Siddle keen to cement his place in Oz Test squad

So bad are the Windies’ batting woes, the online bookmaker has received more money on Holder at $13 than any of the tourists’ specialist batsmen.

“Obviously we’re missing (Starc) and with Johnson retiring, it’s going to be a big thing for us”, Warner said.

Thirty-seven wickets tumbled in three days as the pink ball dominated the bat, in stark contrast to the run-laden low-attended first two Tests in Brisbane and Perth.

The towering Holder also took 4-76 in the CA XI’s mammoth 444 first innings.

“I haven’t really taken too much notice [of the tour game]”.

“I think so. If we play to our true potential, and our batsmen settle and make a decent score, it will be a very, very interesting series”, he said.

“The young Aussie side played a bloody good game up in Queensland, did well”.

But the 31-year-old seamer said a chat with Test great Glenn McGrath has convinced him he still has a future despite Australian selectors’ new pace policy. “And Kemar Roach is a very good bowler, he swings them away, sort of angles it into the right-handers”.

The West Indies’ only saving grace cane in the T20 tournament which they drew 1-1 but suffered a heavy defeat when Sri Lanka ran up 215 for three batting first.

Their first order of business is to come to a position on the Caricom review panel’s report on its governance; WICB president Dave Cameron was slated to meet on the issue with the head of the Caricom sub-committee on cricket, Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell, on Friday. “No doubt they’ll come down here a lot more switched on and a lot more competitive side in the Test-match arena”.

Less than 20,000 over five days attended the last Test in Hobart against Sri Lanka in December 2012 in which just 6,221 turned up on the opening day for a farewell to retiring favourite son Ricky Ponting.

But the stage is set for the damaging left-hander to snap that run at Bellerive Oval against a lowly ranked Windies side reeling from a 10-wicket tour loss to a little known Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane.

“(It) is a real shame because I think everyone in Australia was hoping he’d play”, Scorchers coach Justin Langer told 6PR on Thursday.

He added: “It was nice getting a bit of a rest getting back (home) – it was nice finishing the Adelaide Test match early”.