Australia is in excellent shape heading into their upcoming match against South Africa after sweeping West Indies 2-0. Stand-in skipper Steve Smith believes their only genuine issue is that their bottom middle order wasn't tested in the just-finished series.

Australia declared against West Indies in all four of their innings, losing only 19 wickets overall. They won the first Test in Perth by 164 runs and the pink-ball Test in Adelaide by a much larger margin of 419 runs.