Mitchell Starc took the quickest five-wicket haul in Check match historical past as Australia secured a clean-sweep of their third Check towards a woeful West Indies, who have been dismissed for 27 of their second innings – the second-lowest rating in Check historical past.
In astonishing scenes in Kingston, West Indies simply narrowly prevented equalling New Zealand’s undesirable document of 26 towards England in 1955.
Starc eliminated John Campbell, Kevlon Anderson, Brandon King, Mikyle Louis and Shai Hope in 15 balls earlier than tea, giving up simply two runs within the course of.
His lbw towards Louis additionally introduced up his four-hundredth Check wicket, making him solely the fourth Australian to attain the feat, in his one centesimal Check match.
Starc then returned to take his sixth wicket from Jayden Seales shortly after tea to complete on 6-9 and safe a 176-run victory for Australia, who had already wrapped up collection victory with a match to spare within the second Check in Grenada.
The hosts, set a goal of 204 to win after they’d restricted Australia to 121 of their second innings, slumped to 0-3 within the opening over and shortly discovered themselves 11-6.
Though they’d managed to stabilise the dire scenario barely to get to 22-6 at tea, Scott Boland swiftly took a hat-trick when play resumed to deepen the hosts’ gloom earlier than Starc returned to cap his record-breaking day with a sixth wicket.
Boland’s figures have been three for 2 as he took the scalps of Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph and Jomel Warrica.
Greaves high scored for the West Indies with a mere 11, with leg byes (six) their second high scorer.
Louis and Alzarri Joseph every registered 4 runs apiece.
The Windies’ lowest complete earlier than Monday had been 47 of their second innings of the primary Check towards England in 2004.
The earlier finest five-wicket haul was from Starc’s fellow Australian Ernie Toshack, who took 5 wickets in 19 balls towards India in 1947.
“It’s been a fantastic series. I think we’ve seen some difficult batting conditions throughout,” mentioned Starc, who sits behind Shane Warne (708), Glenn McGrath (563) and Nathan Lyon (562) on Australia’s all-time Check wicket takers listing.
“It’s been a good few days, very enjoyable and I’ll go home with a smile on my face.
“We noticed final night time the circumstances with the laborious pink ball below lights. It is fairly troublesome. We did not suppose it might occur as rapidly immediately, till the solar went down a bit.”
Earlier, Alzarri Joseph took 5-27 as the West Indies bowled out Australia for 121 in their second innings, leaving a chase of 204 runs for victory. Australia began the third day at 99-6 but lasted only eight more overs.
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