Australia collapsed to 225 all out in the first innings of their day-night Test against West Indies in Kingston.<\/b><\/p>\n
The tourists were in a decent position at 157-3 but lost their remaining seven wickets for just 68 runs.<\/p>\n
West Indies finished the day on 16-1 to trail by 209 runs, with Mitchell Starc bowling opener Kevlon Anderson for three on his 100th Test appearance.<\/p>\n
Steve Smith top-scored with 48 and Cameron Green added 46 for Australia, but their dismissals either side of the dinner break sparking the collapse.<\/p>\n
Shamar Joseph was the pick of the West Indies bowlers with 4-33, while Jayden Seales and Justin Greaves took three wickets each.<\/p>\n
“Every pitch has been tough. The more balls you spend in the middle you hope it gets better but it just hasn’t been the case,” said all-rounder Green.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bit of a grind first time with these balls, but a lot of learnings. Time in the middle is key – just trying to get used to their bowlers, their conditions.”<\/p>\n
West Indies faced nine overs at the end of the day, with Starc – just the second Australia pace bowler after Glenn McGrath to play 100 Tests – making the breakthrough as Anderson chopped an inside edge onto his stumps.<\/p>\n
Australia already have an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-Test series after dominant victories in Grenada and Bridgetown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia collapsed to 225 all out in the first innings of their day-night Test against West Indies in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-261731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114846294745481670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}