Player of the Match
Player of the Match
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    31.3 Stunning catch from Shai ends Khawaja's hopes! Superb take that, diving full length to his left to grab a one-hander. Shamar finally strikes and ends Khawaja's longgg stay. He bowls it on a length just outside off, once again it straightens after pitching. Khawaja is forced to play at the initial line and only gets a thick nick. Hope was initially going to his right bit then dives to his left to grab it in the webbing 68/2
    16.1 Given lbw! He reviews. He was hit on the knee roll infront of middle. Full length angled in, his head falls as he plays for outswing, it beats the inside edge as he plays all around the front pad. It's smashing leg! Three reds. Australia lose a review. Konstas' off stump guard fooled him there. He lost all bearing on where he was in relation to the stumps. 28/1
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    48.6 bowled him! A peach! Angled into middle from wide of the crease, wobble seam, it nips past the edge and hit the top of off. Can't do much about that. Superb delivery from Seales 129/3
    55.6 Edged and taken this time! No getting away, Smithy! And Shamar waves his index finger in a 'I told you' celebration towards one of his team-mates. Length ball outside off again, Smith looks to flash it away from the body with hard hands. This time the edge travels straight to first slip where King hangs on 157/4
    64.6 Phillip gives West Indies a fillip!!! What a stunning catch to end Head's stay. My word. Length ball outside off, Head once again goes down on a knee to hit it over extra cover. There's more air time to this as Phillip, the sub, rushes to his right from mid-off, dives full-stretch and pouches it with both hands. Fabulous catch and Head drags himself off 189/6
    59.4 Nicked behind! Shamar gets another. This is relentless from the Guyanese fast bowler. Once again lands it on a length just outside off, Webster has to play, looks to hop and punch it from the crease but only gets a thick edge. Hope does the rest 161/5
    66.4 Another edge, another one for Greaves! Life under lights is good for West Indies. Floats it on a length outside off, asks Carey to go for the drive. He relents and gets an inside edge through to Hope. Australia have lost 4 for 41 after supper 198/7
    69.5 holes out to long-on! Slower ball does it. 118kph, length ball, Cummins tries to clear the rope again over long-on but the man is well placed and this was not well struck, easy catch for the man in the deep 216/9
    67.6 clean bowled! Loose shot and off stump gets knocked back. Full, shaping into off from around the wicket, he drives on the up with a huge gap between bat and pad and it crashes into the top of off 199/8
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    70.3 holes out to deep backward point! Good field placing. Back of a length, fourth stump, he backs away and slices a cut high to Alzarri Joseph who is well placed at deep backward point and he cruises around to take a good catch 225/10
    Extras
    16 (b 1, lb 7, nb 6, w 2)
    TOTAL
    225 all out (70.3 Overs, RR: 3.19)
    Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Sam Konstas, 16.1 ov), 2-68 (Usman Khawaja, 31.3 ov), 3-129 (Cameron Green, 48.6 ov), 4-157 (Steven Smith, 55.6 ov), 5-161 (Beau Webster, 59.4 ov), 6-189 (Travis Head, 64.6 ov), 7-198 (Alex Carey, 66.4 ov), 8-199 (Mitchell Starc, 67.6 ov), 9-216 (Pat Cummins, 69.5 ov), 10-225 (Josh Hazlewood, 70.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    JNT Seales1635933.6804
    S Joseph17.343341.8821
    AS Joseph712303.2801
    JP Greaves142563400
    JA Warrican1243302.7500
    RL Chase401303.2500
  • BATSMEN
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    16.2 Plumbbbbbb! Given and Hazlewood strikes with his first over of the day. But King opts to review. Looked really good that. On a good length from outside off, angling in on middle and leg. A hint of jag back as King pushes forward to defend but is beaten on the inside. Hits him high on the front pad and would have clipped leg as per ball-tracking. The one batter who looked comfortable is out early for West Indies 28/2
