Hazlewood bowled with nearly metronomic accuracy in the second innings, having at one point recorded figures of 4-2.
Australia thrashed the West Indies by 10 wickets at the Adelaide Oval on Friday thanks to an outstanding seam bowling session from Australian Josh Hazlewood. Hazlewood bowled with nearly metronomic accuracy in the second innings, having at one point recorded figures of 4-2. Australia beat the West Indies on Friday morning by 120 runs after taking a 95-run lead in the first innings. The Australian opener Usman Khawaja was forced to retire hurt with the scores tied after being hit on the jaw by a bouncer from Shamar Joseph, but they still easily reached the victory mark of 26 in less than seven overs.
When the West Indies revealed their touring team, which included former captain Jason Holder among its star players, it caused a great deal of unease in Australia.
There would need to be three debutants in Adelaide’s team because only eight members of the 15-man squad had experience playing Test cricket.
The top of the order has been effectively partnered by captain Kraigg Brathwaite and fellow opener Tagenarine Chanderpaul, while the other four batters have just three caps between them.
Only Kirk McKenzie provided significant resistance to the Australian attack, as both Brathwaite and Chanderpaul failed in this Test match, demonstrating their inexperience.
They will, however, draw some encouragement from McKenzie’s batting and, more importantly, from Shamar Joseph’s batting and bowling, considering this was only his sixth first-class game.
Joseph came in at number eleven and grabbed five wickets in the first innings. He also scored significant runs in both innings.
The West Indies were still 22 runs down when play resumed on Friday at 73-6, and their slim chances were mostly dependent on veteran wicketkeeper Joshua Da Silva, who remained undefeated throughout the night.
Da Silva, however, was caught on the deep fine leg boundary for the second time in this match after adding one run to his overnight total. His team was down 84-7.
The West Indies were only one run away from forcing Australia to bat again when Alzarri Joseph, who was playing brilliantly, gave wicketkeeper Alex Carey a small edge off Mitchell Starc and fell for sixteen.
Shamar Joseph, a newcomer to the crease, was man-pied for four runs after Hazlewood clean bowled Gudakesh Motie, adding no more to the total.
Shamar Joseph, who was fearless, formed a final-wicket partnership of 26 runs with seasoned player Kemar Roach. However, Joseph was dismissed by Carey after charging off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
Coach Andre Coley of the West Indies acknowledged that a significant portion of their spectacular second innings collapse, which resulted in a 19-4 loss, was caused by inexperience.
“The learning curve has been pretty steep for some of them,” said Coley.
However, it hasn’t been overly tough, if they were to take a step back and consider some of the suggestions. Testing has been done.
“I think the challenge has pretty much been the consistency of the bowlers, obviously a wealth of experience in that Australian bowling attack, so their ability to stay patient, and there were times our batters played quite well.”
