The Windies began day three on 207-6, with Darren Bravo going on to compete an excellent century.
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Pattinson said he had looked at footage of his action from the first innings and decided the path his bowling arm was travelling in his delivery stride was starting too far away from his body, which meant he was losing arm speed as well as wrist position.
The next match takes off in Melbourne and the 3rd one in Sydney.
Of all the harrowing days West Indies have endured on the Test grounds of the world over the past couple of decades – and heaven knows, they have been plentiful and persistent – none was as horrific as the two and a half it took to capitulate to Australia in the first Test in arctic Hobart.
West Indies were 5 for 30 and in serious danger of being dismissed for less than 100 in a Test innings for the first time in 11 years.
Brathwaite was the last man out, bowled by Hazlewood six runs short of his century.
It marked the fourth career five-wicket haul for Pattinson in his first test since March 2014.
With Mitchell Johnson now retired and Mitchell Starc seriously injured, the Aussie selectors will be delighted to have the Victorian back with all guns blazing.
While a revolving door may as well have been built into his team’s dressing room for his colleagues, the 23-year-old showed some much-needed resistance in scoring 94 runs from just 122 balls.
Lara scored 11,953 Test runs in 131 Tests for the West Indies between 1990 and 2006.
“It is probably his preferred position and where he has had the most success, but if you are in the team you will bat anywhere”.
Another reason behind this thinking is that it gives your bowlers more chance to rest between innings rather than having to bowl back-to-back innings. “Hopefully we can come back strong in the second test”. “It was nice to see James Pattinson back bowling the way he did and to get a five-for was an outstanding effort”.
A bonus for Smith was that his pacemen only bowled a combined 73.3 overs for the match.
He sought damage control by setting deep fields; late in the day, he turned to the batsmen Kraigg Brathwaite and Jermaine Blackwood for their versions of off-spin.
“Senior players get involved, the likes of Marlon Samuels …”
More than one player now unavailable through their commitments to global T20 franchises have told me they feel the West Indies they would officially represent is really the WICB.
With the defeat, West Indies are now trailing 0-1 in the three-match series and will play their next two matches in Melbourne and Sydney.
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Lehmann has played down Boxing Day Test concerns for Steve Smith despite the captain pulling out of the Big Bash League before Christmas due to knee and hip complaints.