    4.2 bowled him off the inside edge! It was only a matter of time. Starc gets the inswinger on target again, Anderson drives at the wrong line as it veers in, gets a thick inside edge and it clips leg stump! 11/1
    26.4 edged to first slip! A snorter! Nicely held by Khawaja. The lbw threat caused Chase to misjudge a shorter ball outside off. This climbed from a length, Chase shaped to play and tried to withdraw the bat inside the line but he was too late. Gets a thick edge and it flats chest high to Khawaja who takes it nicely 58/3
    35.1 Campbell shoulders arms and it proves costly! He has a chat with Louis and reviews. Boland changes angle, comes around the wicket and angles the length ball towards off. It nips back in a touch after Campbell takes a forward stride and lifts his bat. That jag back is enough as ball-tracker returns three reds and another fluent batter's knock nipped in the bud. West Indies lose a batter and a review 82/4
    38.3 Knocked him over and Louis wouldn't want to face Sammy or watch the replay of this. Length ball around off, a hint of shape in, he stands leg side of the ball and looks to heave it over midwicket. Missed the ball completely and is bowled. Shocking shot at this stage of the Test, West Indies' slide continues 95/5
    46.3 bowled him! Only cost two. Boland does the job himself. Perfect length, wide of the crease and nipping in off the seam, Hope tries to drive ambitiously on the up and it nips through the gate and clips the top of the off bail. Boland is relentless 124/6
    48.3 Has he run himself out? Australia think they have him via a great Konstas throw from the deep! He's out! 132kph, back of a length wide of off, Greaves plays a superb square drive on the up, it stops short of the rope due to the slow outfield, they push for three, Konstas turns and fires to the bowler's end and the throw is right over the bails. Boland barely has to do anything to gather and take the bails and Greaves was just short! 135/8
    47.2 chipped to mid-off! Soft dismissal. Full, outside off, he drives with no real control or venom and just chips a catch to Smith at mid-off. He sliced across the line a touch maybe trying to loft down the ground. Not many catches in Test cricket come easier than that 127/7
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    52.1 clean bowled! Boland wraps it up. Shamar charges and tries to hit a length ball out of the ground, it hits the seam and skids on through the gate to crash into middle and leg 143/10
    49.6 Carey holds one! He was nervous after pouching it! Back of a length, wide of off, he flashes off the back foot and gets a thin edge and Carey takes it waist high but it wobbles a touch late. Hence Carey was quite concerned after it finally settled in his gloves 137/9
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    Extras
    10 (lb 6, nb 4)
    TOTAL
    143 all out (52.1 Overs, RR: 2.74)
    Fall of wickets: 1-11 (Kevlon Anderson, 4.2 ov), 2-28 (Brandon King, 16.2 ov), 3-58 (Roston Chase, 26.4 ov), 4-82 (John Campbell, 35.1 ov), 5-95 (Mikyle Louis, 38.3 ov), 6-124 (Shai Hope, 46.3 ov), 7-127 (Alzarri Joseph, 47.2 ov), 8-135 (Justin Greaves, 48.3 ov), 9-137 (Jomel Warrican, 49.6 ov), 10-143 (Shamar Joseph, 52.1 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    MA Starc1333212.4600
    JR Hazlewood1013223.200
    PJ Cummins1112422.1800
    SM Boland13.143432.5804
    BJ Webster51151300
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    5.5 Knocked him over! Shamar picks up his second. Spears this full and outside off, 136.9kph, Khawaja goes for the drive away from his body. There's a little inward movement and that is enough for the ball to take the inside edge and crash onto the stumps. Australia effectively 101 for 2 19/2
    1.5 Duck for Konstas, whose miserable Test series ends. Shamar bowls it on a length outside off, 133.1kph, he pushes at it. Only manages a thick outside edge that Chase at gully does not miss. Early strike for West Indies, just what the doctor ordered 0/1
