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Test #1520 Australia vs West Indies at Perth. Report by Gavin Clothier.

After Australia won the toss and forced the Windies to bat on a typical hard Waca pitch the Australian quicks were destined to shine. The West Indian openers got off to a slow start in the fine, sunny conditions. With Ganga being dismissed off the bowling of McGrath for just 15 and Campbell shortly following for 27, both in slow time. This bought Hinds and the usual lone batting hand of Lara to the crease. This was before Macgill trapped the West Indian Champion Lara in front for just 14 bringing the skipper, Jimmy Adams to the crease who stuggled out until the end of the morning session. With the score sitting at 3/76 after the first session. Not long after lunch the wicket of Wavell Hinds also fell for a mere 21, another significant failure in the top order. Adams played a captains knock while he saw the wickets of team-mates Sarwan, Jacobs and tail enders McLean and Dillon. After Adam’s enduring innings of 78 off 168 balls brought the score to 9 for 241 the innings came to an end at 253 with Walsh not hanging around long and Black being the remaining, not out batsman. The pick of the bowling being Macgill and Mcgrath with figures of 4/70 and 4/57 respectively with Macgill’s spell on the hard Waca pitch being significant. The days play finishing at the end of the West Indian innings.

The Australian openers came out the next morning of a fine day and Hayden and Slater started positively with the opening partnership of 50 coming up in just the 10th over before not long after Dillon was brought into the attack the wicket of Hayden was claimed. Slater reaching his half century off just 51 balls. Langer came to the crease and he and Slater batted out until lunch with the 100 partnership coming shortly after. Before Slater reached his ton off 145 balls and Langer his half ton shortly after. The two continued to bat until Slater was dismissed for 113 just before the tea break with the score being brought to 205 for the loss of just 2 wickets. The aggressiveness of the Australian batsmen continued after the break with Mark Waugh and Langer scoring runs at a fast rate before the dismissal of Waugh for 48, just short of his half century bringing his brother to the crease and also a West Indian new ball. Langer scoring his century several overs later but being dismissed for 102 just 4 balls later. Ponting getting a Golden duck, the next ball putting Nixon Mclean on a hat-trick. Keeper Adam Gilchrist defending the next ball and he and Steve Waugh batted for a short while until the end of day’s play with the score sitting at 5/345. The morning of the 3rd day with Gilchrist and Waugh reaching their 50 partnership with Waugh reaching his individual half century with the 100 partnership coming in the 109th over and the loss of Steve Waugh’s wicket quickly after for 73. Gilchrist bringing up his 50 not long before lunch and also the downfall of Gillespie leaving Gillie quickly running out of partners. After lunch, Lee, Macgill and Mcgrath fell in quick succession but not before Gillie’s ton off 123 balls, with Gilchrist finishing at 114 and the Australian total a massive 531 runs. With Dillon getting 4/96 and Mclean’s 4/108 being the only decent figures coming from the West Indian bowlers.

With the West Indies’ openers being forced to take the crease just before the tea break and with the team 278 runs behind Australia’s first innings score. The West Indies’ chance of any sort of positive results were diminishing with their first 3 all falling for low scores with Campbell out for 10, Hinds 5 and Ganga 1 bringing the end of the session and the tea break with the score at 3/31 at the end of the session. With arguably the best batsman in the world and the Windies captain standing at the crease, the West Indies final hopes lay in these two men. But with Adams being dismissed for just 14 and Lara for 26 shortly afterward the West Indian’s heads would be hanging low. With Jacobs being dismissed for just 1 the West Indian score sat at a mediocre total of just 6/87. Sarwan and Mclean lasted out until the end of days play with their 50 run partnership coming early in the next day’s play. With Sarwan’s and McLean’s batting showing some promise, this was a last hope for the Windies. This was until they were dismissed for 48 and 45 respectively. The remainder of the West Indian batting line didnt stay long leaving the touring side’s final aggregate at 188 falling 90 runs short of Australia’s first innings total. Brett Lee did the damage with 4/59 and Macgill’s fantastic bowling continued with tidy figures of 3/27 off 18 overs.