Australia vs West Indies Highlights 3rd Test Day 5 2012, 27 April, Roseau. Watch Cricket Highlights Australia vs West Indies 3rd Test 2012. West Indies Vs Australia 3rd Test Highlights 2012. Cricket highlights of Australia (Aus) vs West Indies (WI) 3rd Test Day 5 2012. Australia tour of West Indies 2012 Cricket Highlights.

In the end, the final day of the tour followed the same script as the rest of the series: West Indies fought hard and provided Australia with a few headaches, but their efforts came to nought. Instead, Michael Clarke’s second five-wicket haul in Tests helped the Australians wrap up a 75-run victory and they took the series 2-0, despite some powerful striking from the West Indies captain Darren Sammy.

It took Australia two hours on the fifth morning to take the five wickets that remained after the critical breakthrough in the last over of the fourth day, when Shivnarine Chanderpaul was lbw. With each four and six that Sammy produced the West Indian fans dreamed of a famous win, but too much had been left to the lower order and a steady stream of wickets meant Sammy and the No.11 Shane Shillingford came together with 125 runs still needed.

Clarke finished with 5 for 86 and took himself out of the attack after copping some punishment from Sammy, who was murderous through midwicket and long-on. Sammy struck four fours and three sixes and had excellent support from Shillingford, who hit six boundaries, but in the end the target was just too tall. Clarke could do no wrong with the ball and he carried that touch with him into the slip cordon, thrusting his left hand low to the ground to snap up a brilliant catch when Kemar Roach (2) edged Lyon. In the next over Clarke collected his fifth wicket for the first time in a Test innings since his 6 for 9 in Mumbai in 2004 when Ravi Rampaul skied a catch to long on.

The Australians can now head home, or in many cases to the IPL, and enjoy a six-month break from Test cricket having capped off a strong first year under the captaincy of Clarke. West Indies head to England with a similar squad – Baugh and Kraigg Brathwaite were dropped though – and must find a way to play five strong days in a Test instead of two or three. Had they managed that over the past few weeks, an already entertaining series could have become a thriller.

Part 1

Part 2

Australia vs West Indies Highlights 3rd Test Day 4 2012, 26 April, Roseau. Watch Cricket Highlights Australia vs West Indies 3rd Test 2012. West Indies Vs Australia 3rd Test Highlights 2012. Cricket highlights of Australia (Aus) vs West Indies (WI) 3rd Test Day 4 2012. Australia tour of West Indies 2012 Cricket Highlights.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Test cricket’s latest 10,000-run man, is providing incalculable value to a young West Indies team by the example he sets in training and at the batting crease, Darren Bravo has said. Bravo was at the crease with Chanderpaul when he passed the mark on day four of the third Test against Australia in Dominica, and their partnership briefly gave the hosts hope of chasing down a distant target of 370 to defeat the tourists.

Though both would be dismissed before the close, Chanderpaul lbw on a DRS referral by Australia’s captain Michael Clarke in the final over of the day, Bravo said the progress being made by the Caribbean side was due in large part to the fact that the team’s younger players have Chanderpaul’s famously relentless batting to measure their methods against.

Having made 45 to conclude a series in which he has made plenty of starts but never quite carried on, Bravo said he was determined to learn from his first meetings with Australia. As stumps approached on day four, Bravo had been undone by a quicker delivery from allrounder Shane Watson – the ball was onto him with more pace than expected and prompted an edge through to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade.

“I believe it was an effort ball from Shane that had a bit more pace than the previous delivery,” Bravo said. “I think, looking at the replays, it was too close to cut. I have to learn from those mistakes and go from strength to strength. I don’t want to focus too much on the negatives, I am always taking positives.

“I’m disappointed in my performances [in this series] but I think I tried my best. In certain situations I was able to get a partnership with another batsman going. It is a learning experience and it is very important for me to learn from my mistakes.”

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Australia vs West Indies Highlights 3rd Test Day 3 2012, 25 April, Roseau. Watch Cricket Highlights Australia vs West Indies 3rd Test 2012. West Indies Vs Australia 3rd Test Highlights 2012. Cricket highlights of Australia (Aus) vs West Indies (WI) 3rd Test Day 3 2012. Australia tour of West Indies 2012 Cricket Highlights.

West Indies will need to complete their highest successful chase since they rewrote the record books in Antigua nine years ago if they are to level the series against Australia. Ed Cowan and Ricky Ponting both scored half-centuries on the third day in Dominica as the Australians built a lead of 310 runs at stumps, and with four wickets still in hand there was no immediate end in sight for the Australian second innings.

Viewed in isolation, it wasn’t a bad day for West Indies: their final two pairs frustrated Australia for an hour and a half in the morning and their bowlers picked up wickets early in the Australian innings and then gained some momentum late in the day. But the hosts were left to rue their miserable second day, when Matthew Wade’s century gave Australia control of the match, and at stumps on day three Australia had moved on to 200 for 6 with Michael Hussey on 17 and Ryan Harris on 4.

The wickets meant West Indies finished the day on a positive, and they had started that way as well. The final two West Indies pairs survived for an hour and a half and Shivnarine Chanderpaul didn’t alter his batting style despite having to work with the tail-enders, striking only three boundaries in his 68 from 164 balls.

He was the last man out, lbw to a straight ball from Mitchell Starc, who finished with 2 for 29, and Australia had finally ended a 32-run partnership between Chanderpaul and Roach (9 not out). West Indies added 53 to their overnight total for the loss of their last two wickets as the Australians struggled to find a way to terminate the innings.

Ravi Rampaul fell after 21 runs had been added in the morning, when he advanced to Nathan Lyon and tried to clear midwicket but succeeded only in lobbing a catch to point off a leading edge. Lyon ended up with 4 for 69 and moved into position as Australia’s leading wicket taker of the series so far.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Australia vs West Indies Highlights 3rd Test Day 1 2012, 23 April, Roseau. Watch Cricket Highlights Australia vs West Indies 3rd Test 2012. West Indies Vs Australia 3rd Test Highlights 2012. Cricket highlights of Australia (Aus) vs West Indies (WI) 3rd Test Day 1 2012. Australia tour of West Indies 2012 Cricket Highlights.

Australia have retained the Frank Worrell Trophy but a drizzly draw is far from enough to satisfy Michael Clarke. He wants his first West Indies tour as captain to end in victory, and the Australians have that chance over the next five days in Dominica. The second-least populous nation that makes up the West Indies cricket team (after St Kitts and Nevis), Dominica is an unfamiliar venue for the Australia players, none of whom have played at Windsor Park before.

West Indies might have lost the chance to regain the trophy but they can take encouragement from the Test in Trinidad, where they looked like making a real go of their chase of 215 on the final day until the weather intervened. They also dominated the first three days of the series in Barbados, so while Australia will enter the match as favourites, a 1-1 series draw is far from out of the question.

Not that it’s that familiar to some of the West Indians either: the veteran Shivnarine Chanderpaul has played only one first-class game there. West Indies do have a Dominican player in their side, the spinner Shane Shillingford, and he should play a key role having been preferred to Devendra Bishoo, who has been released from the squad.

Darren Sammy has made contributions throughout the Test series – in fact, throughout Australia’s entire tour – but this would be the perfect time for him to play a match-winning role. In Barbados, he removed Australia’s openers and made a handy 41 himself in the first innings and in Trinidad he showed a willingness to promote himself up the order when the situation demanded it. If he can combine a fast-paced innings of substance with a few wickets, he will be one step closer to ending his first Frank Worrell Trophy series as captain on a high.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3