Lara kept rotating his bowlers around; the West Indies fielders flung themselves around with some vim, and Australia's bid to further up the tempo resulted in wickets falling.

In the 31st over, Dwayne Bravo got Michael Clarke - whose innings, on the day, was a mixture of good strokeplay and long periods when he seemed unable to get the ball off the square) playing half cock to a ball that cut in from outside off.

The prodigious movement took Clarke on the pad in front of the stumps, ending a 98-run partnership @ 6.06 that threatened to put Australia way out in front (41/71; 174/3).

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