Australia v West Indies: first Test, day three – live

Good morning from Adelaide, because it’s the morning here. Shaping up to be a warmer day than the last few, bright sunshine already draped over the ground at just past 9am local time. A gaggle of camera operators are out by the pitch with a couple of TV presenters, a couple of Cricket Australia uniforms, and one member of the ground staff belting the bowler’s footmarks with the big metal plate on a pole that has different names around the world.

What do we have for you today? Welllllll, maybe not much, if we’re completely honest. West Indies will resume the third innings of the match still 22 runs behind, and with four wickets in hand. So they could yet be bowled out to lose by an innings.

If they can knock off those 22 runs then they will at least ensure that there is a fourth innings, and make Australia bat again. But it’s a distant hope to think that they can build enough of a lead to test out Australia. If they somehow can, it will be a great spectacle.

Joshua da Silva, the wicketkeeper who is a decent hand with the bat, will resume on 17. Alzarri Joseph is carded to join him, after a wicket fell in the final over last night. Nathan Lyon will have one ball remaining from that over.