Bravo stresses on confidence factor ahead of 2nd Test

Darren Bravo scored a classy 108 in the first innings in Hobart, but was let down by the comprehensive lack of sustenance from the rest of the batting order

Investigate the scorecard from West Indies' visit match in Geelong at the weekend and you'd be excused for supposing it was as aimless as warm-up diversions get. A two-day match against a Victorian XI including just two players - neither of them bowlers - with top of the line experience. Be that as it may, Darren Bravo trusts that if his kindred batsmen increased only one thing from the diversion it is this: certainty.

West Indies have been distressfully inadequate with regards to it generally. In Sri Lanka in October they were completely crushed and none of the batsmen scored hundreds of years in the two Tests; truth be told, just Bravo and Jermaine Blackwood oversaw to such an extent as a fifty. That was trailed by a visit amusement in Brisbane that the group lost to a new kid on the block Cricket Australia XI, which thusly was trailed by a devastating three-day misfortune in the first Test.

In any case, as poor as West Indies were in Hobart, there were several empowering signs. Bravo himself scored a tasteful 108 in the first innings, however was let around the complete absence of backing from whatever is left of the batting request. In the second, Kraigg Brathwaite wound up in a comparable position, posting 94 out of an aggregate of 148. More move down in either innings or it could have been a much more tightly challenge.

Along these lines, as powerless as the Victorian assault was in Geelong, West Indies were still satisfied that Blackwood, in the wake of making a couple in the Hobart Test, oversaw 69 that Brathwaite moved down from his Test exertion with 78 and that Marlon Samuels and Denesh Ramdin in any event invested some energy in the center. Bravo did not bat in Geelong but rather was satisfied with what he saw, and trusts that the batters will be better for it arise Boxing Day.

"It is simply an issue of certainty," Bravo said. "Coming into this arrangement the vast majority of our batsmen didn't generally have that certainty. We lost the arrangement in Sri Lanka, we lost the practice amusement also in Brisbane. It's a matter of certainty.

"It's essential that at whatever point we knock it out of the park bat we invest some energy out in the center. On the off chance that we invest energy we're certainly going to score runs. Normally we play forceful cricket where batting is concerned. It's simply a question of us investing energy out in the center and setting up a decent battle.

"It's essential we take a gander at the positives. In the practice diversion youthful Blackwood played really well, and in addition Kraigg Brathwaite. The bowlers had a decent run, including Jerome Taylor. The folks are putting in the work, it's essentially an issue of us going accessible there likewise performing."

West Indies capable on the mcg on Tuesday shockingly before the Test, which begins on Saturday, while the Australians will start preparing on Wednesday. The Victorian quick bowler Scott Boland has been added to Australia's squad as a harm swap for Nathan Coulter-Nile, keeping in mind Josh Hazelwood, Peter Siddle and James Pattinson remain the imaginable assault, Bravo knows from his Hobart ton that scoring opportunities will introduce themselves.

"The bowlers of Australia, they take a planning precisely how they need to get us out," Yes they are a decent group yet by the day's end they are still people. They're going to present awful balls and it's simply a question of putting it away. I don't think you ought to be impeded excessively. Try not to be scared by the Australian bowlers. Simply back yourself and your capability.

"When you are not scoring innings it is unbreakable to lift yourself up. I trust the folks have that kind of versatility in them. The vast majority of us have scored worldwide hundreds. We have demonstrated that we are certainly equipped for playing at this level. It is simply an issue of going out there and investing some energy."

It was likewise simple to overlook after the three-day result in Hobart that at lunch on the very beginning, West Indies were seemingly in the more grounded position, having grabbed three wickets after Australia batted. Nonetheless, they then permitted Adam Voges and Shaun Marsh to incorporate a record fourth-wicket association that batted West Indies out of the match.