IT took Michael Clarke until the last Test of his career to enforce the follow on; Steven Smith has done it in his fourth as Australia’s full-time captain. Smith asked West Indies to bat again after his fast bowlers rattled through the West Indies tail on the third morning in Hobart, taking only five overs to claim the remaining three wickets of the innings.However, there was time for Darren Bravo to complete a well-deserved century, his fighting innings far and away that stand-out in an otherwise listless West Indies batting display. Bravo began the morning on 94 and brought up his hundred – the seventh of his Test career – in the first over of play, with a pair of boundaries driven through the off side off Peter Siddle.
But the celebration was short-lived. He lost his partner Kemar Roach for 31 in the next over when he edged behind off the bowling of Josh Hazlewood, and next ball Jerome Taylor chopped on for a golden duck to have Hazlewood on a hat-trick. It was the last ball of the over so Hazlewood had to wait for his hat-trick delivery and when it arrived, Jomel Warrican survived a ball that lobbed off his leg out of reach of bat-pad.
The next over brought the end of the innings when Bravo tried to force some late runs and was caught at point off a top edge, giving Siddle his second wicket. Bravo finished with 108 from 177 deliveries and although his was only the ninth wicket to fall, Shannon Gabriel’s foot injury meant he did not bat and West Indies had been dismissed for 223, still 360 behind the Australians.(ESPN Cricinfo)