Mitchell Starc rattled the stumps and shook off the rust in Guyana, combining with Australia’s spinners to roll West Indies for just 116 in Sunday’s ODI.
The hosts were reduced to 5-70 in the 17th over then slipped to 8-91, ruining their hopes of a decent total in the tri-series clash.
They capitulated in just 32.3 overs, recording the team’s lowest ever ODI total at home against Australia.
Starc and Nathan Lyon, called into the attack in the sixth over after being picked alongside fellow spinner Adam Zampa, demolished West Indies’ top order.
Lyon finished with figures of 3-39 to bolster his bid for a permanent gig in the canary yellow.
Zampa also grabbed three wickets and stifled the run-rate on a spin-friendly Georgetown pitch.
Starc wasn’t at his sublime best, as you would expect from any fast bowler who hasn’t played for six months because of injury.
But the left-armer’s mix of express pace and late swing remained as potent as it was prior to his bout of ankle surgery.
Starc, handed the new ball after Steve Smith won the toss, started the match with an eventful over.
It featured a full toss so high it was no-balled, an lbw appeal that Smith reviewed only for replays to show a clear inside edge, and the dismissal of Andre Fletcher.
Fletcher slashed a wide ball straight to Glenn Maxwell at point.
Starc returned after his three-over opening spell to remove opener Johnson Charles, who edged an in-swinging yorker onto the stumps.
First drop Darren Bravo, who struck three boundaries and looked the man most capable of posting a big score, fell to allrounder Mitch Marsh.
It could easily have been even worse for the hosts, who posted an upset win over South Africa in the series opener.
Charles, who top-scored with 22, was on 10 when Lyon had a confident lbw appeal turned down.
A review would have overturned the verdict but Smith wasted the side’s only referral in the opening over.
West Indies were unable to stroke a boundary between the 10th and 26th over.
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