All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite in line for West Indies debut

Melbourne, Dec 25: All-rounder Carlos Brathwaite could make his long-awaited Test debut for the West Indies against Australia on Boxing Day. The 27-year-old, a right-arm pace bowler and powerful lower- order batsman, has been a part of the West Indies set-up on recent tours, but has failed to break into the final XI, despite impressive performances during tour matches, reports CMC.

didnt make a difference

It did : Ump called him WIDE , twice, on Joe Burns whinging !

70.4  CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, length ball outside off, left alone

70.5  CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, fuller, still quite wide, left alone

70.6  CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, length ball, fifth-stump line, Burns leaves again

68.4
CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, another length ball wide of off stump, and Burns slashes and misses

68.5 CR Brathwaite to Burns, 1 wide, and another length ball wide of off stump.

          Left alone, and Marais Erasmus exercises his arms again

68.5  CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, full, fourth-stump line, blocked to short extra cover


68.6  CR Brathwaite to Burns, no run, length ball, fifth-stump line, and Burns plays and misses again,

          this time having a wild heave across the line 

Erasmus is a lackeye of the Big 3  !

The debutant Carlos Brathwaite was at one point reduced to bowling well outside off stump to a 7-2 field :

a gambit the umpire Marais Erasmus opposed by calling a pair of disapproving wides.

Burns showed excellent judgment around off stump while finding the boundary 17 times  :

it doesn't matter who represent West Indies. The team is just not good enough