Visitors Australia completed the three-match away Test series successfully against the hosts West Indies by winning it 3-0 after winning all three matches of the Test series. Sabina Park in Jamaica hosted the third and last Test of the series, which was a day/night Test match, and Australia won the last game of the series by 176 runs.
After Australia chose to bat first, they scored 225 runs. While West Indies replied with 143 all out, the Baggy Greens were bowled out for only 121 runs in their second innings. Chasing down the 204-run target in the fourth innings, West Indies were bundled out for only 27 runs.
Here are some key stats of the sensational fourth innings of the day/night Test match at Sabina Park (Kingston, Jamaica).
Second lowest Test total
West Indies were bundled out for only 27 runs.
- It was the second-lowest completed Test innings total. The lowest completed total in Test cricket is 26 by New Zealand against England during the 1955 Auckland Test match.
Three wickets in first over of a Test innings
Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc took three wickets in the first over of the fourth innings of the Test match.
After the former Indian left-arm pacer Irfan Pathan (hat-trick during the first over against Pakistan in the 2006 Karachi Test), Starc became the second bowler to record three wickets in the first over of a Test innings.
Fastest Test fifer
Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc completed his fifer in only 15 balls.
Starc recorded the fastest Test five-wicket haul. The previous record was 19 balls by Australian left-arm medium bowler Ernie Toshack during the 1947 Brisbane Test against India.
Scott Boland hat-trick
Scott Boland (Image Credit: X)
Australian right-arm fast-medium bowler Scott Boland recorded a hat-trick in the innings. In his second over of the innings, he dismissed Justin Greaves (caught by Beau Webster), Shamar Joseph (lbw), and Jomel Warrican (bowled) in three successive deliveries to complete his first hat-trick in international cricket.
Boland became the 10th Australian bowler to record a Test hat-trick.
Best bowling figures in 100th Test match
Playing his 100th Test match, Australian left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc had the bowling figures of 7.3-4-9-6 in the fourth innings of the match.
These are the best bowling figures (in an innings) for a bowler in the 100th Test match. The previous record was 19.5-6-54-6 by the Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan against Bangladesh during the 2006 Chattogram Test.
Record ducks in a Test innings
- It is the most ducks in a Test innings. The previous record was six ducks, which were recorded in nine Test innings.
