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Welcome to news.com.au’s unrecorded sum of the 2nd Test betwixt Australia and the West Indies successful Brisbane.
The 5th and last Test of the summertime is upon us, with the Gabba to big a day-night pinkish shot Test.
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Australia won the archetypal Test by 10 wickets and are favoured to wrapper up a 2-0 triumph successful style.
But they haven’t had an perfect preparation, with Usman Khawaja, Travis Head and Cameron Green battling assorted ailments.
Play is owed to statesman astatine 3pm AEDT. Follow beneath for unrecorded updates.
2.58pm - Green connected his lonesome during anthem
Cameron Green volition play contempt contracting Covid successful the days starring up to the Test.
The all-rounder stood good isolated from his teammates during the nationalist anthem and volition request to support his region from them during play.
There was speech Green mightiness tract successful the outfield but helium took his accustomed spot successful the tract astatine gully.
2.30pm - Windies triumph toss, bat first
The West Indies won the flip and skipper Kraigg Brathwaite has chosen to bat archetypal astatine the Gabba.
Australia person named an unchanged line-up, portion spinner Kevin Sinclair volition marque his Test debut for the West Indies, replacing Gudakesh Motie.
Australia XI: Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne, Cameron Green, Travis Head, Mitch Marsh, Alex Carey (wk), Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins (c), Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood
West Indies XI: Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze, Kavem Hodge, Justin Greaves, Joshua Da Silva (wk), Kevin Sinclair, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Joseph, Kemar Roach
1.45pm - Left tract mentation for sick Aussies
Travis Head has recovered from Covid, present Cameron Green has picked up the microorganism but he’s inactive expected to play.
Green fields astatine gully and took immoderate blinders successful his instrumentality to the broadside successful the archetypal Test, but the gully’s proximity to the slips cordon could marque things interesting.
Cricket writer Bharat Sundaresan said Green volition inactive person to isolate from his teammates and mightiness person to determination to the outfield.
Sundaresan wrote connected X: “With Cameron Green present acceptable to play aft having tested affirmative for Covid, you wonderment if he’ll beryllium allowed to basal astatine gully based connected the protocols & what if helium throws himself towards the remainder of the cordon for a catch?
“Maybe 3rd gaffe mightiness person to dive the different way.”
1.30pm - Aussies unchanged contempt Covid
After cruising to triumph successful the opening Test, the Aussies person been deed hard by Covid with a 2nd subordinate going down to the virus.
Following the Test successful Adelaide, Travis Head tested affirmative to the microorganism earlier all-rounder Cameron Green returned a affirmative test.
Head did not enactment successful grooming connected Tuesday, but is expected to enactment up for the Aussies connected Thursday.
Green did instrumentality portion successful the grooming league earlier returning a affirmative test. Provided his symptoms are not excessively bad, he’s besides expected to play.
The microorganism latched onto a 3rd subordinate of the squad with manager Andrew McDonald returning a affirmative trial connected Wednesday.
New protocols allowed players to vie adjacent with a affirmative test, they indispensable support abstracted from their ain teammates.
Usman Khawaja was cleared to play aft scans showed helium avoided a breached jaw and helium wasn’t showing concussion symptoms aft a nasty stroke successful the archetypal Test.
1.20pm - Weather looking fine, for now
Brisbane is expected to spot astir 10-30mm of rainfall implicit the coming days, but the upwind should clasp up for the archetypal mates of days of the Test.
It’s forecast to beryllium 32 degrees and sunny successful Brisbane connected Day 1.
The transportation isn’t arsenic overmuch arsenic a greenish seamer arsenic erstwhile years but should inactive connection plentifulness for the bowlers.
“It looks similar a accepted Gabba pitch,” Mark Waugh said connected Fox Cricket.
Squads
Australia: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc
West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite (c), Alzarri Joseph (vc), Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Kirk McKenzie, Alick Athanaze, Kavem Hodge, Justin Greaves, Joshua Da Silva, Akeem Jordan, Gudakesh Motie, Kemar Roach, Kevin Sinclair, Tevin Imlach, Shamar Joseph, Zachary McCaskie
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