Mitchell Starc picked up 6 wickets for 9 runs in 7.3 overs on Monday (Tuesday IST), and Scott Boland registered figures of 3 for 2 in 2 overs to help Australia bowl West Indies all out for just 27 runs in the second innings of the third Test played between the two teams at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica.
As many as seven West Indies batters failed to open their accounts, and the hosts suffered a humiliating defeat by 176 runs within three days in the pink-ball Test played under lights.
For his super show with the ball in his 100th Test for the Baggy Greens, Starc won the Player of the Match award, and he also bagged the Player of the Series award for dismissing a total of 15 batters in three matches.
The total of 27 runs by the West Indies is the second lowest by any team in the history of Test cricket.
The hosts had bowled out Pat Cummins’s led side for 121 runs in the second innings, but what followed after in the 204-run chase, no one ever expected.
Starc entered his name in the history books by becoming the fastest bowler to take a five-wicket haul in a Test match (15 balls), and in the process, he also completed 400 wickets in Test cricket for the Aussies. The left-arm pacer is the fourth cricketer after Shane Warne (708), Glenn McGrath (563), and Nathan Lyon (562) to dismiss more than 400 batters in the five-day format of the game for Australia.
