To complete a 3-0 series sweep in Jamaica, Australia beat the West Indies by 176 runs. In this Test, Australia delivered a ruthless performance, wrapping up the West Indies for just 27 runs.
Mitchel Starc and Scott Boland displayed brutal pace bowling that left statisticians scrambling to orchestrate the collapse of the West Indies, who just scored 27— now the second-lowest completed total in men’s Test history.
Starc ripped through the top order, taking five wickets in just 15 balls, which is now the new record for the fastest five-wicket haul in Test cricket.
His final figures of 6 for 9 are the best ever recorded by a player in their 100th Test, surpassing Muttiah Muralitharan’s 6 for 54.
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Meanwhile, Boland made his own history, registering the first-ever hat-trick in a pink-ball Test. He bagged the wickets of Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph, and Jomel Warrican in successive deliveries.
His match figures helped push his astonishing career average to 16.53—now the best for any bowler since 1915, with a minimum of 2,000 deliveries
The West Indies’ top six managed just six runs in total, the fewest in an innings where all six batted. The innings also featured a record seven ducks.