Australia needs seven wickets to win the first Test against West Indies, who must survive one more day, requiring a nominal 306 more runs to win at Perth Stadium.
Another magnificent Marnus Labuschagne century helped Australia to 2-182 at lunch on day four — a lead of 497 runs — before declaring and starting its quest for 10 wickets to win.
Brathwaite made his way to a fighting, brilliant century on day four, but Chanderpaul eventually fell to an around-the-wicket plan of attack from left-arm speedster Mitchell Starc, chopping on for 45, falling just short of dual half-centuries in his first Test. Blackwood survived one more Australian review — for caught behind off Cameron Green — before eventually edging Lyon to Labuschagne at short leg with just a few minutes left in the day's play.
He is just the eighth man to score a double century and a century in a single Test match, joining greats Doug Walters , Sunil Gavaskar , Lawrence Rowe , Greg Chappell , Graham Gooch , Brian Lara and Kumar Sangakkara .
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