Australia brush West Indies aside to claim Frank Worrell Trophy

The eighth-ranked side were trounced in the first two Tests in Hobart and Melbourne with the Australians yet to be dismissed and conceding only ten wickets.

Bravo, the first-innings top-scorer with 81, was caught behind off Peter Siddle for 21, and Chandrikas 130-ball vigil ended when he was trapped leg before wicket to Pattinson for 37.

Team coach Darren Lehmann has foreshadowed O Keefe s likely recall after his sole four-wicket Test appearance against Pakistan in Dubai over a year ago.

With the Frank Worrell Trophy already secured, selectors will be tempted to rest the New South Welshman and play two fast bowlers, two spinners and all-rounder Mitch Marsh on the spin-friendly SCG. “We didn’t control the game the way we’d like”.

“(But) we won’t get to number one if we don’t win away from home. However Siddle is nursing an ankle complaint that restricted him on the fourth and final day of the Boxing Day Test, and was given leave to wait another day before he returned to the bowling crease.

“He has got an opportunity now to become the second spinner”.

“We fought really well in the last two days of the last Test match and it gives us some confidence going into this one”, Holder told reporters. “Looking further ahead to subcontinent conditions, we need to make sure we’ve got two spinners up and running”, Lehmann said.

Hazlewood went wicketless in the second Test, although he did have Darren Bravo caught at slip in the second innings, only to see him recalled after replays confirmed a no-ball.

O Keefe has taken 191 wickets for New South Wales at an average of less than 25 in the decade since his Shield debut and this season has captured 36 wickets in five Sheffield Shield matches.

His leadership has been a breath of fresh air, although can obviously be expected to face assignments more challenging than this West Indies series, starting with Tests against New Zealand in Christchurch and Wellington in February.

Ramdin and Holder spearheaded the resistance by adding 100 runs for the sixth wicket but tackling a 460 run deficit was always going to be a tall order. The third and final test begins Sunday in Sydney.

“13 Total (3 wickets declared; 32 overs)” 179 Fall of wickets: “1-7 (Burns), 2-46 (Warner), 3-123 (Khawaja) Bowling: “Taylor 3-0-25-0, Holder 11-1-49-2 (1nb), C. Brathwaite 6-1-30-1 (1w), Roach 4-0-22-0 (1w), Warrican 8-0-47-0 WEST INDIES 2nd innings Brathwaite c Smith b Lyon”.

With a fifth day still open, the tourists were 146 for four at tea at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

However Holder said his bowlers needed to show more.

“Our batting’s been very good all summer”.