Advantage Australia at the Oval

Baugh does wicketkeeping drills with Andre Coley ahead of today’s all important second test against Australia.(Windiescricket.com)

From Colin Benjamin in Trinidad

Michael’s Clarke’s Australian side will go into today’s penultimate test of the Digicel three-test series and 12th edition of Sir Frank Worrell Trophy with the advantage against the home side at the Queen’s Park Oval, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, after their historic win in the opening test at “The Mecca”, Kensington Oval last week.

Australia’s three-wicket victory was only the second time (excluding the innings forfeit in Centurion between England and South Africa in 2000) that a team had managed to come back and win a Test despite declaring with a score less than that of their opponents in test cricket’s 126-year history.

In a series where the players have little time to recover mentally or physically given the