On Day 4, all Australian pacers needed was 90 minutes to dismiss the West Indies for 77 with in second innings to win the Test match 2-0 at the Adelaide Oval. This is also Australia’s highest winning margin over the West Indies, ensuring them to maintain their unblemished record in day-night Tests at the venue.
Starc was in the game from the start, burning a review on an LBW call against Devon Thomas that was overturned. The batsman hit a superbly placed cover drive in the same over to score the tourists’ first runs of the morning.
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Scott Boland, Michael Neser and Mitchell Starc picked 3 wickets each
But that was all Thomas would add to his overnight total as he went for another dazzling drive off the pacer and delivered a heavy outside edge past the keeper. Starc then dispatched the other overnight batter with a gem of a delivery that nipped back sharply enough to beat Jason Holder’s defense and sent the off-stump cartwheeling.
Alex Carey was responsible for Michael Nesser’s double strikes in the 39th over. Standing up to the pacers, the Australian wicketkeeper took two incredible crisp catches in the space of six balls, as both Roston Chase and Joshua da Silva left, leaving the West Indies looking down the barrel. After Nathan Lyon knocked back Alzarri Joseph’s stumps to notch up his 450th Test wicket, Neser and Carey teamed once again to wrap it up inside the first session for Australia.
Australia retained their top place in the ICC Test Championship 2021-23 rankings with the big win, their eighth of the season, rising to 108 points after 11 games. Meanwhile, the West Indies fell one position to eighth place.
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