Australia are poised to complete a big win in the final Test against the West Indies in Dominica on Friday.

At stumps on day four, the Windies were 5-173, still 197-runs off their victory target of 370 despite a century stand between Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Darren Bravo.

Veteran batsman Chanderpaul, easily the best performed batsman in the series, was dismissed in the final over of the day after a typically battling 69 when Michael Clarke (3-34) successfully referred an LBW call for his third wicket of the innings.

His demise and the loss of Bravo for 45 after a 110-run stand for the fourth wicket give Australia plenty of momentum for a quick end going into day five.

The duo came together with the score at 3-45 but resisted for over two hours to drag the game into a final day.

Shane Watson (1-20) eventually broke the partnership when he lured Bravo to edge a ball through to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade nearing the close of play.

Chanderpaul’s knock, the fourth time he’s past 50 in five innings in this series, included the highlight of becoming just the 10th player of all-time to score 10,000 career Test runs.

The 37-year-old Guyanese is just the second West Indies player to pass the mark behind Brian Lara.

Ben Hilfenhaus (1-14), who removed Adrian Barath for a duck after Ed Cowan took a superb diving catch at square leg, was the other wicket-taker for Australia.

Earlier, Shane Shillingford became the first Windies spinner in 46 years to take 10 wickets in a Test as Australia were dismissed for 259 in their second innings.

Shillingford picked up the scalps of Michael Hussey (32) and Hilfenhaus (six) to finish with 4-100 and complete a fine first Test in front of his home crowd.

Narsingh Deonarine (3-45) and Kemar Roach (3-40) were the other wicket-takers with Roach finishing with 19 wickets at 19.73 in the three-Test series.

Friday’s play begins at 10am (2400 AEST).