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Australia,
West Indies 2nd Test
Dwayne Bravo makes Aussies wait
for win
HOBART—Australia will need only 78 to win the second Test in Hobart on
Monday despite Dwayne Bravo’s century for West Indies.
The tourists began day four on 82-4 and an innings defeat was on the
cards when Shane Warne removed Brian Lara (45) and Marlon Samuels to
leave them on 140-6.
But Dwayne Bravo (113) and Denesh Ramdin (71) made their highest Test
scores in a partnership worth 182 runs.
Warne (4-112) and Stuart MacGill then polished off the innings for 334
to set up a winning 2-0 lead in the series.
After their hammering in Brisbane, the Windies will have been encouraged
by the fight shown by all-rounder Bravo and wicket-keeper Ramdin.
Their seventh-wicket stand was the second highest for the Windies after
the world record 347 put on by Dennis Atkinson and Clairmont Depeiza
against Australia in Bridgetown in 1954-55.
The tourists needed something special after Lara was given caught behind
off Warne, although replays suggested he was unfortunate.
Samuels, who required a runner after injuring his knee earlier in the
match, was dropped by Warne offf MacGill when on 18, and was grateful
when a bat-pad appeal was turned down.
But his luck ran out on 29 as Brad Hodge grabbed a catch at short-leg
off Warne.
Bravo also had an escape on 46 when he was dropped by a diving Hodge at
square-leg off Brett Lee and made the most of it to score his score a
second Test hundred in as many games.
He made 107 against South Africa in Antigua in May but was omitted from
the team for the Gabba defeat.
The 22-year-old Trinidadian reached his century off 153 balls when he
smacked a full-toss from MacGill to the boundary.
Ramdin, playing in just his fourth Test, bettered his previous top score
of 56 with a controlled display, hitting six boundaries off 190 balls
before nicking a catch off MacGill to Warne at slip.
After that, the end was not long in coming as Daren Powell was given out
lbw for a duck to a MacGill wrong’un.
Bravo was bowled by Warne attempting to come down the track and Corey
Collymore was caught behind off Warne in the last over of the
day.—Agencies |