WI dominate Day 1, Shamar Joseph rattles Aus at Sabina Park

The West Indies dominated Australia connected time 1 of the day-night 3rd trial astatine Sabina Park successful Kingston, Jamaica connected Saturday. The hosts' gait attack, led by Shamar Joseph's 4 wickets, bowled retired Australia for 225 earlier finishing astatine 16-1 astatine stumps aft surviving a tense last hr against Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.Shamar Joseph took 4-33, portion Justin Greaves and Jayden Seales claimed 3 wickets each arsenic the West Indies pacers capitalized connected favorable seam and transportation conditions nether lights.

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Sam Konstas, the 19-year-old Australian, continued his hard circuit arsenic helium fell lbw to Greaves for 17 disconnected 53 balls successful the opening league aft Australia won the flip and chose to bat.Usman Khawaja struggled for 23 runs from 92 balls earlier being caught spectacularly by wicketkeeper Shai Hope disconnected Shamar Joseph's bowling.Cameron Green and Steven Smith provided immoderate absorption with a 61-run partnership, scoring 46 and 48 respectively, but some fell abbreviated of their half-centuries.Australia's mediate bid collapsed arsenic Travis Head (20), Webster (1), and Alex Carey (21) were dismissed cheaply erstwhile the lights came connected and the shot started moving significantly.Seales returned to disregard Cummins for 24, who was caught successful the heavy attempting his 3rd six of the over.

Starc was dismissed for a duck successful his 100th trial match.Shamar Joseph completed his four-wicket haul by removing Josh Hazlewood, arsenic Australia mislaid their last 7 wickets for conscionable 68 runs."Every transportation has been tough," Green said aft play. "It was a existent grind. Usman batted good and ne'er looked in. Steve Smith looked similar helium batted connected a antithetic transportation again. We wanted to springiness them a tricky 45 minutes astatine the extremity and I thought they batted beautifully."

The West Indies faced a challenging play nether lights with King and Anderson opening, arsenic Mikyle Louis and John Campbell were unavailable aft being injured portion fielding.Starc, playing his 100th trial match, claimed his 396th trial wicket by bowling Anderson for 3, leaving him conscionable 4 wickets abbreviated of 400 vocation wickets.Captain Chase and King survived respective adjacent calls to usher the hosts to stumps astatine 16-1, maintaining their vantage aft time one.Australia made important changes to their lineup, dropping spinner Nathan Lyon for the archetypal clip successful 12 years and opting for an all-pace onslaught with Scott Boland joining Cummins, Starc, and Hazlewood.The West Indies recalled left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican successful spot of accelerated bowler Anderson Phillip, breaking up their all-pace onslaught from the erstwhile trial successful Grenada.Opening batsman Kraigg Brathwaite was dropped aft his 100th trial pursuing mediocre performances successful the series, with scores of 4, 4, 0, and 7. Louis replaced him portion Anderson made his debut astatine fig three, taking Keacy Carty's spot.Mitchell Starc became the 16th Australian to scope the milestone of 100 trial matches.Australia leads the bid 2-0 aft winning successful Barbados by 159 runs and successful Grenada by 133 runs, having already secured the Frank Worrell Trophy.