The fourth day in Barbados provided a reminder that Australia's Test match pedigree is far in advance of West Indies

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the fourth day of the first Test in Bridgetown

Shane Watson needs to find greater composure in order to become Australia's batting barometer

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the third day of the first Test in Barbados

Australia will be watching Shivnarine Chanderpaul's utilitarian stance for vast tracts of this Test series unless the visitors can find a way of forcing him to take uncharacteristic risks, Shane Watson has said

Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Darren Sammy and their colleagues tested Australia like they haven't been tested for some time

Whenever the opposition starts to get chatty, Kraigg Brathwaite knows he doing his job

ESPNcricinfo presents the Plays of the Day from the first day of the first Test in Barbados

Kraigg Brathwaite provided Australia with a reminder of how much steel West Indies have added since Darren Sammy and Ottis Gibson took charge of the side

Australia's cricketers are satisfied with the new performance-based components of their forthcoming pay deal, Michael Hussey has said

West Indies are trying to build a robust team culture and Narine will miss out on that each time he sits out of a series for the national side

Australia and West Indies have changed much since their last meeting. Now they may discover how worthwhile those changes have been

Seductive as it may be in these parts, it can take as little as an hour to tumble towards Test match defeat

Matthew Wade is his own man, a tough competitor who has fought through plenty of obstacles to reach the baggy green. But his performances will be weighed up against those who came before him

There is a feeling around the Caribbean that the downtrodden West Indies may finally be building a team that inspires confidence

Narsingh Deonarine's recall to the West Indies Test team to face Australia is a temporary solution to the absence of Marlon Samuels and has arrived despite continued reservations about his fitness, the coach Ottis Gibson has candidly admitted

Australia's batsmen were briefly discomforted by spin for a second time before rolling to an eight-wicket victory over the WICB President's XI in the three-day tour match at the Three Ws Oval in Barbados

Carlton Baugh, the West Indies wicketkeeper, has openly questioned Australia's readiness to battle the spin of Devendra Bishoo after the tourists were made to look ordinary by a modest pair of local slow bowlers in their only warm-up for the Caribbean Tes

Based on the evidence of two days in Barbados, the adjustment to life on Caribbean pitches will take rather more time for Australia's batsmen than it has for the bowlers