West Indies 33 for 0 at tea

Australia embarrassed West Indies on day two of the second Test but Adam Voges knows the challenge is to replicate that form overseas.

3- Number of Batsman now to reach 1000 test runs in the year they made debut- Adam Voges is the third after Mark Taylor in 1989 and Alastair Cook in 2006.

Voges’ Test career could have ended in England earlier this year, where he managed a handful of starts but no scores of substance during the first three Tests.

“I’ll enjoy this moment”, Khawaja said.

“I am just out there playing Test cricket for Australia and trying to be as ruthless as I can”, Voges said.

Australia piled on 128 runs in the first session to push the score to 473 for three at lunch.

The situation was described as “totally” frustrating by West Indies coach Phil Simmons, who hopes the carnival atmosphere of the Boxing Day match and the widespread criticism of his players can combine to sting Jason Holder’s side into action.

After questions over who would open with David Warner ahead of the second Test, Burns was again given the nod and he proved the selectors right with a 230-ball knock that included 17 boundaries.

Burns and Khawaja shared a 258-run partnership; the highest 2nd wicket stand at the MCG for 46 years. It was the first time that four Australian batsmen had scored tons in a single Test innings in Australia.

West Indies’ bowling has been woefully ineffectual – they’ve snared six wickets and conceded 1134 runs in the series in two innings.

It was not the greatest batting spectacle, but the runs flowed steadily on a highly satisfactory day for Australia.

On the tour of Sri Lanka in October, he struck 54 and followed up with a blistering 113 in the two tour matches.

The Australians, who overpowered the Windies by an innings and 212 runs in the first Hobart Test, wasted no time slicing through the tourists’ batting.

Kraigg Brathwaite and Rajendra Chandrika put on a steady 35 for the opening wicket, but Nathan Lyon and James Pattinson had the openers dismissed in quick succession.

Pattinson needed only three more deliveries before grabbing his second wicket when Marlon Samuels was trapped lbw for a duck.

Blackwood looked to be out while on 18 when Burns took a diving catch off Siddle, but after a long deliberation by the on-field and TV umpire, it was decided the ball did not carry.

Jamaican Blackwood then skipped down the wicket at Lyon to hoist him over the fence for six but was caught and bowled by the spinner four balls later after attempting the same gambit.

Carlos Brathwaite saw off the Siddle hat-trick attempt with a three down the ground.