Steve Smith: Steve Smith, Australia not underestimating Windies

“To be able to bat with Shaun for as long as I have and to put on over 300, it’s been excellent”.

It was also the highest partnership ever put together against West Indies, easily beating the 411 Englishmen Peter May and Colin Cowdrey combined for at Edgbaston in 1957.

“Not really, I have tried to enjoy it”, he said.

“I definitely feel comfortable at this level. He’s got a lot of aggression he’s not afraid to show, which I think is a great attribute”.

West Indies opted for a four-pronged pace attack but it was left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican who dismissed Warner and Smith to peg the Australians back after they had scored 70 runs in the first 10 overs.

Marsh has struggled for runs at number six, making just 69 at an average of 13.80 in the three-Test series against New Zealand.

Unfortunately for West Indies there were no chances created in the two sessions that followed and there weren’t too many appeals either.

Australia went to tea at 257/3, with Voges on 100 and Marsh on 42.

Voges, who resumed on 9 after lunch and reached his century before tea at Bellerive Oval, was unbeaten on 174 at the end of play.

Carlos Brathwaite impressed during the tour match in Brisbane and could be in line for a Test debut for West Indies.

They bowled just 50 overs in the first two sessions of play and needed to contact part-time spinners to get to 89 of the policy 90 overs under the threat of corrective action from the match referee Chris Broad.

Marsh said it was “very special” to score his first century in Australia and share in such a big partnership with Voges, whose run-a-ball century inspired him.

In the second over of the day, Kemar Roach (0-64) found David Warner’s (64) edge but Dinesh Ramdin was unable to catch it despite putting in a full length dive.

The breakthrough when it finally came was impressive, however, Gabriel summoning up a 147.2 kilometres per hour delivery which removed Burns’s middle stump. Warrican then had Smith caught by Jermaine Blackwood at first slip for 10.

The Windies attack went down a bowler when quick Shannon Gabriel left the field with what a team spokesman said was a stress reaction in his left ankle.

But he faces a massive challenge to provide his team with a competitive score against an Australian team eyeing off consecutive three-day Test victories.

Voges brought up his double-century from his 266th elivery with a single to deep point off Jason Holder, and in the next over Marsh moved to his 150 from his 227th ball with a single off Taylor, also to deep point.

Replacement batsman Marsh, 32, had been expected to step aside when the in-form Usman Khawaja (hamstring) returned for the Boxing Day Test.