Australia v West Indies

After losing so disappointingly in Sydney all the fight had gone out of the West Indies and they were scarcely a match for Australia.

Lillee was fit again and returned to the Australian side in place of Walker, while Julien's broken hand kept him out of the West Indies side and Holder took his place.

As the result of his big scores in the series of minor matches between the Fourth and Fifth Tests, all of which he made going in first, Richards opened the batting with Fredericks and began the astonishing run of success which went through to the Oval the following August, by which time he had made more runs in Test cricket in a year than any other batsman.

After Australia had won the toss, Redpath made his second painstaking hundred of the series. He batted three and three-quarter hours and hit two 6's and six 4's. His first six was his first in a total of 66 Test Matches. Yallop and Ian Chappell also batted well and Gilmour hit hard for 95 in two hours nineteen minutes on the second morning.

In the West Indies first innings only a brilliant innings of 95 not out by Boyce saved them from having to follow on. For the first time in Australia he was seen at his exciting best with the bat. Earlier determined play by Kallicharran had given the innings some substance.

Redpath and Turner then gave Australia a start of 148 in their second innings, and although Redpath threw away his second hundred of the match when it was three for the asking, Turner reached his first century in a Test Match and in all batted four hours, forty minutes and hit fifteen 4's. He batted well in his slightly awkward looking left-handed way.

The West Indies were asked to score 490 in ten and three-quarter hours in the final innings. Richards made a brilliant 101 in three hours with seventeen 4's and Kallicharran made another good fifty.

On the fifth morning, and this was the first Test of the series to stretch into the last day, Boyce played some more splendid strokes, but by then the match had already been lost.