3rd Test, WI Vs AUS 2025 Highlights : Starc And Boland’s Powerful Bowling Shattered West Indies And Cleaned Test Series By 3-0 .

3RD TEST WEST INDIES Vs AUSTALIA , KINGSTON , JAMAICA :  Starc And Boland’s Powerful Bowling Shattered West Indies And Cleaned Test Series By 3-0 .

West Indies were dismissed for 27 on the third day at Sabina Park, the second-lowest total in the history of Test cricket, handing Australia an emphatic 176-run victory and a 3-0 whitewash of the series. What unfolded after lunch on Day 3 was barely believable even for the crazy standards of pink-ball Test cricket, as Starc took the fastest five-wicket haul (15 balls) and Boland claimed a hat-trick to destroy the West Indian batting in a searing burst of swing and seam bowling . Starc And Boland’s Powerful Bowling Shattered West Indies And Cleaned Test Series By 3-0 .

TOSS-

Australia won the toss and decided to bat.

PLAYING XI-

WEST INDIES-

Mikyle Louis, John Campbell, Kevlon Anderson, Brandon King, Roston Chase(c), Shai Hope(w), Justin Greaves, Jomel Warrican, Alzarri Joseph, Shamar Springer, Jayden Seales

AUSTRALIA-

Sam Konstas, Usman Khawaja, Cameron Green, Steven Smith, Travis Head, Beau Webster, Alex Carey(w), Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Scott Boland

DAY-1

Sam Konstas did little to enhance his prospects of sealing an opening berth before the Ashes, after he failed to survive a promising, watchful start. Seales was through the gate with the inside edge and an LBW decision arrived in the morning session which sent back the opener for 17. Usman Khawaja and Cameron Green took Australia to 50/1 at Lunch, with the visitors scoring at less than two an over on the first morning.

And early in the second session a sensational, one-handed diving catch to his left, behind the stumps by Shai Hope, saw Khawaja out for 23. Smith and Green then sought to smooth over the blight in Australia’s essay with a 61-run alliance that almost spanned the entirety of the second session. Three overs before stumps, however, Seales sent one in from wide of the crease to beat Green’s outside edge of the vertical bat and clip the top of off-stump.

Anderson Phillip ran from mid-off and then dived full length to pull off a stunning catch to send Australia six down. Alex Carey was the next to succumb to width and perish, playing his counter-punching game and succeeding only in inside-edging on to Hope on 21 from 20 balls. He then accounted for Mitchell Starc for a duck on the seamer’s 100th Test match, before dismissing Pat Cummins – the Aussie skipper throwing his bat at a full ball that ended up in the hands of Kevlon at long-on. Shamar ended the innings four balls later, when Josh Hazlewood cut a ball straight to deep point position.

While the bowlers had done a good job, West Indies had a big task on their hands of seeing out this tricky period with the bat at the end of the day. King and Kevlon took off the first four overs before Starc removed the latter from a full, inswinging delivery at 140 kmph. Chase then spent 14 balls for his three and King batted stubbornly in the captain’s company to send West Indies to stumps 16/1.

DAY-2

West Indies, who resumed play on 16 for 1 Sunday having bowled Australia out for 225 on the first day, were watchful in the opening half-hour before one that nipped back from Josh Hazlewood pinned Brandon King lbw. The batter reviewed the on-field umpire’s call and was adjudged out on umpire’s call.

Scott Boland also tested his front-foot for quite some time, overstepping three times, as the West Indies weathered the storm in the first session of the day. Roston Chase was particularly obdurate, but when Pat Cummins was brought on to bowl, he followed a wide delivery, edging to slips.

When West Indies were on 73 for 3 at Lunch, it did not appear that way, but the Australian fast men tore the hosts apart in the second session. Carey put down chances and Boland overstepped, but there was little relief for the West Indian batsmen. John Campbell was legbefore not offering a shot and Mikyle Louis and Shai Hope were bowled. Justin Greaves was run out and the lower order surrendered with little resistance as Australia took a huge lead.

The visitors, though, could not run away with that advantage. West Indies fought back with the ball immediately when Sam Konstas edged thickly to gully and was gone for a duck in the second over of the innings. Even as Cameron Green found his feet and struck a few boundaries, West Indies continued to nibble away from the other end.

Usman Khawaja was bowled for 14, but then Alzarri took off. He had knocked over Steve Smith and Beau Webster. Travis Head didn’t do much to contribute for the side as he was caught edging to the second slip.

In the evening, the 21st over saw an Alzarri twin strike, getting Alex Carey out for a three-ball duck after sending back Webster early on.
There were a couple of moments when Green ran himself into trouble, but he survived to go to stumps unbeaten on 42. He was joined in the middle by captain Pat Cummins and the pair played out the last nine overs of the day unscathed.

DAY-3

Things had appeared to going the other way earlier in the day. Australia had begun at 99 for 6 in their second innings with a lead of 181, and Cameron Green was still there on 42. But the morning was just a ball old when Shamar Joseph removed him with a beauty, one that nipped back to take off stump. Alzarri Joseph then mopped up the tail for 5 for 27, to give him nine wickets for the match with Shamar and nine wickets between them as Australia were dismissed for 121.

Pursuing 204 under tricky conditions throughout the match, West Indies never managed to get started. Starc, in his 100th Test, made it 1 for 0 with the first ball of the innings and started the slide. In the space of one over he was rid of John Campbell, Kevlon Anderson and Brandon King, the latter two to full length deliveries that swung in late and squeezed through the gap between bat and pad.

The hosts were already deep in trouble on 0 for 3 but Starc was not finished. In his third over, he rapped Mikyle Louis on the pad in front to bring up 400 Test wickets, and he was only the fourth Australian to do so, before two balls later he snared Shai Hope with another searing inswinger. It was the Starc there’s been with the pink ball in the past, that is, fast, generating movement late and giving absolutely nothing to the top-order batters.

Roston Chase was then jettisoned by Josh Hazlewood to make it 11 for 6. Only West-Indies bateman in double digits, Justin Greaves, hung around for a bit with Alzarri Joseph, and they took the innings to Tea. But in the after break, Boland was in the spotlight.

In a frenetic three-ball spell post Tea, Boland had Greaves edging one behind to the slips, trapping Shamar Joseph in front after a DRS referral and then sawed off Jomel Warrican with one that nipped in and hit the top of off stump. It was Boland’s maiden Test hat-trick and only the 10th achieved by an Australian in Test match history.

But for a single run from a misfield at gully, the tourists would have been all out for 26 to equal their all-time lowest Test score of 26 against New Zealand in 1955. Starc returned to remove Jayden Seales and took excellent figures of 6 for 9 in 7.3 overs. The entire West Indies innings lasted only 14.3 overs and a shade over an hour.

Brief Scores:

Australia 225 & 121 (Cameron Green 42, Alzarri Joseph 5-27) beat West Indies 143 & 27 (Mitchell Starc 6-9, Scott Boland 3-2) by 176 runs.