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    29.1 Castled first ball of the day! What a start for West Indies, just what they would have wanted. A bit of misjudgement from Green costs him his half-century. Shamar starts with a length ball outside off, that seams in with the angle. Green leaves it on the line but it nips back in and hits the top of off. Some way to get to 50 Test wickets that for Shamar 99/7
    8.6 Maassssivvveeeeee! The spectators at Sabina Park have just come alive. Alzarri delivers the big wicket, just what he was brought on for. The bouncer barrage from Alzarri made Smith hang on the back foot. Smartly, Alzarri slipped one slightly fuller, 142.7kph. Smith found himself on the back foot and also pushing at it away from the body, leaving gap between bat and pad. The ball ricocheted off the inside edge onto his pad before rattling the stumps. The feet went nowhere. Fast bowling theatre on in Kingston, ladies and gents. Australia effectively 110 for 3 28/3
    16.4 great catch at second slip! Or is it? Head waits. The umpires sent it upstairs to check it carried to Anderson. Looks clean. Good length ball well wide of off, Head shuffles back and across and pokes way away from his body, the thick edge flies low to Anderson who pouched it very well at ankle height. No issues at all. Huge wicket 50/4
    20.3 bowled him! What a delivery! Unplayable! Wide of the crease, angled into a middle and off line with a scrambled seam, he lunges forward to defend, it nips and straightens a touch to beat the edge and crash into the top of off! Ball tracking showed that deviated significantly from the initial line. 69/5
    20.6 advances and edges to first slip! Crazy shot! He skipped out early to a good length ball on a fourth stump line and tried to loft over straight mid-on with a full swing of the bat, gets a thick edge that floats to first slip and is taken easily! 69/6
    32.1 Sharp bouncer and that is that for Cummins! Alzarri continues breathing fire and has his fourth. A rip-snorter on middle and leg, Cummins hops to keep it out but only fends it towards short leg, where debutant Anderson takes a simple catch 105/8
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    35.5 Pin-point yorker and it's too good for Boland! After a series of short balls, Shamar spears one full and straight on middle, he cannot dig it out. A fourth wicket for Shamar, too 116/9
    36.6 A second five-wicket haul in Test cricket for Alzarri Joseph. Such an inspired spell of fast bowling and this is a deserved haul, his best figures in Test cricket. He spears it full and straight on middle, 136.5kph, Hazlewood hangs back but tries to keep it out, in vain. Australia bowled out for 121, their lowest total against West Indies since 1995, inside 45 minutes on the third day 121/10
    Extras
    10 (lb 9, w 1)
    TOTAL
    121 all out (37 Overs, RR: 3.27)
    Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Sam Konstas, 1.5 ov), 2-19 (Usman Khawaja, 5.5 ov), 3-28 (Steven Smith, 8.6 ov), 4-50 (Travis Head, 16.4 ov), 5-69 (Beau Webster, 20.3 ov), 6-69 (Alex Carey, 20.6 ov), 7-99 (Cameron Green, 29.1 ov), 8-105 (Pat Cummins, 32.1 ov), 9-116 (Scott Boland, 35.5 ov), 10-121 (Josh Hazlewood, 36.6 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    JNT Seales82320400
    S Joseph1343442.6100
    AS Joseph1222752.2510
    JP Greaves401914.7500
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    0.1 caught behind first ball! 137kph, perfect length and line, angled into off, it nips away off the seam, Campbell has to defend on the front foot, gets a thin nick as it veers off the seam and it's a simple catch for Inglis 0/1
    4.1 Given lbw! 400 for Starc! No review. This is plumb. Full length, shaping back in sharply past the inside edge, it hit the back leg infront of middle and Louis walks. Starc holds the ball aloft to the rooms as he gets a standing ovation! Ball tracking had it smashing the middle of middle again 5/4
