Australia vs West Indies 2nd Test Day 1: Live Cricket Score And Updates

Australia vs West Indies, 2nd Test Day 1 Live Updates: Battling an outbreak of COVID-19 and forecast wild weather, Australia will aim to complete a clean sweep of the summer Test series when they face the West Indies in Brisbane on Thursday. After taming Pakistan 3-0 in December and early January, the world Test champions thumped the West Indies by 10 wickets in Adelaide last week. They are heavily favoured to again sweep past their under-strength opponents in the pink-ball Test at the Gabba, a format at which the Australians excel. However, Covid has hit their camp with allrounder Cameron Green and coach Andrew McDonald the latest to come down with it on Wednesday. (Live Scorecard)

Australia (Unchanged Playing XI) - Usman Khawaja, Steven Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey (WK), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (C), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.

West Indies (Playing XI) - Kraigg Brathwaite (C), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Kirk Mckenzie, Alick Athanaze, Kavem Hodge, Justin Greaves, Joshua Da Silva (WK), Kevin Sinclair (In place of Gudakesh Motie), Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Kemar Roach.

TOSS - The coin lands in favour of Kraigg Brathwaite and West Indies have elected to BAT first.

The visitors performed well with the ball in the 2nd innings. Shamar Joseph, on his debut clinched a five-wicket haul and even scored valuable runs off his bat. Kirk Mckenzie was also in good rhythm but he will need to take the innings deep. The other batters did not rise to the occasion and under performed. They will need to be at their best while facing Australia at the Gabba. They will need to bat longer and tire out the Aussie bowlers. This is expected to be a thrilling contest but the weather might