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Posted: 2022-12-01 01:22:42

Australia declare their first innings on 4-598 after tea on the second day of the first Test, with West Indies debutant Tagenarine Chanderpaul hitting out against an opening barrage at Perth Stadium.

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Australia vs West Indies in Perth

Batters paradise

By Simon Smale

Is it fair to say today was a day for batsmen everywhere?

- Mike

Seems that way Mike.

Tea in Rawalpindi now and England are 3-332.

In two sessions.

Madness.

Thanks for reading

By Simon Smale

Thanks for joining us today.

Day one brought us two wickets and 293 runs.

Today, 379 runs were scored for just two wickets.

It's a run-fest at the moment and the game is still quite evenly poised.

An Australian bowling barrage will ensue tomorrow you'd expect, and if that brings wickets then Australia could go a long way towards winning the game.

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If this pair continue to impress though, then who knows.

Thanks for being with us and we'll see you back here tomorrow.

Windies batted well: Josh Hazlewood

By Simon Smale

"They batted well, to their credit," Josh Hazlewood says on Fox Sports.

On Chanderpaul: "It was an interesting start, but once he got going he plays a few shots and seems pretty tough to bowl too."

Not much sympathy for the youngster, who he nailed in the privates with a nasty delivery.

"That's just part of the game," he laughs.

Harsh, but fair.

Stumps: West Indies 0-74 (Brathwaite 18, Chanderpaul 47)

By Simon Smale

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Stand and applaud Australia, that was a terrific day's cricket, ended by a brilliant opening stand of 74 between two batters who have been sorely tested against all the odds.

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I was so impressed with Chanderpaul, he got hit several times but on each occasion played it so well, dropping his hands, getting the bat out the way.

It was the sort of performance that so many opening batters had to play when faced with the famous West Indian quartet of the late 70s.

But this time it was a West Indian with a famous name, perhaps at the start of a famous innings of his own.

25th over - Starc to bowl the last of the day

By Simon Smale

Chanderpaul is on 46 - it would be real cool if he got to a half century in this over.

Two dots first up though as Starc targets the tender body of Chanderpaul with some real heat, 145kph the first ball. Chanderpaul is already bruised from some vicious treatment early in his innings.

Another bouncer, again Chanderpaul gets under it.

He needs to be sensible here and not try too hard to get a boundary.

A single down to fine leg gets him off strike.

BEATEN! What a ball, around the wicket, angling in to the West Indies captain and that's missed the stumps by an inch and the outside edge by even less than that. What a ball.

Final ball of the day.

Brathwaite defends.

24th over - Hazlewood continues

By Simon Smale

Nice shot, flaying the ball uppish through point for two.

EDGED! Past third slip and in front of gully for four. Soft hands though, I'm not sure it would have carried. In fact, it would have been well short. Well played really.

Beaten outside off.

CLOSE! Chanderpaul hooks over the man at bat pad, the ball bouncing just short of Nathan Lyon deep square leg. They run a single.

Brathwaite sees out the rest of the over.

Now that's a picture

By Simon Smale

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23rd over - Starc continues

By Simon Smale

Chanderpaul gets off strike straight away.

Brathwaite defends the first,

Starc sprays the ball wide across Brathwaite's bows, the skipper leaves those balls alone.

He has to defend a rising delivery aimed at his ribcage though, it falls very safely in front of Travis Head at bat pad.

Brathwaite leaves the last outside off well alone.

It goes without saying that these two need to be here at the close if the Windies are to have any hope of keeping themselves in the game.

50 overs gone in Pakistan, England 3-305

By Simon Smale

That's some serious batting from England to go at over six an over in Rawalpindi.

Reminder, it's a Test match, not an ODI.

Harry Brook (9) and Ollie Pope (34) are the men in at the moment.

22nd over - Hazlewood continues

By Simon Smale

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Chanderpaul swiped a hook at a short ball but the ball hits him off the bat and falls safely out to square leg.

Chanderpaul gets off strike with a leg bye now.

Two for the skipper Brathwaite to midwicket.

Outside off, Brathwaite leaves well alone, bat high up in the sky.

Time has not been kind

By Simon Smale

"Tough pitch to bat on here boys" - D. Warner, 11am yesterday

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