    0.5 plumb lbw! No shot offered and it would have hit middle. Anderson walks. No he doesn't. He reviews at Louis' urging. He knows this is out. Full, swinging back into middle, he was early to leave thinking it would veer across and it swerved back into the front shin. Ball tracking has it hitting the middle of middle. No idea why Mikyle Louis encouraged that review. That was ridiculous. Anderson knew the moment it hit him he was plumb 0/2
    0.6 bowled him! Three in the over! 143kph, swinging back, inside edge onto leg stump! Another beauty right on the money. Perfect length, shaping back into off, he has to play and drives hard at a length that's not full enough to drive, it swings back sharply, catches the inside edge and crashes into leg 0/3
    5.2 caught behind! Hazlewood gets involved. 134kph, good length, sixth stump, Chase tries to flay it on the up through cover and gets a thin edge through to Inglis 11/6
    4.3 given lbw! Five for Starc! Ridiculous! Hope reviews in hope only. 144kph, hooping back into the front pad like a missile! He was caught on the crease playing back. Beat the inside edge by a mile and smashed in the front pad. Ball tracking has it smashing the middle of leg! West Indies burn a second review. Starc is causing carnage 7/5
    13.1 Edged and taken! Boland is on the board. He goes slightly wide of the crease and angles the length ball in towards the fourth stump. Greaves looks to defend but is turned inside out and only gets a thick outside edge to second slip where Webster makes no mistake 26/7
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    13.2 Pinged on the pad! Australia like it and they send it upstairs. Boland comes around the wicket to the left-hander and bowls it on a length. It nips in after pitching and goes past the inside edge of the blade to hit Shamar on the back leg. Hitting the top of middle as per ball-tracking and Boland is on a hat-trick 26/8
    13.3 Bowled him! This is not the MCG but SCOTT BOLAND HAS GOT A HAT-TRICK! He has his right hand up and runs in celebration. Angles the length ball in from outside off, Warrican is beaten on the inside edge and it hits top of off. The jag back in undid Warrican there. What a bowling performance this! And West Indies are still level on the lowest total in Test cricket 26/9
    14.3 Castled! A 143.3kph rocket dismantles the stumps and Starc brings curtains to this pink-ball Test match. Let me write it in words - six wickets for nine runs for Starc in his 100th Test. Absolute domination. He goes full and straight, Seales looks to drive it straight but gets a thick inside edge onto his back leg and then onto the stumps. West Indies lose by 176 runs and go down 0-3 at home 27/10
    Extras
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    TOTAL
    27 all out (14.3 Overs, RR: 1.86)
    Fall of wickets: 1-0 (John Campbell, 0.1 ov), 2-0 (Kevlon Anderson, 0.5 ov), 3-0 (Brandon King, 0.6 ov), 4-5 (Mikyle Louis, 4.1 ov), 5-7 (Shai Hope, 4.3 ov), 6-11 (Roston Chase, 5.2 ov), 7-26 (Justin Greaves, 13.1 ov), 8-26 (Shamar Joseph, 13.2 ov), 9-26 (Jomel Warrican, 13.3 ov), 10-27 (Jayden Seales, 14.3 ov)
    BowlingOMRWEconWDNB
    MA Starc7.34961.200
    JR Hazlewood53101200
    SM Boland2123100

Match Details

Toss

Australia , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Player Of The Series

Series result

Australia won the 3-match series 3-0

Match number

Season

Hours of play (local time)

13.30 start, Dinner 15.30-16.10, Tea 18.10-18.30, Close 20.30

Match days

12,13,14 July 2025 - day/night match (5-day match)

Test debut

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Australia 12, West Indies 0

Close of Play

  • Sat, 12 Jul - day 1 - West Indies 1st innings 16/1 (BA King 8*, RL Chase 3*, 9 ov)
  • Sun, 13 Jul - day 2 - Australia 2nd innings 99/6 (C Green 42*, PJ Cummins 5*, 29 ov)
  • Mon, 14 Jul - day 3 - West Indies 2nd innings 27 (14.3 ov) - end of match

Match Notes

West Indies 4th innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0JD CampbellM Louis
2nd0M LouisKA Anderson
3rd0BA KingM Louis
4th5RL ChaseM Louis
5th2RL ChaseSD Hope
6th4RL ChaseJP Greaves
7th15JP GreavesAS Joseph
8th0AS JosephS Joseph
9th0JA WarricanAS Joseph
10th1AS JosephJNT Seales