Brathwaite, Holder, Brooks hit fifties on opening day

Captain Kraigg Brathwaite tasted type on the tour of Australia, certainly one of three gamers with half-centuries on day certainly one of West Indies’ opening tour match in opposition to the Mixed NSW/ACT XI Thursday.

The suitable-hander top-scored with 75 whereas Shamarh Brooks added 56 and all-rounder Jason Holder, an unbeaten 50 because the vacationers gathered 297 for 5 of their first innings on the shut at Phillip Oval. Take a look at vice-captain Jermaine Blackwood weighed in with a affected person unbeaten 42, capping off a powerful efficiency by West Indies within the build-up to the primary Take a look at in Perth beginning in a fortnight.

West Indies got a constructive begin after selecting to bat first, Brathwaite dealing with 114 deliveries and counting 10 fours and Brooks – in an unfamiliar opening position – punching 5 fours in a 116-ball knock as they posted 133 for the primary wicket.

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They fell close to one another with 16 runs added within the area of 14 deliveries, and when Raymon Reifer (21), Nkrumah Bonner (15) and Kyle Mayers (17) wasted begins, West Indies discovered themselves stumbling at 205 for 5.

Nevertheless, Holder and Blackwood then mixed to rescue the innings from additional decline, placing on 92 in an unbroken sixth wicket stand.

Holder, the Take a look at captain on the Caribbean facet’s final tour Down Underneath seven years in the past, counter-attacked with ten fours in a 79-ball knock whereas Blackwood offered assist, dealing with 141 deliveries, and hitting 4 fours.

Left-arm spinner Riley Ayre, who accounted for each openers, was one of the best bowler with three for 70.

-CMC