While you were sleeping: Drone defeats dog and Pat Cummins gets a new hat
Here's what you missed while you were sleeping.
CAPS LOCK
Pat Cummins' missing baggy green has been replaced. He has sourced a second new Albion cap to replace his fraying original. The Aussie skipper's replacement cap disappeared somewhere between the pre-series photo shoot and the toss of the first Test in Bridgetown.
DOG GONE
There was an uninvited interloper on the arena early in the second session. But this wasn't an Australia who had indulged too much in the local beverages. Rather it was a stray dog, who initially settled deep in the off-side, before moving around to the on-side. Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood sought to shoo the canine away, but it was the drone camera overhead that led the dog to leave the field, and eventually the stadium, no thanks to the security or ground staff.
WHAT A TAKE
Australia took two return catches to begin the day in Grenada. Josh Hazlewood removed Kraigg Brathwaite for a duck in the second over, but it was Cummins' diving one-handed effort to remove Keacy Carty that stole the show, with the skipper forcing Carty to edge onto his pad before snaffling the pop-up low to the ground.
CORDON HOUSE
Marnus Labuschagne will not be denied. The dumped Aussie batter had a good hitout in the nets before play on Friday and then re-emerged in the slip cordon as Australia's quicks had breathers after bowling during the first session. It was an otherwise new-look cordon for the tourists, with Sam Konstas filling in as Steve Smith was stationed at mid-off as he recuperates from his finger injury.
WITH OR WITHOUT YOU
Having advanced to 4-169 with Brandon King and Shai Hope looking settled, the Windies lost 2-0. Firstly it was Cummins, who as he so often does ended a key partnership by bowling Hope through the gate after it jagged back. The skipper then went off the field for some repairs, in which time King departed for 75, gloving one from Nathan Lyon down the leg-side to a decision reviewed successfully by acting skipper Steve Smith, on the urging of Cameron Green at mid-wicket.
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