Live: West -India closes on the score of Australia on day two in Barbados

And Hope works through that big gap through point. A single to start us.

This will certainly be the last of the session, but the batters of West -India do not take any risks. They are gardening and chat between every delivery.

Chase is still working by that gap on the off-side for a single.

A broad to end from Webster and that is lunch.

Attritional things that are currently there, while Starc starts the 50th about the innings.

Hope defends a good ball.

After that flurry of boundaries to start his innings, Hope dug itself a hole here.

Wicketkeeper in the West -India, however, does not seem to be worried about his score rate because he leaves one outside.

Yorker! Hope that almost his bat will bring down on time and in the process it squirts for a few by Point.

Hope is shoulder arms.

And the last ball of the over is defended in the off-side.

Run! Chase opens the knife and blows one behind point. It looks like a border for all the money. But from nowhere a diving goat brings it in and the batters come back a few.

The next is too wide for Chase to worry about.

Chase is one back past Webster. There is a scream of “yes” quickly followed by “no!” Because the ball is half gathered.

The last ball of the over is too wide again, and again Chase is another shoulder arms and it is through to Carey.

A little too directly from Starc and Hope it works attractively through mid-wicket for a few.

A pretty strange hour or so hear for the Windies – Australia has to make something for lunch, which is about 10 minutes away.

The television commentators have wanted to see some kin music for a while, and it seems that they have finally got their wish with a number of deep squares and fines that come into play.

And yes, Starc hits one in the back of a length. Chase waves in the line.

That’s over.

Evening, Mike!

Well, you would think that some of him should be, but as soon as Hope got those few boundaries, Lyon decided to go around the wicket and shoot them quickly.

And then he was taken out of the attack.

Australia turns to his fifth bowling option.

Not much is happening there at the moment for the tourists.

The first two of Webster are wide and left alone by Chase.

And the third is even wider and leaves the air, and Chase hunts but makes no contact. The referee does not call it a front foot.

Webster finds his line and Chase leaves a few that is closer to the stumps.

He comes over the Wicket to the right -handed Chase, who defends the first of it.

A quirky from Starc is too short and wide and is only left by Chase.

This is fuller and Chase rises up. However, the ball is good and really on the carpet before he reaches the field player at the exit point. No run.

Starc misses his line and it is on the leg side. Chase tries to view it, but gets nothing on it. A strangulation of the leg side is currently the best chance of Australia on a wicket.

Leading edge to complete the transfer – the batters run for a single one.

And he is still near the Wicket and shoots a few.

Hope works a few on the leg side.

Four! Another one in the body is concealed behind the square. It is in the air and it seems that one of the two men near the Lagide might be in the game … but they are not. It flies along both and to the fence and that is the 50 partnership for these two.

And beyond.

And he is around the Wicket to the left -handed chase for his first spell of the day.

Starc has just returned from a length and Chase is back and defends.

Tampered! But directly to mid-wicket and it’s not a run. Starc threw it a bit and you like that he was looking for that characteristic wonder ball.

This slips over Chase that leaves it alone. Going well to Carey.

Starc serves a bit of half a volley that pushes Chase in an opening through the cover point. It is in the air and not completely timed, but the batters come back a few.

That’s over.

Broken! Shai Hope frees the arms, plants the front leg and just thunder Lyon back over his head. Four runs.

Woah! That is even better. A single had put Roston Chase into strike and he steps forward and plays a beautiful, loft -drive over the fence. That’s six.

Lyon says that enough is enough and he moves around the wicket and shoots a faster.

Chase is back and works through midwicket for a single to end the over.

12 of them.

Cummins is in Chase who is back and defends.

This one is a little right and Chase can work on Sam Konstas on short leg. The batters come back a few.

A shorter is left rather dramatically alone by Chase, which turns his entire body and brings his bat down like a light sword in the line.

Chase is far behind one to transfer.

Loopy van Lyon to start with. Chase is back and then defends and pushes the next back past Lyon for a single.

Interesting field here – a slip and two short legs.

Play! He came in a bit from Lyon, thump well outside and turned enough to get the hope outside the leg stump.

That’s over.

Hope is back and defends the first ball of the over.

Shai Hope is an interesting cricket player. He had a bit of a stop-start test career, and when he played, he did not put the world exactly alite. An average of just over 25 out of 38 games does not reflect its quality. His ODI statistics are excellent. He is on average slightly less than 50 out of 139 games.

So all that means, he has the opportunity to grow up here today.

Beauty of Cummins! He hits one in a little fuller and De Hoop presents his bat but misses it completely while the ball goes away from the seam.

Hope waves outside a short to end the over.

Chance! Thick edge of Chase, which flashes with a wide outer stump. It flies past Khawaja with the first slip that was full, but can’t get a hand on it. The ball racet to the border.

A nice answer from Chase, who is going on one by a few along Lyon.

Two dots to end the over.

He has been lubricated so far today, Pat Cummins.

And he can be converted with his first few deliveries after a drink – Roston Chase defends and then the arms to a wider.

Chase dangles the bat from a touch and Frans cuts it behind Square for a single.

Shai Hope defends.

This one gets up a bit and hope is the chopping on the

So we will see Nathan Lyon in the first hour.

He will love the bounce that is available on this deck – and the turn that must also be offered. Will be very interesting to see how it plays for him.

Slip, leg slip and a bat cushion in place while Hope hits in the middle of a single.

Lyon can be a conservative starter with his line, so don’t expect fireworks in the first few balls.

The pursuit, the ball is beating to Midwicket for a different single.

Hope immediately returns to his fold and defends firmly.

There is a slow turn, hope to get deep into its fold to view and defend that twist.

Around the Wicket now from Lyon and Hoop is moving to cover, where it is stopped well.

Hope drives again and again, Marnus Fields in the briefs.

That is the first over and it has been a decent one for West -India.

I am a Gunna a break and Henry Hanson is going to take over to have you lunch.

No Lyon yet, maybe the next change.

Chase gets a bouncer outside and he leaves it alone, just about, the bat that stagnates dangerously outside and close to the ball while it flew by.

Another broad bouncer trying to seduce the wild shot.

Tight outside this time, fuller, but still a bit too much up to challenge the stumps. Excitement somewhat unfounded from around the bat, the three briefs make a lot of noise.

Chase leaves outside.

This has been a very good start for West – India to day two – only King’s temporary traffic on the day of the hosts.

Out outside, left alone by Chase.

Beat! That is a ripper of a ball to transfer – so tight to the stump that chase just had to poke. Great stuff.

On the first day, the host Omroep explained that you would always first hit Barbados and, given the fragmentary nature of the grass on the strip, it was expected that it would separate around day four or five.

So it was interesting to see that Batting was so difficult for the Aussies on the first day.