West Indies set a small target of just 26 runs. In the first innings itself we saw poor batting from the West Indies batsmen. Other than Kirk McKenzie, no other batsman could stay at the crease longer. McKenzie scored 50 runs. In the first innings, West Indies' innings stopped at just 188 runs. In the second innings too, as usual, we saw bad batting by the West Indies batsmen. The team collected only 120 runs.
Hazlewood bowled brilliantly in this match. He was able to take 4 wickets in the first innings and 5 wickets in the second innings. Hazlewood destroyed the West Indies top order. The match was likely to be a tight one, despite the West Indies being able to set a target of more than 150.
West Indian batsmen have always struggled in Australia and this time also it was no different. In the past Brian Lara, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan were the ones who found themselves in trouble and now it is the turn of Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Kraigg Brathwaite. Kirk McKenzie was the only West Indian batsmen to get to a half century. Everyone else failed. The raw pace of Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood were a bit too much. These guys mostly focus on T20 and test format and bowlers with real pace were new for them.