West Indies vs Australia, 1st Test

Day 2: 3rd Session

AUS 17/0 (6) CRR: 2.83

Australia lead by 7 runs

Shamar Joseph
3-1-6-0
Jayden Seales
3-1-7-0

6.4
Jayden Seales to Khawaja, FOUR, nicely played! Full ball swinging in on middle and leg, Khawaja stays well-balanced and flicks it through square leg. The fielder in the deep moves to his right but has no chance to stop it

7.1
Shamar Joseph to Sam Konstas, leg byes, FOUR, short of length ball slanting down leg, Sam Konstas tries to help it across but it deflects off his thigh pad and beats the dive of the keeper to his left. Shamar Joseph losing his radar a bit

AlJo strikes
27/1

8.4
Alzarri Joseph to Khawaja, out Lbw!! Khawaja has been trapped in front but he takes the review quite quickly. Is height a factor? Was a back of a length ball that seamed in nicely from outside off, Khawaja hopped to keep it out but missed to get hit on the back leg. UltraEdge shows a gap between bat and ball. Over to ball-tracking and hitting is umpire's call - it would have grazed the top of middle-stump. Intiailly, it looked like it can be a bit high but it didn't gain that extra lift off the surface on this occasion.

Khawaja lbw b Alzarri Joseph 15(22) [4s-1]\

AUS 27/1 (8.4) CRR: 3.12

Australia lead by 17 runs

Al does it his own way. LBW!

In reply to Narper

Narper I see you still driving.

Well done mate.

Big big wicket, looks like we will have pray for bowled and lbw decisions as catching is so questionable.

Appropriately Blewett called out Sammy. This mugging for the camera and demotivating his supervisees with
public remonstrations which is really mugging for the camera must stop.

In reply to Prako

We have to take all chances offered-

I dont just mean the tight ones but the simple ones we cannot keep messing up.

In reply to powen001

Nothing like Test Cricket. The pain is deeper!

Clataaaax
Shamar strikes.

34/2
Konstasgawn fi5

11.2
Shamar Joseph to Sam Konstas, out Bowled!! Chopped on! Another failure for Sam Konstas and he falls to Shamar Joseph on both occasions in this game. A skiddy back of a length ball seaming in from outside off, Sam Konstas is rushed for pace. He is caught on the crease as he tries to block but only manages to get an inside edge. The ball bounces behind him and then goes onto hit middle and off. Konstas was dropped twice off Shamar Joseph's first over but the latter has had the last laugh.

Sam Konstas b Shamar Joseph 5(3

AUS 34/2 (11.2) CRR: 3

12.3
Alzarri Joseph to Green, FOUR, well played! 139kph overpitched delivery,
12.3
Alzarri Joseph to Green, no ball, a sharp bouncer down leg, Green ducks under it. Alzarri Joseph has overstepped in a bid to crank it up

Dukes balls used in the West aren't they mad for our conditions?

This is a bad batch

Day 2: 3rd Session

AUS 47/2 (17) CRR: 2.76

Australia lead by 37 runs

Cameron Green 9(29)
Josh Inglis 8(15

In reply to Narper

The general line has moved about six inches outside off

Easy for batters, well, easier…

Nice one! Much better Seales!

18.1
Justin Greaves to Josh Inglis, 3 runs, full ball straying on the pads, Josh Inglis flicks it in the gap between mid-wicket and mid-on. Picks up three runs for doing so

18.6
Justin Greaves to Green, FOUR, easy pickings! A low full-toss on the pads, Green says thank you very much and flicks it with good timing through backward square leg to find the fence

LBW!

19.6
Jayden Seales to Green, no run, Green has been trapped in front. He has a discussion with Josh Inglis and then challenges the decision. Looked adjacent to the naked eye. Was a good length ball that seamed in sharply from a good length on off, Green tried to block it but ended up playing around it to get rapped on the pads. UltraEdge shows a gap between bat and ball. Over to ball-tracking - oh, it's going over the stumps. Green had taken a couple of steps down the track and that came to his rescue. Judicious use of the review from Green

TV replay says missing

Brilliant over by Seales. Deserved a wicket

21.4
Jayden Seales to Josh Inglis, out Bowled!! Massive error in judgement. Josh Inglis has done a King. That was a length delivery, 132.9 clicks, landed just outside off and jagged in big to hit the top of off. Jayden Seales is elated. Windies camp is happy as well. Josh Inglis was shocked by the sound of timber. He misread the line as well as the length. Poor judgement indeed. But he will have to take the long walk back. He turned back to see the self created mess. But it was too late by that time.

Josh Inglis b Jayden Seales 12(33)

AUS 57/3 (21.4) CRR: 2.63