A brave rearguard action from the West Indies kept their hopes of salvaging a result from the third Test alive on day three of the third Test with Australia in Barbados yesterday.

Australia closed on 18 for two, a lead of 179, after bowling the West Indies out for 329.

With two days left, the tourists will want to give their bowlers time to bowl out the West Indies a second time and move 2-1 ahead in the four-Test series.