Live: Rain arrives with Australia desperate for runs on day three

There weren’t many runs scored, but that was a successful first half hour of play for the Australians.

Cam Green is still searching for a bit of fluency, while Nathan Lyon is looking secure enough.

The rain is still falling out there, and quite steadily now.

We’ll keep you informed.

Things are looking a bit gloomy out there as clouds roll in from over the mountains.

The ground staff have gathered on the boundary, ready to pounce on the slightest bit of precipitation.

Jayden Seales continues his work and Cam Green is watchful. Too wide from Seales.

And we’re heading off.

The rain hasn’t started yet, but you can see it rolling in.

The covers are on in a flash, and just as they’re secured, the sprinkling commences.

Not the most dynamic of starts to day three form the Australians, who have added just six runs from as many overs.

Joseph steams in again and he’s procuring an edge from Green. It squirts between gully and point and the batters run a couple.

Good running from Green, who completes a quick single after dropping one into the off-side.

Lyon does well to defend one back past Shamar.

Nathan Lyon leaves a wide one to end the over.

Lyon is missing one that he’s trying to pull and it’s  down legside for Shai Hope.

Seed! Another one pitching and moving away has Lyon playing and missing.

Lyon eases one forward of point for a couple.

Well defended from Lyon.

Australia now leads the West Indies by 51 runs.

Full and moving in by Seales and Lyon is pushing and missing.

Too good for the nightwatchman and that’s over.

Nathan Lyon is up on one leg and playing a nice-looking pull shot behind square for a single.

And Cam Green is shouldering arms to Seales.

He’s giving himself plenty of time to find some rhythm this morning, Cameron Green.

He must have been absolutely livid with himself after that first innings dismissal, when he nicked off horribly on the final ball before lunch only a matter of balls after being dropped.

There hasn’t been a sign of any rashness so far this morning as he’s back and defending the over’s final ball.

He’s got figures of 2/5 at the moment and is looking every bit his early career Test match average of 20.

Green is shouldering arms to one outside off.

And then defending into the off-side.

For Cam Green, this is a massive session. This is his sixth innings at number three for Australia – the previous five have been failures.

He’s still there at the end of this Seales over after pushing one towards mid-on for no run.

Good shot by Green! That’s a nice ball to receive first up. Slightly too straight and on leg stump, he works it off the hip for three.

No surprise Shamar Joseph has opened up from the other end on day three.

Lyon is cutting at one that jags back at him! However, there’s not enough width and it’s through to Hope.

Close! Massive leading edge from Lyon, which balloons to where an off-side bat pad would be. Fielders converge upon the falling ball and Shamar gets the closest with a dramatic dive. But the ball lands safe.

And Lyon is successfully negotiating the final couple balls of the day’s second over.

Is there room for both Green and Webster?

And the wrecking-ball right armer is coming over the wicket to the right handed nightwatchman Nathan Lyon.

Lyon is back and defending the first, and half missing, half leaving the second.

Any runs made by Nathan Lyon this morning are a bonus for the Aussies.

He’s underneath a short one next up.

And playing and missing at a ripping one nipping away from him.

Lyon wears a short one on the body and that’s a maiden to begin day three.

We’re not far off from the first delivery in Grenada.

Cam Green and Nathan Lyon are making their ways out to the middle. Can they find a way to keep out the sensational Seales and Shamar?

This is a massive session for Green.

 It’s looking lovely out there at the moment, but there is the threat of a little bit of weather lurking over the horizon…

Here’s a look back at all the wickets from day two.

I imagine all of you have completely reset your body clocks to Caribbean time by now, but just in case someone did the unthinkable and nodded off before the close of play this morning, here’s a look back at how things unfolded on day one.

In short:

– The West Indies lower order showed some steel to help it recover from a middle order collapse and take its side to within 33 runs of Australia’s first innings score of 286.

– Australia had a tricky 40 minutes of batting before stumps, during which it lost both Sam Konstas and Usman Khawaja.

– Australia will begin day three on 2/12 and 45 runs in front.

The new-look opening pair once again looked absolutely at sea yesterday evening.

The pair have scored 113 runs between them for an average of 14.13 so far this series.

Konstas has returns of 3, 5, 25 and 0 for an average of 8.25, whereas Khawaja has hit 47, 15, 16 and 2 for an average of 20.

Konstas has time on his side, while the 38-year-old Khawaja not so much.

Tom Moody has suggested a new pair could be tried as early as next week’s third test! What do we think?

Hello and welcome to day three of the second Test between Australia and the West Indies in Grenada. I’m Jon Healy and, along with Henry Hanson, we’re ready for a decisive day in this series.

The tourists are only six overs into their second innings but already lost both openers and have nightwatchman Nathan Lyon at the crease.

The ball is talking and the pitch is helping it natter, so we could see a lot of wickets today. I’m not expecting to see 18, but we’re averaging 12.4 per day through the first five days of the series, and day three of the last Test featured 16. So it’s not entirely impossible.

Either way, we’ll likely learn the winner of this Test and potentially the series today.