MELBOURNE – Beleaguered West Indies will face the ultimate challenge in order to stay alive in the series when they face a supremely confident Australia in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.
Given little chance prior to the start of the three-Test series, those odds have since widened following the Caribbean side’s poor showing on the tour, and pundits are already predicting much of the same when the second Test bowls off today at 7:30 p.m. (Barbados time).
The tour began in nightmare fashion when the Windies went down by 10 wickets well inside four days to a Cricket Australia XI – a side with an average age of 21 and featuring six players on first-class debut.
And things grew worse when they suffered their worst defeat to Australia in 84 years in the opening Test in Hobart, losing by a humiliating innings and 212-run margin.
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