Bridgetown.
For almost three days the West Indies dominated the first Test against Australia, after making a respectable 4449 for nine declared, they had the Australians on the backfoot in their first innings at 250 for 7 but eased the pressure off their opponents and the last three batsmen accumulated 156 runs.
This inspire captain Michael Clarke to declare with a first innings deficit of 43 runs, half hour before tea, his action appeared to be mind bloggling for the home team.
Ben Hilfenhaus then dismantled the West Indies top order in the second innings, leaving them reeling on four runs for three wickets at tea. He took the wickets of openers Adrian Barath (2) and Kraigg Brathwaite (0), in his second over and removed Kirk Edwards for one in his next over.
The die was was cast for the West Indies, at the end of the fourth day, the West Indies were reeling at 71 for 5 an overall lead of a mere 114 runs.
Yesterday they were all out for 148 runs, Kemar Roach with 25 in 82 minutes and wicket -keeper Carlton Baugh were the only lower order batsmen to offer any prolonged restistance.
Set a target of 192 runs for victory, Australia made the runs for the lost of 7 wickets.
Captain Darren Sammy told the press at the end of the match, his advice to his team is to keep their heads high.
"We did a lot of good things and remember in the pre-match interview both captain said one bad hour could turn around the game, and that's exactly what happen in this test", Sammy said.
We dominated Australia for three and a half days and even today (yesterday) when we bowled we made them fight for that 190, the team have shown throughout the One Day and Twenty 20 series we can compete and win games against good opposition", he added
The West Indies seems to be a much better unit now than in previous 
years, while most West Indians accept that some progress has been made in the past year, it just is not enough for Sammy and his men to be just competitive. They must learn how to win
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