THE woeful West Indies are rewriting history - for all the wrong reasons. Today they will be fighting to avoid their worst ever defeat after Peter Siddle and James Pattinson reduced Test cricket's walking dead to a decaying corpse at the MCG. 
Australia's batsmen have now compiled a staggering 1134 runs in two innings this series for the loss of just seven wickets. In reply, the West Indies have so far lost 24 wickets at 462.
It's time to spare them more pain and bring in the mercy rule, which sports like baseball use when one side has a large, insurmountable lead. At 6-91 chasing Australia's first-innings total of 4(dec)-551 heading into day three, the writing is on the wall.
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