Australia beat the West Indies by an innings and 212 runs inside three days in the first Test in Hobart.
After Adam Voges’ unbeaten 269 and Shaun Marsh’s 182 led them to 583 for four declared in the first innings, Australia bowled their visitors out for 223 and 148 for a comprehensive win.
Josh Hazlewood took seven wickets in the match and James Pattinson five for 27 in the second innings, with impressive individual efforts by the tourists’ Darren Bravo and Kraigg Brathwaite in vain.
– ICC World T20: Kohli plays down India favourites tag
– INSIDE STORY: Sharjah Stadium brimming with history
– FOLLOW: LIVE cricket scores from around the world
They resumed on 207 for six in their first innings, with Bravo needing six more runs for his century – and he got there in the first over after striking Peter Siddle for his 18th and 19th fours.
But it very quickly went awry for his team-mates as Hazlewood had Kemar Roach caught behind for a hugely creditable 31, ending a seventh-wicket stand of 99, and then bowled Jerome Taylor first ball via an inside edge.
Jomel Warrican survived the hat-trick ball in Hazlewood’s next over but the innings lasted only until the end of the next when Bravo, on 108, tried to smash Siddle down the ground but instead slapped an away-swinger to Nathan Lyon at point.
Scheduled number 11 Shannon Gabriel did not bat due to injury.
Australia enforced the follow-on and took only nine balls to turn the screw further, Rajendra Chandrika edging Pattinson low to Steve Smith at second slip without scoring.
Brathwaite hit two fours in Pattinson’s next over but, having been struck to the ropes by Bravo in his third, the paceman bounced back to induce an inside edge onto the stumps.
Congrats to Man of the Match, @acvoges! #AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/cNj0WMOhI2
— cricket.com.au (@CricketAus) December 12, 2015
And his next over brought more drama as the fifth ball lifted at Marlon Samuels and looped off the shoulder of the bat to David Warner at gully, and the sixth kept low to bowl new man Jermaine Blackwood and leave the Windies 24 for four from eight overs.
For the second time in the day, an Australian bowler began a new over on a hat-trick – but Brathwaite pushed Pattinson calmly into the off side for a single.
The opener then survived a very tight lbw review against Siddle but Mitchell Marsh struck with his first ball, Denesh Ramdin driving loosely and edging to Warner.
Brathwaite and Jason Holder put on 30, doubling their team’s total, before the captain was caught behind down the leg side for 17 to give Pattinson his fifth wicket.
That left Brathwaite to bat with the tail and he stepped up his scoring rate, hitting Lyon for four and six before moving to his half-century with another four off the spinner.
He and Roach put on 31 before Hazlewood removed the latter for three, caught behind off his glove.
#AUSvWI: West Indies captain Jason Holder spoke to members of the media after today’s play at Blundstone Arena. https://t.co/4Xx9JnrsIP
— westindies (@westindies) December 12, 2015
Taylor also offered some resistance with 12 before being well caught by Pattinson at mid-off from Hazlewood’s bowling.
Warrican hit his second ball for four and Brathwaite took four successive boundaries off Mitchell Marsh to race through the eighties.
He lifted Hazlewood over gully for four more but was bowled next ball for 94 by a superb off-cutter, missing out on a deserved hundred.
With Gabriel again absent, the game was over in less than eight sessions and Holder admitted to Sky Sports 2: “There’s definitely a lot of soul-searching to be done.
“As bowlers we were very indisciplined due to not being patient enough and as batsmen, the only way you can make runs is to spend some time in the middle.”
Rival captain Smith said: “It’s a good win. The partnership between Voges and Shaun Marsh set us up well and the bowlers did a terrific job.”
