This is a strange way to start. In the last 146 Australian trial matches before taking a farm at Sabina Park in Jamaica on Saturday, spinner Nathan Lyon missed seven. Four of these were in 2012 and 2013, left for other arrangements of bowlers. Three after he fired his calf during 2023 Ash. And that’s it.
Surprisingly, Kingston became the eighth match that Lyon had missed in his 14-year trials, and the fifth when it fits, after a series where he left a few six but took nine wickets to 18. Instead Australia chose to include Scott Boland as the fourth fast bowler for a day-to-day-to-day-to-a-top surface.
Bowling is not the main concern, with Australia winning the throwing and chosen to bathe before a familiar pattern played. Stop me if you have heard this before the last weeks: low marks for both under-pressure openers, a slide toward the problem, and a rally from the lower middle order to a vaguely credible score of 225.
At the middle of the night session point, a decent crowd was watching a unique scene of a team a day a slogging for fast running in a day style, more interested in a short bowling to tilt their opponents under the lights.
That won them a wicket for 16 running against a West Indies order defeated by farm injuries. Two makeshift openers in Brandon King and Kevlon Anderson will have to do the job after Mikyle Louis goes to one knee and John Campbell hit a ball in a short foot, along with the same to the hospital for review.
Fast bowler Alzarri Joseph also went for scans for an unspecified niggle, but returned to the ground at the end of the care fields. The scheduled openers should take a bath on the day of two, along with the West Indies currently walking by 209.
Australia will bring back their bowlers to secure a lead even in these situations, but they continue to remember batting. Sam Konstas played the ball with more spinning after a wild early grenada, but you couldn’t say the same for his running, with some vigorous wander around the wicket. The 19-year-old fell to Cordon because he was repeated this series, and eventually came out for 17 from his 53rd ball until his signature in the angle of angle to his stumps, Justin Greaves who trapped him with LBW.
Khawaja ground out 92 balls, marking a border on her 23 by a clean shot of the shot, but also fell as she has often been in the last few years, washing the right arm line around the wicket, the keeper Shai is hoping to take a hand screamer from Shamar Joseph.
Cameron Green and Steve Smith combined a stance that seemed to be stepping on the second session, with a green growing in his role in the first collapse after making 26 and 52 in the second trial. She reached 46 here before Jayden Seales stooped to a beauty, anger and anger to knock on the stump. Smith’s 48 was unevenly -raised, throwing his hands into a set of delivery outside the stump, lacing a few but sliced the other and through the slip before eventually nicking one to the first.
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That was just after the break at night, and at that point the fast forward button was hit. Beau Webster was nicked behind the cheap, leaving Alex Carey out of all the guns blazing for 14 from his first six balls, along with an extremely angry walking chip drive over six. The Travis Head came out for 20 trying to match him, slicing his high drive, ending with a stunning diving catch from sub Fielder Anderson Phillip after the printing in the middle.
Carey nodded in the back while driving to the Greaves on 21. Pat Cummins smacked three sixes to make 24 off 17 before another’s attempt from the seals, which Mitchell StarC then bowed for nothing. Josh Hazlewood finished showing a helter-skiller by cutting a catch to a deep point. The fall is 7 for 68 to less than 15 overs.
That left Australia nine overs in the bowl, which at other times this series was sufficient for a bag of West Indies wickets. They had to settle for one, Anderson bowed the inswinger to give Starc his 396 wicket in his 100th trial.
The West Indies will still be vulnerable against Australian bowling when King and Roston Chase will continue in the second afternoon, even if their injured players return better for a night’s sleep, but if the speed of the approach does not work one hour, the tour team will not be able to -on their frontline spinner, running a drink in an orange vest.
