West Indies in trouble vs Australia after enforced follow on

West Indies in trouble vs Australia after enforced follow on

Published Dec. 11, 2015 8:58 p.m. ET

HOBART, Australia (AP) Fast bowler James Pattinson took four quick wickets to run through the West Indies top order Saturday and put Australia in sight of a big innings victory over the West Indies in the first test.

After a rain-enforced early lunch on the third day at Bellerive Oval, the West Indies were 35-5 in their second innings and 325 runs behind after Australian captain Steve Smith enforced the follow-on in the morning session.

The West Indies still trail and are effectively six wickets down with injured paceman Shannon Gabriel (left ankle) unable to bat.

Pattinson (4-19) took up where Josh Hazlewood left off in a West Indies first innings dominated by century-maker Darren Bravo (108).

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Pattinson haul included the second-innings wicket of Bravo for four, ensuring the West Indies batsman was dismissed twice in 37 minutes.

The West Indies resumed on 207-6 Saturday morning in their first innings before Hazlewood (4-45) cleaned up the tail.

Bravo brought up his seventh test century before the West Indies first innings ended on 223-9. Resuming on 94, he hit two boundaries off Peter Siddle in the first over Saturday to reach the century mark.

Australia declared its first innings on 583-4.

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