Windies hit back after David Warner fires on day one in Hobart

The West Indies head into this Test after being pummelled by a Cricket Australia XI with limited first-class experience.

It was also the biggest Test stand by Australians at home, bettering the 405-run fifth wicket partnership by Sid Barnes and Don Bradman against England in Sydney in 1946.

Catch the live cricket score and ball by ball commentary of Australia vs West Indies 1st Test 2015, Day 1 at Bellerive Oval, Hobart on Thursday. The management could hand a Test debut to Carlos Brathwaite, who impressed in the tour game, and play a four-prong pace attack with captain Jason Holder in a more supporting role.

“Australia is strong, but when we go to places like Sri Lanka, India and the West Indies that’s when you start to see those numbers drop off”, he added.

Despite their critics, the Windies camp are talking up their chances of upsetting the odds, although it’s largely fallen on deaf ears.

Australia’s Steve Smith walks off the field after being dismissed West Indies’ Jomel Warrica …

They still trail Australia by 376 runs.

“We’re here to do a job and we’re going to make a good job of it”, he said.

“Being here alone should be more than enough motivation for the players, but having heard all those comments should be ideal motivation for them”.

“We’re going to do well, we’re going to do much better than you think”.

Bravo sparked a fightback in an unbroken 91-run seventh-wicket stand with tailender Kemar Roach (31no).

“We have to come out and execute our skills as well as we can”.

“We’re obviously good mates as well as team-mates so to spend a lot of time out there together was tremendous”. Pattinson, who returns for his first test since March 2014, edged out Nathan Coulter-Nile, who will be 12th man.

Despite Pattinson’s lack of Test action, Smith believed the firebrand would do some damage alongside young quick Josh Hazlewood against the lowly Windies.

“I think he is pretty similar in the way Joshy Hazlewood bowls – hopefully those two can lead our attack really well”.

James Pattinson, who replaces the injured Mitchell Starc, is the only change to the Australian team that defeated New Zealand in Adelaide last month.

Darren Bravo has fought hard to be 43 not out and played a series of spectacular drives that were reminiscent of the calypso cricket that was a trademark of the West Indies’ hey-days.

The hosts are overwhelming favourites to win the three-match series and but for a slight wobble when they lost Steve Smith (10) and David Warner (64) before lunch, they simply dominated the tourists at Bellerive Oval.

Warrican, then had Smith caught by Jermaine Blackwood at first slip.