Seamer Stuart Clark put Australia in a strong position yesterday with three quick wickets to leave the West Indies trailing Australia by 316 runs with seven wickets in hand.
Clark's excellent spell of three for 18, including the prize wicket of West Indies skipper Ramnaresh Sarwan, leaves the
hosts with plenty of work ahead of them at 115 for three chasing Australia's first innings total of 431.
Runako Morton (23) and Shivnarine Chanderpaul (25) saw the Windies through to stumps after they were struggling at 68 for three following a good day with the ball.
Clark bowled Devon Smith, who made a bright 32, and then provided wicketkeeper Brad Haddin with his first victim as he snapped up Sarwan, who had flashed outside off-stump.
He caused further damage with a beautiful delivery moving away from Brenton Parchment, who scored just nine off 60 balls.
Clark, who is playing his first test in the West Indies, said studying former team-mate Glenn McGrath had helped him adapt to Caribbean conditions.
"I thought about these wickets and I looked at quite a bit of footage of what Glenn did. He was really patient and bowled very close to the stumps. Stump-to-stump-type stuff - that's what worked for him. I am doing similar sorts of things," Clark said.
He was flattered by comparisons with McGrath, who retired after last year's World Cup.
"I don't think I'll ever be as good as Glenn, because I think Glenn is one of the greatest bowlers of all time. If you can emulate him in some way and be 80 per cent as good as he was, you'll have a fairly good test career."
Australia had dominated the first day, Ricky Ponting's superb 158 guiding them to an overnight total of 301 for four, but they ran into some aggressive bowling with Fidel Edwards ending with a five-wicket haul.
It looked like a good comeback by the West Indies, with Australia having added just 98 runs for the loss of five wickets before all-rounder Andrew Symonds found his form.
Symonds hit eight fours and two sixes in his knock of 70 not out.
