West Indies all out 223, trail Australia by 360
For this minor over rate offence, the West Indies players were docked 30 percent of their match fee while Holder had to pay double the amount.
Australia, who announced the return of Usman Khawaja to the squad from the Boxing Day test and the addition of Stephen O’Keefe for the third test in Sydney, have released six players for the opening stages of the BBL but Smith is not among them.
Josh Hazlewood (4-45) took the lead as the hosts took the last three wickets to wrap up the tourists’ first innings for 223 inside five overs on a chilly morning at Bellerive Oval.
And then there was the Australian batting.
The West Indies efforts were in sharp contrast to Australia’s run spree propelled by a record 449-run fourth-wicket stand by Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh.
And Burns might be the odd man out after again missing out in Australia’s innings and 212-run victory over the West Indies within three days.
They are essentially six down with injured paceman Shannon Gabriel (ankle) not able to bat.
Pattinson displayed his carefully constructed new action created to avoid further back complaints in the first Test against the West Indies in Hobart.
Such was the wicket frenzy either side of the follow-on, Bravo was dismissed twice in 37 minutes.
It helped give the Aussies a clear advantage, with the West Indies struggling to 6-207 in reply to Australia’s 4-583 (dec).
Jomel Warrican survived the hat-trick ball in Hazlewood’s next over but the innings lasted only until the end of the next when Bravo, on 108, tried to smash Siddle down the ground but instead slapped an away-swinger to Nathan Lyon at point.
‘If you speak to any West Indies player, you will hear them talking about this special affiliation to their country, ‘ he said. “We had a quiet beer last night and tapped each other on the shoulder and said ‘well done, mate'”. Voges’ double century also set the highest score in a Hobart Test, overtaking Ricky Ponting’s 209 against Pakistan in 2010.
Pattinson, 25, playing in his first Test since March past year after recovering from back and hamstring issues, said he studied what he was doing wrong and came back a changed bowler to skittle the Windies. “It was a magnificent performance by that pairing – the game was in the balance when they came in and for them to put those figures up was invaluable for us”.
Rival captain Smith said: “It’s a good win”.
The second Test begins in Melbourne on 26 December and that will be followed by the final Test in Sydney on 3 January.
Smith’s West Indies counterpart, Jason Holder, conceded that his team started too slowly.
“You try not to let teams play well against you, and that’s what we seem to do really especially at home”. “There is going to be a few games of Big Bash that the bowlers are going to miss out on but we’ll wait and see when we get to Melbourne”.