West Indies openers Kraigg Brathwaite and Shamarh Brooks were both unbeaten at lunch on the first day of the tour match against Combined NSW and ACT.
The duo added 94 with captain Brathwaite (44no) and Brooks (47no) untroubled by a young attack at Canberra's Manuka Oval which includes recent Australian U19 representatives Liam Doddrell and Jack Nisbet .
The West Indies have two tour matches before the Test series begins in Perth on November 30 and will be keen to get their batsmen in form before taking on Australia's pace bowling attack.
Brathwaite is the most experienced of the West Indies batters and is 13th on the all-time Test list for his country with 4893 runs at an average of 34.45.
The 34-year-old Brooks did not make his Test debut until the age of 30 and has been in and out of the team in his short 11-Test career that includes a maiden century against Afghanistan in 2019.
Brooks is yet to open in a Test match for West Indies where he has batted at No.3 or in the middle order.
Tagenarine Chanderpaul, the son of West Indies great Shivnarine Chanderpaul, is expected to challenge to be Brathwaite's opening partner in the Test matches.
The 26-year-old is in the side and will get his chance in Canberra to state his case.
