Australia v West Indies first Test day five LIVE updates: Results, scores, wickets, odds, how to watch
Impressive start by Nathan Lyon, after a couple of early shouts he’s got Mayers edging to Steve Smith at first slip.
Replays had shown moments earlier what appeared to be a bat pad catch to Labuschagne when the replays were in. Hot spot had a decent edge, umpire wanted nothing to do with it, but it’s all fish and chip wrapper now as Lyon gets his man.
That was Lyon’s 443rd Test wicket, moves him past Indian contemporary Ravichandran Ashwin - for now at least - onto eighth on the all-time list. Josh Hazlewood now into the attack in place of Starc.
West Indies: 4/208 Brathwaite 106* Holder 1*, 290 runs needed to win
The visitors also have injury concerns of their own, with confirmation Mayers – who has moved along with a couple of boundaries through the offside – won’t be able to bowl in Adelaide due to a shoulder injury.
Uncapped 27-year-old Marquino Mindley is enroute from the Caribbean and is due to touch down on Tuesday and could be in line for a Test debut pending scans on Kemar Roach.
The Windies spearhead tweaked his thigh yesterday and lasted one more delivery before coming from the field due to the injury.
Losing Roach, 34 would be a massive blow, the numbers below show just how strong he’s been since a recovering from an ankle injury that had his career on the rocks in 2016.
West Indies: 3/202 Brathwaite 101* Mayers 9*, 296 runs needed to win
Players are on the turf, another lovely day in the west with a very sparse crowd.
Pat Cummins taking the Aussies out as Mitchell Starc takes the ball for the 63rd over.
Kyle Mayers at the striker’s end on 0*, Brathwaite at the other on 101*. New ball 18 overs away and Starc at the body straight away with his first ball, Mayers bunting down into the onside before flashing at a wide one and getting it away - uppishly - through the vacant gully area for four.
Starc has the batsman playing at every delivery in that first over. Nathan Lyon takes up the attack from the other end.
West Indies: 3/197 Brathwaite 101* Mayers 5*, 301 runs needed to win
No prizes for guessing man-of-the-match honours in this one, short of a match-winning double hundred from Brathwaite, it’ll be Labuschagne with a bullet thanks to 308 runs for one dismissal throughout the match.
He’s just the third Australian and eighth player in Test history to register a double and a century in the same match, joining some seriously elite company.
Players to score a double century and century in the same Test
- Marnus Labuschagne (Australia): 204 and 104* v West Indies, Perth, 2022
- Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka): 319 and 105 v Bangladesh, Chittagong, 2014
- Brian Lara (West Indies): 221 and 130 v Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2001
- Graham Gooch (England): 333 and 123 v India, Lord’s, London, 1990
- Greg Chappell (Australia): 247* and 133 v New Zealand, Wellington, 1974
- Lawrence Rowe (West Indies): 214 and 100* v New Zealand, Kingston, 1972
- Sunil Gavaskar (India): 124 and 220 v West Indies, Port of Spain, 1971
- Doug Walters (Australia): 242 and 103 v West Indies, Sydney, 1969
Even discounting the traditional day five role of the spinner, and Nathan Lyon’s 2/54 yesterday, the veteran tweaker is Australia’s best bet today - he’s the owner of a very impressive record on this deck.
Lyon v Braithwaite holds the key, Lyon has dismissed him three times in Test matches but the Windies skipper has been willing to come down the track and dictate terms throughout two fine innings so far this match.
Australia has one eye on these last seven wickets and another on the upcoming day-night Test in Adelaide starting on Thursday.
Skipper Pat Cummins is expected to lead the Australian side out and captain with the quad injury he’s carrying.
David Warner on Fox Cricket talking along the lines that Australia are a “bowler down”, with the home side hoping Cummins won’t be needed given Cameron Green looms as a Test-quality fourth bowler for their attack.
“Pat said he’s pulled up ok, I don’t know if he’s going to bowl yet,” Warner said.
Cummins will be eligible to bowl seven minutes after the start of play, once the time spent off the field yesterday is married up with time on it this morning. But as we said, ideally the Aussies don’t use him.
Welcome one, welcome all to the fifth and final day of an intriguing old Test from Perth.
I’m Dan Walsh here in the Maroubra bureau as Australia chase the last seven wickets, and the Windies eye an unlikely 306 runs, or full day’s stonewalling for a draw.
Malcolm Conn and Dan Brettig are on the ground over in the west and there’s a question mark over a quad injury to Aussie skipper Pat Cummins – in a perfect world Australia won’t need him to bowl but Kraigg Brathwaite has already shown there’s fight in the visitors yet.
