India continued to urge Australia to play their best on days three and four. Demonstrating why they have been the best Test team since the World Test Championship started.
India continued to urge Australia to play their best on days three and four. Demonstrating why they have been the best Test team since the World Test Championship started.
India continued to urge Australia to play their best on days three and four. Demonstrating why they have been the best Test team since the World Test Championship started.
However, Australia had fallen so far behind on the first two days that even on day five. They had little hope. Hope it was, especially after seeing how lifeless the field appeared on the fourth evening.
Australia defeated India by 209 runs with a total of 469 (Head 163, Smith 121, Siraj 4-108), 270 for 8 (Carey 66, Jadeja 3-58), and 234 (Kohli 49, Lyon 3-41, Boland 3-46).
Australia finally broke the resistance to win the World Test Championship for the first time. Despite India’s valiant efforts throughout six sessions beginning on the third day to offer themselves some chance on the final day. India, the last two times runners-up. Has defeated Australia in their last four Test series—two in India and two in Australia—but Australia was the better team in the circumstances in England. Where they will now face the hosts in The Ashes.
India continued to urge Australia to play their best on days three and four. Demonstrating why they have been the best Test team since the World Test Championship started.
However, Scott Boland delivered the kind of performance you would expect from a champion on the fifth morning. With seven wickets remaining. India started the day needing 280 runs, but the fourth-wicket partnership between Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane was already worth 71 runs. Boland continued to deliver with length and line until he bowled the first ball fuller and wider in the seventh over of the day. Steven Smith, who was diving at second slip. Swallowed the edge of a drive by Kohli.
Boland removed Ravindra Jadeja from the game in the same over by bowling the ideal delivery to a left-handed batter: an edged ball that angled in from behind the stumps, pitched on a length. Seaming against the angle, and took the edge through to the keeper.
Rahane, who was India’s greatest batter in the first innings, continued to battle. Adding 33 runs with KS Bharat for the sixth wicket, but he eventually played a careless drive away from the body into a Mitchell Starc length ball. It was the first wicket for the wasteful Starc. Whose participation in the opening Ashes Test may put in question if Josh Hazlewood is healthy.
Once Rahane was expelled. It was simply a matter of time. Before noon, Nathan Lyon ended the game by trapping Shardul Thakur lbw from close to the wicket. Umesh Yadav mishandled a short ball from Starc, and Lyon took out the final two.
As the only team to have won at least one of each trophy—five ODI World Cups. Two ODI Champions Trophies, one T20 World Cup, and now the World Test Championship—this was Australia’s eighth ICC triumph.