Starc and Cummins maintain Australia control over West Indies in first Test

Australia’s fast bowlers eventually made headway against a stubborn West Indies batting effort on the third day of the first Test at Perth Stadium, prising out the visitors for 283 across 98.2 overs on a mild and sunny day. After choosing to bat again, Australia’s first-innings lead of 315 was extended to 344 in 11 overs before stumps for the loss of Usman Khawaja.

For the longest time, it was hard to know what to make of the Perth drop-in surface. The first such pitch for the India Test of 2018 enabled an electric contest with its pace. The following year against New Zealand it was comparatively anodyne. After the first two and a half days of this current Test had yielded five wickets from both teams combined, scorecard watchers would have assumed this pitch was a highway.

Mitchell Starc soon followed with his own version of that delivery, beating the left-handed Kyle Mayers on the inside edge for one. Both bowlers maintained their quality, and their short bowling began to grow venomous. But now it was Jason Holder helping Blackwood, putting on 53 together including a mighty six off Nathan Lyon before the spinner had Holder caught at leg slip for 27.

Shamarh Brooks was allowed to bat as the concussion substitute for Bonner, taking the team past tea with Blackwood, but Starc found swing with the second new ball, using it to blast off Blackwood’s front pad – out lbw – for a stubborn 36 from 108 balls, then to smash up Joshua da Silva’s stumps for a third-ball duck.

The massive lead would not tempt Australia to enforce the follow-on, not with the continued quality of the pitch for batting and the lengthy shift they had experienced in the field. David Warner threw the bat immediately, Khawaja fenced at Kemar Roach to nick behind for six, and the Australians finished the day on 29 for one.

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