Test matches offered not even a distant echo of the days when the likes of Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose struck fear in the hearts of batsmen.
