Summary West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl in the second Test against Australia.
MELBOURNE (AFP) - The West Indies won the toss and chose to bowl in the second Test against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Saturday.
Australia left out Shaun Marsh for the return of fit-again Usman Khawaja, while uncapped paceman Scott Boland was released from the squad.
Khawaja has been sidelined with a hamstring injury since scoring 174 and 121 in the first two Tests against New Zealand last month and proved his fitness with an explosive 109 off 70 balls in the Big Bash League Twenty20 series last weekend.
It will otherwise be an unchanged side for the showpiece Boxing Day Test with Australia favoured to retain the Frank Worrell trophy against the struggling tourists.
That looks on the cards after the Windies were thrashed by an innings and 212 runs inside three days in the first Test in Hobart. They last won a Test in Australia almost 18 years ago.
The Windies gave bowling allrounder Carlos Brathwaite his Test debut, following a tour-ending ankle injury suffered by paceman Shannon Gabriel in Hobart, in the only team change.
Teams:
Australia: David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Mitch Marsh, Peter Nevill, Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon.
West Indies: Kraigg Brathwaite, Rajendra Chandrika, Darren Bravo, Marlon Samuels, Jermaine Blackwood, Denesh Ramdin, Jason Holder (capt), Kemar Roach, Jerome Taylor, Carlos Brathwaite, Jomel Warrican.
Umpires: Marais Erasmus (RSA), Chris Gaffaney (NZL).
TV umpire: Ian Gould (ENG).
Match referee: Chris Broad (ENG).
