Hazlewood 5-for leads Australia to three-day win over West Indies in Barbados test
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) — Australia blew away the West Indies for 141 and won the first test by 159 runs at Kensington Oval on day three Friday.
The West Indies was set a stressful 301 target to win on a tricky pitch and folded in 33.4 overs.
The chief destroyer was seamer Josh Hazlewood with 5-43 from 12 overs.
The West Indies collapsed to 86-8 inside 27 overs but the Australians didn't mop up the last resistance until the day's last over in an extra 75 minutes of an extended late session.
Allrounder Justin Greaves, 38 not out, and No. 10 batter Shamar Joseph, a career-best 44 with four sixes, both went for broke in a team-best ninth-wicket stand of 55.
Australia started the day in some bother at 92-4 in its second innings, but half-centuries from Travis Head, Beau Webster and Alex Carey hoisted them to an impressive 310 all out and a 300-run lead.
West Indies start chase badly
West Indies' attempt at its eighth highest successful run chase and highest in eight years was in trouble from the outset.
Mitchell Starc claimed opening batter Kraigg Brathwaite in the first over, caught at backward square by a diving Sam Konstas.
Starc also should have bagged Keacy Carty on 1 but Cameron Green spilled the catch at gully. That was the 10th dropped catch in the match and Australia's third.
Hazlewood changed ends and had immediate success by dismissing John Campbell, scooping badly and gloving to wicketkeeper Carey, and Brandon King, caught above the 1.98-meter Green's head, in successive balls.
When captain Roston Chase gave Konstas another catch at short leg, West Indies was 49-4 in 13 overs.
Carty used his one life to reach 20 when he tried defending Hazlewood and lost his off stump.
Shai Hope, the leading West Indies run-scorer in the first innings, faced 21 balls for 2 until his off stump was hit by a low shooter from Pat Cummins.
Alzarri Joseph, yet to score, was then slow coming from the non-striker's end and run out by a throw from substitute fielder Marnus Labuschagne.
Jomel Warrican's edge behind gave Hazlewood his 13th test five-for and second in the Caribbean, 10 years after the first.
Greaves and Shamar Joseph frustrated Australia with lusty strokes but Nathan Lyon ended the joyride in his second over of the innings.
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