Australia Seek Winning Finish to Season

Roseau: Australia coach Mickey Arthur vowed his team will go for the West Indies' jugular in the third and final Test even if their full throttle assault backfires.

Australia have already ensured they will keep the Frank Worrell Trophy they have held for two decades after winning the first Test in Barbados and then seeing the rain-hit second match in Trinidad peter out into a draw.

But Arthur said his side will continue their positive approach, which was highlighted by two sporting declarations made by skipper Michael Clarke in the first two games.

Australia face a selection dilemma after fast bowlers Peter Siddle and James Pattinson were both forced to return home with back injuries.

That means Ryan Harris, man of the match in Barbados before being rested in Port of Spain, may be recalled while left-armer Mitchell Starc could also get the nod if the pitch looks likely to favour pace.

In Trinidad, Australia played two specialist spinners in Nathan Lyon and Michael Beer while paceman Ben Hilfenhaus remains the visitors' top wicket-taker with eight at an average of under twenty.

Windsor Park has only staged one other Test when India were the visitors 10 months ago and the match was drawn.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul earned the man of the match award, scoring a century and a half-century in a low-scoring affair.

The ground has been used in this year's regional 4-day competition and each match has also seen batsmen struggle with only one innings total above 300.

For the West Indies, Fidel Edwards, who bowled some excellent spells without luck in Trinidad, has some back soreness.

He was the most successful bowler for the West Indies in the previous Test at Windsor Park.

Ravi Rampaul, who is set to replace him, last played a Test in November 2011. He has been recovering from a bout of dengue fever and a shoulder problem.

West Indies will also be looking to seamer Kemar Roach to keep the pressure on Australia.

In Trinidad, he became the first West Indian since Curtly Ambrose in 1993, and the fifth West Indian overall, to pick up a 10-wicket match haul against Australia.

Kirk Edwards, with an injury to his left knee, has been withdrawn and replaced by the uncapped, left-hander Assad Fudadin.

He has only scored two centuries in eighty first-class innings, but both of those came in the recent regional 4-day competition.

Fidel Edwards finished the Trinidad Test with what the captain Sammy described as "a slight niggle" and he could be replaced by Ravi Rampaul. Bishoo has been released from the squad, so there is no chance of West Indies picking two spinners. The Guyana batsman Assad Fudadin has joined the squad but is unlikely to find a place in the starting line-up.

Teams from

West Indies DJG Sammy (captain), AB Barath, CS Baugh (wk), KC Brathwaite, DM Bravo, S Chanderpaul, N Deonarine, FH Edwards, AB Fudadin, KOA Powell, R Rampaul, KAJ Roach, S Shillingford.

Australia MJ Clarke (captain), SR Watson, MA Beer, EJM Cowan, PJ Forrest, RJ Harris, BW Hilfenhaus, MEK Hussey, NM Lyon, PM Nevill (wk), JL Pattinson, RT Ponting, PM Siddle, MA Starc, MS Wade†, DA Warner.

Pitch and conditions
Windsor Park is still in its international infancy. In its first Test, between West Indies and India last year, only a third of the wickets fell to spin. The forecast suggests there could be showers throughout the Test.

Stats and trivia

• Shivnarine Chanderpaul needs 82 runs to reach 10,000 in Tests.
• Should West Indies win, it will be the first time since 1999 a Test series between the two sides has not been won by Australia.
• Kemar Roach's ten-wicket haul in Trinidad was the first time a West Indies bowler had achieved the feat in a Test since Corey Collymore claimed 11 against Pakistan in Jamaica in 2005.

Match facts
April 23-27, 2012
Start time 1000 local (1400 GMT)