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The Test between Australia and the West Indies at the MCG is progressing in much the same manner as the Test in Hobart did after Day 2, with Australia declaring on a high total and the West Indies struggling as much with bat in hand as they did with ball.
Steve Smith and Adam Voges were left at the crease last night after the wickets of Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja fell and they both managed to bat their way up to the triple figures on Sunday with Smith finding his way to 134 and Voges reaching 106 before the decision was made to declare.
After taking just three wickets on the opening day of the Test the West Indies completely failed to take any on the second day, and Australia finished their innings on 3/551.
For Smith it was his second century of the summer after recording a 138 against New Zealand in the drawn Test at the WACA. For Voges, it was a great way to back up his 269 not out against the West Indies in Hobart.
The West Indies then went into bat but they struggled to hold steady at the crease. Openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Rajendra Chandrika managed to put together a partnership of 35 runs before Brathwaite’s wicket was taken by Nathan Lyon, an achievement which would not sound at all positive except in comparison to the Hobart Test.
However what little progress they were able to make was shelved quickly after that. Chandrika fell not much later to an aggressive James Pattinson who then took Marlon Samuels for a three-ball duck shortly after.
Jermaine Blackwood and Darren Bravo were able to put together a few more runs and get the West Indies up to 82 before Blackwood became Lyon’s second victim of the day, and things got a lot worse for the visitors when Peter Siddle took the wickets of Denesh Ramdin and Jason Holder with back-to-back deliveries.
The one positive for the West Indies at stumps on the second day would be that Bravo, who scored a century for them in Hobart, is still at the crease, though in a highly defensive performance he has managed just 13 runs from 75 balls.
One would expect the tail end of the West Indies batting order will fall quickly tomorrow morning and Australia will almost certainly enforce a follow-on from there as they did in Hobart. There’s a strong chance that like that one, this Test will be over before the third day is out.
On 6/91 at the end of Day 2, only torrential rain could save the West Indies now.
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