West Indies Test sets second lowest score in cricket history: world champion secures smallest total

Delhi: In the third Test match played at Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies suffered a very embarrassing defeat against Australia. Chasing the target of 205 runs, the entire West Indies team collapsed for just 27 runs, which is the second smallest score in Test cricket history.

The smallest team in Test cricket history

Earlier, in 1955, the New Zealand team could score only 26 runs against England in Auckland, which is the lowest score ever. The third place is South Africa, which has been reduced to 30 runs against England in 1924 and 1932. It is known that the New Zealand team won the first title of the ICC World Test Championship by defeating the Indian team in the year 2021 and the new champions of the red ball became the new champions of the ball.

Mitchell Starc created history

Australia’s fast bowler Mitchell Starc performed historic in this match. Playing in his 100th Test, he made a new world record by taking 5 wickets within just 15 balls. He took a total of 6 wickets for 9 runs and became the fourth Australian bowler to complete 400 wickets in Test cricket. This achievement makes him in the list of great bowlers of cricket history. Earlier, Arani Toshc, Stuart Broad and Scott Bolland took 5 wickets inside 19 balls, but Stark did this feat in only 15 balls.

Australian pacer hat -trick

At the same time, in this day-night Test match, Scott Bolland also took a hat-trick while bowling charismatic. He dismissed Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph and Joler Warikan on consecutive balls and became the 10th Australian bowler to take a hat -trick in Test cricket. Also, he also became the first bowler to take a hat-trick in a day-night test.

Australia won Test series

Talking about the match, Australia had scored 225 runs while batting first, in response to which the first innings of the West Indies was reduced to 143 runs. Australia scored 121 runs in the second innings and gave the West Indies a target of 205 runs to win, but the hosts were all out for just 27 runs. With this victory, Australia not only won the third Test by 176 runs, but also won the entire Test series 3–0.

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