Hazlewood Leads Australia To Huge Win Over West Indies

Australian Josh Hazlewood produced an impressed spell of seam bowling as Australia crushed the West Indies by 10 wickets within the first Test on the Adelaide Oval on Friday. Bowling with virtually metronomic precision, Hazlewood ended with 5-35 within the second innings after at one stage having figures of 4-2. Leading by 95 runs within the first innings, Australia dismissed the West Indies Friday morning for 120. They then cruised to the successful goal of 26 in underneath seven overs, though there was some late drama when, with the scores degree, Australian opener Usman Khawaja was pressured to retire harm after being struck on the jaw by a Shamar Joseph bouncer.

There had been loads of disquiet in Australia when the West Indies introduced a touring squad lacking various high gamers together with former captain Jason Holder.

Only eight of the 15-man squad had performed Test cricket earlier than, that means there must be three debutants within the crew for Adelaide.

While captain Kraigg Brathwaite and fellow opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul have shaped an efficient partnership on the high of the order, the subsequent 4 batsmen had solely three caps between them.

And with each Brathwaite and Chanderpaul failing on this Test match, that inexperience confirmed, with solely Kirk McKenzie providing a lot resistance to the Australian assault.

However, they may take some positives out of the match from McKenzie’s batting and particularly the batting and bowling of Shamar Joseph, who was enjoying solely his sixth first-class recreation.

Joseph took 5 wickets within the first innings and scored worthwhile runs in each innings coming in at No.11.

After resuming Friday on 73-6, nonetheless 22 runs behind, a lot of the West Indies’ faint hopes trusted skilled wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva, who was not out 17 in a single day.

But after including one run to his in a single day whole Da Silva was caught on the deep high quality leg boundary for the second time this match after not with the ability to management the hook shot, leaving his aspect 84-7.

Alzarri Joseph performed properly however acquired a faint edge to wicketkeeper Alex Carey off Mitchell Starc to fall for 16, with West Indies 94-8, nonetheless one run from making Australia bat once more.

Hazlewood then clear bowled Gudakesh Motie with none addition to the rating, bringing newcomer Shamar Joseph to the crease, who promptly performed an exquisite cowl drive for 4.

The free-spirited Shamar Joseph confirmed no concern and he and veteran Kemar Roach added 26 for the ultimate wicket earlier than Joseph charged off-spinner Nathan Lyon and was stumped by Carey.

West Indies coach Andre Coley conceded inexperience had performed a big half within the dramatic second innings collapse that noticed them droop to 19-4.

“The learning curve has been pretty steep for some of them,” Coley mentioned.

“But if they were to sit back and some of the feedback has been, it hasn’t been tremendously difficult. It has been testing.

“I believe the problem has just about been the consistency of the bowlers, clearly a wealth of expertise in that Australian bowling assault, so their means to remain affected person, and there have been occasions our batters performed fairly properly.”

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