by As so often in the test -Cricket saved drama for the dying over the day. With 90 minutes on the second day of the second test in Grenada at 60 to 60, the tactically minded spectators began to think about the load-winding partnership in West Indies. Anderson Phillip and Jayden Seales defended with a heart on the way to 65 balls and added 16 runs. After Australia reached 286 the day before, its State of West Indies took 33 runs from 49 runs. However, they decided to continue to beat instead of swinging for runs, they reduced the time that was approved for the route under an upper order under an upper order.
In the end there was another 30 minutes when Australia started the third inner sings. And in the end this was enough to explain both openers and further increase the tension, with only two other options for you to beat in front of the ash in a test. There was so much attention to Barbados on the young Sam Konstas and a briefly improved performance in the first innings here. He only exposed himself once before printing a short inn in Sydney when he provoked Jasprit Bumrah and brought Usman Khawajas Wicket Next Ball.
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This time, Konstas, which undoubtedly annoyed, once blocked, was blocked, left twice and then the fourth ball of the Innings wide from its stump. He hurled his bat without a posture and continued to hack him. His back to the changing room was also not laid by the naugaus as they come, the body language radiated the misfortune, and as soon as he turned around, coach Andrew McDonald left the balcony on the upper floor to go in and prepare for it. Two over later, Khawaja fell around the wicket again to go from four of this series to Inschwarz for the third time. Jayden Seales had both and Australia’s top order has more questions than the Riddler’s pants. The team value of four runs became a dozen of stumps, a total of 45.
An opener duck to end the day and book the duck of an opener to start. Kraigg Braithwaite is the rarest birds: a test specialist for West Indian islands. While his first-class record at Hohen 228 games and at the beginning of his career there was a decent number of runs from 63 games of 50 over cricket, he has never played a professional T20 match and is not hunting the chance. What he has done now is 100 tests. It seems miraculous that a team whose engagements are now occasionally are so many opportunities at the age of 32, although it helps if a player debuts at the age of 18.
His trademark was to prioritize the leader, with a secondary priority, and his record is accordingly modest: average 32 is the lowest specialist in the 82 members of the hundred club. Only two others under 40th place Brathwaite alongside the previous nine West Indian participants and this surname tower about his: Lloyd, Richards, Greenidge, Haynes, Lara, Chanderpaul, Hooper, Gayle, Walsh.
But West Indies Test Cricket is now another world and needs any help that it can get. During six years younger than Khawaja, Braithwaite is in a similar position: an experienced opener who was selected for stability, but the results of which are strong. His last flourishing started against Australia at the end of 2022 and supported 64 with 110 in the new stadium in Perth before a big hundred against Zimbabwe. In two and a half years since the Innings, he has achieved an average of 19 years in 18 tests with three fifties. The thing with rare birds is that they are always about to die out.
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In this context, Brathwaite played a miscarriage in the second time and crooked a simple catch back to Josh Hazlewood. Tenth players from West Indies for 100 tests, the tenth player overall a duck in his milestone game. Pat Cummins followed a diver who fell out of his own return for 6 from Kacy Carty, and the two quicks have poured away on the middle order. The best return for West Indian islands came from a white ball approach, with John Campbell 40, while Brandon King played in his 75 impressive shots. When Nathan Lyon King picked up from the glove, 169 was still thin for 6, but some late order Maded it up to 253.
As in Bridgetown, this is now a single Innings match, and it is due to Australia to set and defend a goal. However, Braithwaite will receive a second inning and needs to continue his career to test number 101. Konstas will play in Jamaica, but will meet the same demand there to take its balance over five. Khawaja has to find a way beyond his problems or honestly talk to himself about whether his Ashes efforts will help his team. And before all this future consideration, this test remains very lively.
