Centurion Hussey confident of Aussie win

ADELAIDE – Mike Hussey was confident Australia could win the final test against West Indies after his unbeaten century left the match evenly poised on the third day on Sunday.

The tourists looked to have Australia in trouble when Dwayne Bravo triggered a middle-order batting collapse before they regained the initiative on the back of a brilliant 133 not out from Hussey. Australia finished with 428 for a first-innings lead of 23 then captured two quick wickets to reduce the West Indies to 68 for two at close of play.”I think there’s still plenty to play for in this game.It’s a big session tomorrow,” Hussey told a news conference.”We need to really try and keep the runs down, we need to consistently keep taking wickets and hopefully we can put them under a lot of pressure and I’m confident we can chase down whatever they set us.”Australia scored just 48 runs in the first session then slumped to 295-8 after lunch before Hussey rescued the innings with a 93-run partnership with Stuart MacGill for the ninth wicket.He then had a 40-run stand with Glenn McGrath for the last wicket.”I honestly didn’t think I had the chance to score a hundred here today but I have to give a lot of the credit to Stuart MacGill,” Hussey said.”I wasn’t really sure which direction which we were going to go and he really grabbed the situation, grabbed the game and gave us a very clear focus on exactly how we were going to go about it.”The West Indies were easily beaten in the first two tests but Bravo has given the tourists hope of a brighter a future with some brilliant performances.The 22-year-old from Trinidad scored 113 in Hobart to force the match into the final day when an early finish was looming then took six for 84 in Adelaide on Sunday with his medium pacers.”I got up this morning feeling good and thinking I was going to do something brilliant today,” Bravo said.-Nampa-ReutersAustralia finished with 428 for a first-innings lead of 23 then captured two quick wickets to reduce the West Indies to 68 for two at close of play.”I think there’s still plenty to play for in this game.It’s a big session tomorrow,” Hussey told a news conference.”We need to really try and keep the runs down, we need to consistently keep taking wickets and hopefully we can put them under a lot of pressure and I’m confident we can chase down whatever they set us.”Australia scored just 48 runs in the first session then slumped to 295-8 after lunch before Hussey rescued the innings with a 93-run partnership with Stuart MacGill for the ninth wicket.He then had a 40-run stand with Glenn McGrath for the last wicket.”I honestly didn’t think I had the chance to score a hundred here today but I have to give a lot of the credit to Stuart MacGill,” Hussey said.”I wasn’t really sure which direction which we were going to go and he really grabbed the situation, grabbed the game and gave us a very clear focus on exactly how we were going to go about it.”The West Indies were easily beaten in the first two tests but Bravo has given the tourists hope of a brighter a future with some brilliant performances.The 22-year-old from Trinidad scored 113 in Hobart to force the match into the final day when an early finish was looming then took six for 84 in Adelaide on Sunday with his medium pacers.”I got up this morning feeling good and thinking I was going to do something brilliant today,” Bravo said. -Nampa-Reuters