West Indies dismiss Australia for 180 as 16 wickets fall in Barbados Test

Seales and Joseph instrumentality 9 wickets earlier Australia signifier mini betterment by restricting West Indies to 57-4 astatine stumps.

In a show reminiscent of West Indies’ fearsome bowling attacks of old, Jayden Seales and Shamar Joseph tore done the Australia batting lineup, toppling them for a meagre 180 connected time 1 of the archetypal Test astatine the Kensington Oval successful Barbados.

Mitchell Starc, skipper Pat Cummins, and Josh Hazlewood saved Australia’s blushes, taking 4 wickets betwixt them to nonstop the West Indies successful astatine stumps astatine 57 for four, trailing the tourists by 123 runs to permission the lucifer delicately poised connected Wednesday.

With Seales claiming a magnificent five-wicket haul and Joseph unleashing thunderbolts that near Australia’s batsmen floundering, the visitors ne'er recovered from a catastrophic commencement that saw them reeling astatine 22 for 3 connected a lively pitch.

“This 1 was beauteous peculiar for me,” Seales said.

“I person played against [Australia] once, and was injured. To play against them and get 5 connected the archetypal time was beauteous special.

“With the caller ball, the program was to vessel fuller. We knew the batters would travel hard if we gave them width, and the program was to vessel afloat and arsenic overmuch astatine the stumps arsenic possible.

“A small slower than what the Australians would person expected, and that made them play a batch more.

“Shamar was peculiar contiguous … He has a emotion for Australia. He got done the apical bid and made it casual for america successful the mediate and astatine the end.”

Australia, already susceptible with Steve Smith sidelined by wounded and Marnus Labuschagne axed, watched successful dismay arsenic their re-jigged apical bid wilted nether relentless unit from the Caribbean quicks.

Joseph got the Bridgetown carnival started successful the 4th implicit erstwhile helium trapped teenage debutant Sam Konstas limb earlier wicket aft a review.

The 25-year-old past delivered a scorching transportation that all-rounder Cameron Green could lone borderline to Justin Greaves astatine 2nd slip.

Seales past joined the party, coaxing a heavy apical borderline from Josh Inglis that sent him trudging backmost to the pavilion for five, completing Australia’s fearfulness start.

Veteran Usman Khawaja and Travis Head concisely stemmed the tide with an 89-run partnership, but Joseph struck again astatine the cleanable moment, removing Khawaja for 47 – agonisingly abbreviated of his half-century – and extinguishing Australian hopes of a recovery.

The mediate bid offered small resistance, with Beau Webster (11) and Alex Carey (8) falling cheaply earlier Greaves claimed the prize scalp of Head for 59, caught behind.

Captain Pat Cummins (28) provided the lone lower-order absorption earlier Seales returned to expanse done the tail, completing his five-wicket masterclass and leaving Australia to contemplate the wreckage of their innings.

West Indies would person fancied their chances astatine that point, but Starc had different plans, snapping up the wickets of Kraigg Brathwaite and John Campbell successful an action-packed opening spell.

Cummins past had Keacy Carty caught down connected 20 earlier Hazlewood bowled nightwatchman Jomel Warrican retired for a duck, arsenic the Barbadian prima acceptable connected an exhilarating time of Test cricket dominated by pace.

Australia’s Beau Webster is bowled by West Indies’ Shamar Joseph during time 1 of the archetypal Test lucifer astatine Kensington Oval successful Bridgetown, Barbados [Ricardo Mazalan/AP]