What a day! Alzarri Joseph (32 off just 21 balls) and debutant Kevin Sinclair (16no from 37) put on 41 in just 32 balls to close out an eventful end to proceedings.

Mitchell Starc, who looked to have a bit to say to Joseph in his final over before stumps, will be pleased his pace partner Josh Hazlewood got the big-hitting tail-ender out before the close of play.

That was thanks to Steve Smith’s third catch of the innings and 10th of the series. Seven of the eight wickets to fall today were to catches behind the wicket off pace bowlers.

Starc finished as the day’s standout bowler with figures of 4-68 from 20 overs having earlier passed the 350-wicket milestone.

So the Windies will resume day two on 8-266. The fact they are still batting in this Test is almost entirely down to Kavem Hodge and Joshua da Silva. Their 149-run partnership after the Aussie quicks ran through the Windies in the opening session showed plenty of heart. The visitors will fancy their chances if they can push their total up towards 300 tomorrow afternoon.

A fourth scalp for Mitchell Starc with Kavem Hodge feeding Steve Smith another catch at second slip.

That’s a ripping ball from Starc, who is looking very threatening with this second new ball. Hodge closed the face of his bat a little but Ricky Ponting, on Seven, says: “I don’t think he did much wrong.”

A top innings from the Windies’ No.5, playing in only his second Test. Australia will be eager to knock the Windies over before stumps now with the score at 7-225.

OUT! Australia finally get the wicket they have been chasing for three-and-a-half hours of play.

Nathan Lyon spears one in from around the wicket and Joshua da Silva is caught on the pad in front of the stumps.

His best hope on the review was if it was pitching outside leg-stump, but as soon as he saw it bounced in line, he started walking.

That ends a tremendous 149-run stand between da Silva and Kavem Hodge. It is the biggest partnership against Australia in a day-night Test.

We speculated earlier how Australia might celebrate if the Covid-positive Cameron Green took one of his trademark gully hangers. Well, we nearly found out.

What a grab that would have been. Hodge was on 59. It is the closest Australia have gotten to a wicket since Da Silva and Hodge joined forces on 5-64. At the end of that Starc over, the Windies were 5-187.

This partnership, which is approaching the biggest ever against Australia in a day-night Test, continues on.

Dual fifties up for the Windies – Da Silva brings his up off 109 balls, the over after Hodge (118 balls) got there for the first time in Tests – and so is the 100-run partnership between the duo.

Shamar Brook’s heroics in Adelaide aside, these have been the best performances by West Indians on this tour so far.

No reason why they cannot continue this for some time uet given how batter friendly conditions have been after the new ball.

Australia are trying plenty of different things. Nothing is troubling this pair right now.

Australia are struggling for a breakthrough. Ben Stokes and Jack Leach are batting.

Sounds familiar? Thankfully, for Australian fans, this time about 9,000 kilometres separates England’s 2019 Ashes Headingley heroes from the Aussie bowling attack. You can re-read Andrew Ramsey’s report from that madcap day here, for those inclined.

An interesting quirk that the Hyderabad and Gabba Tests have identical sessions times despite the four-and-a-half hour time difference.

You can follow the India-England Test here. Stokes is currently 66no and Leach (0no) is supporting him ably in a gripping start to the five-match series.

Marnus Labuschagne gets a go with the ball in the final over before the second break…

… but no luck for the part-time leg-spinner.

West Indies are 5-145. After the visitors’ poor first-up session with the bat, that was a terrific effort from Kavem Hodge (44no) and Joshua da Silva (37no) to get through the middle stanza of play without losing a wicket.

The Australians struggled to find any movement after the shine went off that pink pill. That tends to be the case in day-night Tests. The question now is whether that ball still has enough hardness to move about under lights during the final session.

Australia might rue bowling their overs as slow as they have; 53 in four hours of play so far. That leaves them 37 to get through in the final session. It is in their interest to bowl the next 27 quickly to get to the 80-over mark and get that second new ball, if the Windies are still batting. Their pacemen will expect to be more potent under lights than they would be the following afternoon in the sun.

If there is no swing or zip off the pitch, expect to see a fair bit of Nathan Lyon (and maybe more of Labuschagne too) when play resumes at 7pm local time.

The Australians are cycling through their bowlers but it has been top batting from the West Indies’ No.5 and 7 since dinner. Da Silva has just driven Starc through mid off – Ricky Ponting, on Seven, calls it “as good a shot as there’s been today”.

They need this to continue for some time yet if they want to post a decent first-innings total.

This is the tourists’ first 50-plus run partnership of the series and also the first of more than 100 balls.

But … that sun is close to setting and that is typically when batting becomes very difficult against the pink ball. Look at those shadows lengthening:

The Aussies have bowled less than 50 overs with this pink Kooka – will they be able to get it to hoop under lights?

There might have been fears they might not have gotten to triple digits, but Kavem Hodge and Joshua da Silva have nudged the Windies’ score past 100.

They have batted sensibly since the dinner break, though both have put the pressure back onto the Aussies at times. Da Silva has been targeted with short balls having gotten out hooking in both innings in Adelaide, but the keeper hit Pat Cummins for back-to-back boundaries. Hodge meanwhile rode a Starc bouncer over fine leg for six.

There has been a distinct shift in their approach to full and good-length balls; more tight defence, less flashy drives.

Good fight from the visitors.

Joshua da Silva and Kavem Hodge are at the crease attempting to rebuild. They have Starc and Cummins to deal with straight after the dinner break, called thus despite that break being taken from 4-4.40pm local time.

Who eats dinner that early?

Catching our breath after that wild first session. The Windies are 5-64 from 25.2 overs.

Here’s what Pat Cummins, speaking to Fox Cricket, had to say about milestone man Mitchell Starc.

“He is the most resilient player I’ve ever seen. He is just desperate to play even when he shouldn’t be. He just straps himself up and gets out there. A huge nod to his resilience as much as his skill.”

West Indies must be wondering if they went too hard with their stroke-play in that session. Another telling quote from Cummins at the break.

“The pink ball softens up pretty quickly, so you want to make the most of it while it’s still hard.”

It’s one thing to show intent against arguably the world’s best attack, but there was a recklessness to the way Kraigg Brathwaite’s men went about it there. Could they have shown some early restraint and then looked to cash in later when conditions are more in their favour? The Aussies will be delighted to have gotten half the wickets before that pink Kookaburra begins to lose its potency.

On Cummins, Seven’s Trent Copeland had a nice segment before the break pointing out that the Test skipper is on track for the best summer by Australian bowler since Bert Ironmonger’s 1931-32 campaign (who could forget that one?)

Another edge, another Mitchell Starc wicket! It has been catching practice for the Australian slips cordon. Starc has figures of 3-11 from 7.2 overs.

Usman Khawaja takes his second snare at first slip, this one a nice grab low down off Justin Greaves’ edge. The television umpire takes a look but, yes, that’s clean.

West Indies are a miserable 5-64 at the ‘dinner’ break after they elected to bat first.

The Australians could be batting before dusk at this rate…