Mitchell Starc of Australia appears on the ball through the second day of the third Take a look at between West Indies and Australia at Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica, on July 13, 2025. — AFP
KINGSTON: Mitchell Starc made cricket historical past on Monday with a fiery spell that tore by the West Indies prime order in simply 15 balls — the quickest five-wicket haul ever seen in Take a look at matches.
His record-breaking efficiency helped Australia safe a crushing 176-run win within the third Take a look at in Kingston, sealing a 3-0 collection sweep.
Starc took 15 balls to wreck the West Indies prime order in an excellent show that left the house facet’s run chase in tatters, earlier than returning to take his sixth wicket after Scott Boland’s hat-trick.
West Indies had been bowled out for 27, the second-lowest whole in Take a look at historical past after New Zealand’s 26 towards England in 1955.
Starc shattered the earlier document for a five-for by 4 balls, surpassing Ernie Toshack (1947), Stuart Broad (2015), and Boland (2021), who wanted 19 deliveries to attain the feat.
The drama started on the primary supply of West Indies’ second innings, when Starc enticed John Campbell to nick an outswinger to wicketkeeper Josh Inglis.
Debutant Kevlon Anderson shouldered arms to a ball that jagged again and struck his pad 4 balls later, earlier than Brandon King edged on to his stumps because the hosts discovered themselves three wickets down with no runs on the board.
Starc then trapped Mikyle Louis lbw to turn out to be the fourth Australian to achieve 400 Take a look at wickets alongside Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, and Nathan Lyon.
Two balls later, he trapped Shai Hope lbw and he completed with figures of 6-9.
At tea, the West Indies stood at a precarious 22-6, needing 182 runs for victory and staring down the barrel of cricket’s final embarrassment, with 5 runs wanted to keep away from the lowest-ever whole.
And the drama was removed from over.
Boland dismissed Justin Greaves, Shamar Joseph, and Jomel Warrican to assert a hat-trick that left West Indies at 26-9, degree with New Zealand’s document.
In the long run, it was a slender escape for the hosts as they added one other run earlier than Starc returned to bowl Jayden Seales.
Earlier, Australia had been dismissed for 121, their lowest rating towards West Indies in 30 years, with Alzarri Joseph finishing career-best figures of 5-27 and Shamar Joseph 4-34.
