Twitter Reactions: Australia seals the series to continues 20 years of dominance

Steve Smith and Usman Khawaja scored half-centuries to crush an inspiring West Indies fightback, pushing Australia’s lead to an imposing 459 runs at the close of day three of the second Test on Monday. Following his first innings resistance, Bravo began with similar intent to frustrate Australia on the fourth day, and with Chandrika also obstinate, the Australians were unable to go on to further exploit Lyon’s initial break.

Fifteen minutes before lunch, Pattinson thought he had Chandrika LBW, and after Marais Erasmus declined the appeal, the Australians shaped to review the decision. Holder and Ramdin then combined for a stand of 103 that looked to be taking the Test into the final day. However Marsh’s persistence was to be rewarded with an edge from Ramdin, and the end followed swiftly.

Australia deservingly celebrated a fine show, but they had at least been made to sweat out for it. Having fought hard over the final two days of the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, the West Indies lost their final four wickets for 32 in 10 overs, allowing Steven Smith’s team to enjoy success inside four days after they declared before play began to set Jason Holder’s men a target of 460.

Australia now have an unbeatable lead of 2-0, going into the final Test match at Sydney starting next year. Let’s check out how the world of twitter reacted to another Australian victory.

And Australia win by 177 runs#AUSvWI

Now for England to wrap their game up in Durham! #SAvENG

— Matthew Jones (@matthewdjones) December 29, 2015

Aussies win again #AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/FQYtHsilgr

— Colin James Bettles (@ColinJBettles) December 29, 2015

West Indies lost 8 tests in 2015. They lost same no of tests in the whole decade of the 1980s. #AUSvWI @vivrichards56 @CuddyWalsh @irbishi

— Shahzad Tirmizi Syed (@shahzadtirmizi) December 29, 2015

@Jaseholder98 Congratulations to your team. Showed a lot of character and spirit in this test. #AUSvWI #BoxingDayTest

— Paul Daniel (@pauld08) December 29, 2015

Much better from Windies as Aussies wraps up another #BoxingDay win. Lyon is MoM #AUSvWI

— Bravo (@cvbharanidharan) December 29, 2015

#WI showed some fight in this final innings. But still a comfortable series win for #Aus. ✌?????#cricket #AUSvWI #test #BoxingDay

— OjasKumar (@OjasManvi) December 29, 2015

Australia seal 20 years of Worrell Trophy dominance at https://t.co/Io5O077ctg #Cricket #NZvSL #AusvWI #BBL05

— CricketZone (@CricketZone_IN) December 29, 2015

Congrats to @NathLyon421 on his man of the match performance – taking 7 wickets in the match. What a bowler he's become #AUSvWI

— Click (@ClickCollins) December 29, 2015

Oh wow, 3 wickets in 10 balls finished the #AUSvWI match. Didn't watch the last 7 overs as I assumed nothing would happen O_o

— RepScorpio Pro (@reptilescorpio) December 29, 2015

Once again the WI went down without a whimper. Managed to get through almost four days so that's a plus. #AusvWI

— Rahul Puri (@rahulpuri) December 29, 2015

The Aussies win again and it's Mitch Marsh the chief destroyer. ??#AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/sFQZAYlpdf

— Bleacher Report AUS (@BR_Aus) December 29, 2015

Finally WI showed some resilience despite their Test defeat. #AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/rlA4rM16R2

— CricTracker (@Cricketracker) December 29, 2015

WI v Aus in Australia

From 1970 – 2000
Played 36
Won 14
Lost 16
Drawn 6

From 2000 – 2015
Played 13
Lost 12
Drawn 1#AUSvWI

— Thilak Chinaman (@Talented_RoHit) December 29, 2015

what a remarkable year for @NathLyon421! Ends it with a Man of the Match performance. Quite fitting. @CricketAus #AUSvWI

— Nikhil Mane ??? (@nikhiltait) December 29, 2015

https://twitter.com/AFzal832/status/681736774901706752

It's the best I have seen @mitchmarsh235 bowl! Well done buddy

— Brett Lee (@BrettLee_58) December 29, 2015

For a Change West Indies Lost a Test on 4th day usually they have a habit of losing a Test match in 3 Days…#AUSvWI

— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) December 29, 2015

"Can I have ball tracking please?"#AUSvWI pic.twitter.com/6RVyhLHYVx

— The Wolf (@WillHillWolf) December 29, 2015

Just as Nathan Lyon himself predicted. 7 wickets. #AUSvWI @zozzer1966 pic.twitter.com/BDrQjomzIN

— David (@LeftofLeftField) December 29, 2015

WI v top 7
W-L-D 2000s
Away Tests

1-14-3 v ENG
1-7-2 v SAF
0-12-1 v AUS
0-6-2 v IND
0-4-4 v NZL
0-2-1 v PAK
0-7-3 v SL#notpretty#AUSvWI

— Joshua Kay (@js_kay) December 29, 2015

https://twitter.com/iBuzman/status/681732283867398145