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Australia won the opener emphatically in Hobart and the Smith-Voges stand all but took the match away from the tourists, who sent the hosts in to bat after winning the toss.
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Smith earlier raised his 13th Test century and walked off unbeaten on 134 on the declaration, his sixth Test ton for the year.
Morning showers provided a great deal more resistance than the West Indies as Joe Burns and Usman Khawaja cracked commanding centuries for Australia on Boxing Day.
The 36-year-old did enough to stay in the XI, now he’s showing exactly why selectors picked him in the first place.
Burns and Khawaja shared 258 runs until Burns was stumped on 128.
The Windies removed risky opener David Warner for 23 in the fifth over. “If I get an opportunity to get in and score runs, then I am trying to go as big as possible and stay hungry”.
The visitors weren’t quite as sloppy as they were in the first Test but Khawaja tellingly brought up his ton by scampering through for a single after a misfield. The last time Australia had four centurions in an innings was against England in Cardiff in 2009.
Also the number of Australians before Voges to reach this milestone within a year (365 days) of their test debut.
So far in the series, Australia have amassed 776 runs for the loss of just five wickets as the home side looked to build another formidable first innings total.
162- The Average per wicket with which Australian Batsmen have scored runs in this series- it is the highest average per wicket for any team, which has faced minimum 200 overs.
The hapless Caribbean tourists again struggled to make any impression in the rain-delayed Boxing Day showpiece after losing by an innings and 212 runs in the first Hobart Test. Pakistan, in the series against Sri Lanka in 2008/09, averaged 125 and is second in this list. Brathwaite popped a catch to Joe Burns at short leg for 17 before Chandrika was trapped in front without playing a shot to James Pattinson for 25.
Pattinson wanted exclusively three extra deliveries earlier than grabbing his second wicket when Marlon Samuels was trapped lbw for a duck.
Lyon was back among the wickets when he caught and bowled Jermaine Blackwood (28), who had previously survived a tight call from the third umpire after a lovely Peter Siddle ball, was seemingly caught very low by Burns, only for the third umpire to judge the ball had touched the ground.
Peter Siddle (2-19) capped a fantastic day for Australia with two wickets off successive deliveries removing both Denesh Ramdin (0) and Jason Holder (0).
