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Thanks to lunch being called directly after that Brandon King wicket, Captain Pat has two deliveries to complete the 13th over.

Shot! Shai Hope is swinging straightaway and is off the mark with a boundary through point.

They won’t die wondering here, the West Indies.

What a breakthrough on the stroke of lunch, getting Brandon King bowled for 14 after he looked so good to start his innings.

Seven wickets in that session, four of them West Indian, and it feels like we’re barrelling towards an early finale tonight.

The Australian bowling has been excellent to start, but it must be said the West Indian batting has been pretty putrid, albeit on a really tough pitch.

Top of off. Top of off. Top of off.

Pat Cummins spears it in, Brandon King plays down the wrong line and the off stump is bent back.

The Aussie skipper is the only bowler used without taking a wicket so far.

Brandon King is picking them off well though.

ANOTHER DOG CAMEO! It’s a different dog, just trotting across the outfield behind Pat Cummins at the top of his mark.

We had a black dog on day two and now a tan beauty is wandering around. But only in between deliveries. What a good boy.

We have a ball change. Pat Cummins takes the ball to Richard Kettleborough and it gets stuck in one of the rings, so they’re getting a freshie.

West Indies captain Roston Chase is throwing his hands at it outside off. That’s a bad shot on any pitch, but especially on this one.

Chase gets off the mark with an expansive drive through cover for two.

EDGED! Dropped? Did it carry? Yes. Brandon King lives to fight another day after his edge goes quickly towards the ground and Cameron Green does well to dive low to his left and get a hand to it, but he can only parry it away. It would’ve been one of the greatest catches ever had he pouched it.

The third ball from Beau Webster is a relatively innocuous one outside off, and Kraigg Brathwaite plays a hideous prod at it, getting an edge through to Alex Carey.

Not only was there no footwork, all his body movement was going towards the leg side before his back leg swung around after the nick.

Kraigg Brathwaite’s 100th Test ends in ignominious fashion.

Can he find some extra bounce?

And Starc is forced to do the fielding off the first ball of the over as Kraigg Brathwaite guides a ball behind point.

Cummins is wide with his first ball to Brandon King, who leaves as the ball rears up sharply. This pitch must be brutal to get in on.

An awkward back-foot drive from King, followed by an outside edge as he pushes forward. But this one doesn’t carry to Usman Khawaja.

FOUR! Full and crushed through mid-on with perfect form. Brandon King’s drives are gorgeous.

Another inside edge squirts too fine for Travis Head at short leg, so they’re running out another helmet for Sam Konstas, who slots in just behind square.

During the delay to get a helmet for Konstas, Kraigg Brathwaite’s walked off to get some sunglasses. It’s not the first time he’s batted in sunglasses. I love it.

But he’s almost nicked off straight away, fending away from his body, but fortunately down to the ground. Cameron Green parries away at third slip, but the ball sneaks through and Brathwaite takes a single.

FYI, the cordon is enormous. Beau Webster at second slip, Cameron Green at third and Mitchell Starc at gully. Wingspan for days.

FOUR! Brandon King is crushing that cover drive. He’s a confident man right now.

FOUR! He’s off the mark with a boundary through cover, picking up from his first-innings 75, which is the highest score of the series thus far.

A tough stay at the crease ends for Keacy Carty as he is drawn into a shot outside off and gets a feather through to Alex Carey.

The angle around the wicket in at his body was troubling Carty, and the variable bounce from both bowlers is wreaking havoc, maybe slowing down his footwork.

He pushes away from his body and takes a single on Steve Smith’s throw. Brathwaite is playing away from his body with his hands.

Keacy Carty is in the wars as another ball spears up and hits him on the bottom hand. The glove comes off for another inspection. If Travis Head doesn’t get a catch in this innings, I’ll be shocked.

The first ball is another hand grenade, threatening the edge and pads of Kraigg Brathwaite.

There’s a third slip in place now, with Sam Konstas joining the cordon.

Another edge. It looked like Travis Head was in the game for a second, but the ball goes behind square off Brathwaite’s inside edge.

He’s around the wicket to Carty. The Aussies are clearly keen to bowl at Keacy Carty.

The leg gully isn’t there for Starc, but Travis Head is still in at short leg.

Beaten! Starc goes past the outside edge. Carty looks less than pleased as he glowers at the pitch.

EDGED! For four! Carty is late on a full ball outside off and the ball explodes off his outside edge. Beau Webster moves high and to his right, but it’s too quick for him and he can’t handle. Did it go between his massive mitts?

Ouch! The first ball from Hazlewood rears up and hits Keacy Carty on the fingers. Not low, either. Up around the pinky of the right hand.

More variable bounce spearing up at the shoulder of Carty’s bat and this time the ball squirts away to fine leg for two runs.

The Australians put a leg gully in place for those balls catching gloves. It’s a delicate balance in this run chase for Pat Cummins, because Australia is absolutely in the box seat, but 277 runs isn’t that much to play with.

Whippage from Carty and he adds three more with a clip off his pads through mid-wicket.

Mitchell Starc is continuing. There’s no rush for the West Indies, with two days to chase down 277, but it feels like the longer a batter is out there, there’s a ball with their name on it.

Kraigg Brathwaite is off the mark in his 100th Test, pushing in front of point and taking two on Nathan Lyon’s arm.

Josh Hazlewood was the hero for Australia in Barbados with five wickets in the fourth innings, and he’s started on fire here.

Now he’s beating the outside edge of Keacy Carty. Swing and seam movement. Near enough to unplayable.