Mitchell Starc, playing his 100th Test match, did not allow the West Indies batsmen to stand with the pink ball. Starc crossed his mark of 400 wickets in Test cricket and also achieved the feat of taking 5 wickets in an innings for the 16th time in Test cricket and Scott Boland became the 10th Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in the long run of the game.
Australia captured the trophy by 3-0 after bowling out West Indies for the second lowest score in Test history in the Jamaica Test on Monday. Chasing a target of 204 runs to win at Sabina Park, the West Indies were all out for just 27 runs in 14.3 overs. Mitch Starc gave the best bowling of his career, taking 6 wickets for 9 runs in 7.3 overs with 4 maidens. This is the best performance by an Australian in the West Indies since 1955.
Starc is playing his 100th test match and destroyed the top performance of West Indies with the pink ball. He crossed the mark of 400 wickets in test cricket. Starc has a total of 402 wickets while in terms of fast bowling with left hand, only Pakistani player Wasim Akram is ahead of Starc who has taken 414 wickets. Now Starc is 12 wickets away from him and in the longest process of the game he performed the feat of taking 5 wickets in an innings for the 16th time. This fast bowler with left hand has been chosen as the best player of the match. He took 3 wickets in his first over of West Indies’ second innings. He gave a shock and took 5 wickets in just 15 balls which is a record in test cricket
Scott Boland became the 10th Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in Tests
Scott Boland became the 10th Australian bowler to take a hat-trick in Test cricket. Boland destroyed the lower order of West Indies after the tea break and dismissed Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph and Jomel Warrican in three consecutive balls. During the presentation, Australian player caption Pat Cummins said while laughing that this match was crazy, it seemed as if a game was being played in fast forward. Mitchell Starc was given the man of the match presentation. Mitchell Starc said that he had not thought that today’s match would end so quickly.
In the second innings of West Indies, 7 of their players could not even open their account which is an unwanted record for West Indies. Australia won this match by 176 runs. West Indies’ caption Rostan Chase said, it was very disappointing. We were in such a situation where it seemed that we can win this match, but our players played very poorly. This kept happening again and again in the entire series, that’s why it was even more disappointing.
In this test match, Australia won the toss and decided to bat first. Their first innings were all out for 225 runs. In reply, the West Indies team could score only 143 runs in their first innings. Australia were all out for 121 runs in the second innings and West Indies were given a target of 204 runs. But the West Indies batsmen could not stand in front of the Kangaroo batsmen and were all out for 27 runs.
Lowest score in Test cricket
26 — New Zealand vs England, 1955
27 — West Indies vs West Indies, 2025
30 — South Africa vs England, 1896
30 — South Africa vs England, 1924
35 — South Africa vs England, 1899
Fastest bowler to take 5 wickets in Tests
15 balls – Mitchell Starc (AUS) vs West Indies, 2025
19 balls – Ernie Toshack (AUS) vs India, 1947
19 balls – Stuart Broad (ENG) vs Australia, 2015
19 balls – Scott Boland (AUS) vs England, 2021