Day 3 Highlights 3rd Test Australia vs. West Indies | Windies lose all 10 wickets for 27! #Cricket

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Australia stamped their authority on Day 3 of the 3rd Test, reducing West Indies from a position of relative safety to utter despair in the space of an hour. The tourists resumed their first innings with wickets in hand, but any hopes of stabilising were extinguished almost immediately as Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc found menacing seam movement and bounce. Kraigg Brathwaite feathered an edge to slip off Hazlewood to start the rot, and the carnage never stopped. The new ball burst through the top order; Jermaine Blackwood, Roston Chase and Kyle Mayers all fell in the corridor of uncertainty, while Starc’s trademark yorker flattened Jason Holder’s off stump.

Pat Cummins joined the party with trademark precision, cleaning up the tail, and Nathan Lyon applied the finishing touch by luring Alzarri Joseph into a miscued slog. West Indies lost all ten wickets for a mere 27 runs, folding for 123 and gifting Australia an innings lead that effectively decided the contest. The collapse lasted just 12.3 overs and silenced any lingering debate about the state of the series.

With the match firmly in their grip, Australia opted for quick runs rather than an immediate follow-on. David Warner’s aggressive 44 off 37 balls and Marnus Labuschagne’s fluent 61 pushed the lead into the stratosphere before Pat Cummins declared at 182/3, setting the visitors an impossible fourth-innings target.

The evening session offered little respite for the Windies. Hazlewood struck in his opening over of the second innings, trapping Tagenarine Chanderpaul lbw, and Starc removed Brathwaite with a searing inswinger. At stumps West Indies staggered to 33/3, still hundreds adrift. The contrast between Australia’s relentless quality and the West Indian batting frailty defined the day, leaving the hosts on the brink of an emphatic series-clinching victory and etching into memory a collapse that will long be remembered: ten wickets lost for just 27 runs.

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