"27 All Out! No, this isn’t a video game score." But honestly, it looked like someone accidentally hit simulate match on Cricket 24 and forgot to connect West Indies’ controller.
Australia bowled them out like a 5-minute recipe — quick to make, and everyone loved the result. In front of their home crowd, on their own turf, they collapsed for 27 — the second-lowest total in Test history.
6 of those runs were extras. And if they’d scored just one run fewer, it would've tied the all-time lowest total ever. So yes, shoutout to extras for at least turning up.
West Indies probably thought: It’s just a 204-run chase, let’s survive the new ball and we’ve got this.
But Mitchell Starc had other plans.
In his 100th Test, Starc flipped the switch to celebration mode and ripped out the fastest 5-wicket haul in men’s Test history — just 15 balls. Oh, and he casually wrapped up the innings with 6 for 9. Light work. He also strolled into the 400-wicket club like it was some Sunday brunch invite.
Meanwhile, Scott Boland also joined the party and bagged a hat-trick, becoming just the 10th Australian to do so in Tests.
And because the West Indies wanted to break more records, 7 of their batters got out for a duck — the most ever in a single Test innings.
Some more jaw-dropping stats from this chaos:
- Only 1045 balls were bowled across all 4 innings — the shortest ever Test (by balls) with all innings completed since 1910.
- And not a single batter crossed 50 runs. Historic? Yes. For the worst reasons? Absolutely.
So, cricket fans — is it just us, or do you also feel like cricket in the Caribbean is dead? Or at the very least, momentarily zombified.
