Australia vs West Indies
Australia vs West Indies 2nd Test: West Indies registered a historic win against Australia by 8 runs at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. West Indies have registered a Test win against Australia after the last 24 years. With this, the West Indies team leveled the two-Test series at 1-1. West Indies’ Shamar Joseph bowled amazingly in the second test match. The Australian batsmen could not stand before him and were out. Because of Joseph, the West Indies team was successful in winning the match. West Indies has become the first team to defeat the Australian team in a day-night test match on Australian soil. Has been a major reason for the defeat of the Australian team.
This mistake of Pat Cummins proved costly
In the second Test match against Australia, West Indies captain Shamar Joseph won the toss and decided to bat first. West Indies scored 311 runs in the first innings. After this, Australian captain Pat Cummins declared the first innings at 289 runs, while he had one wicket left. It is very rare in Test cricket that the opposing team has the lead and yet a team declares its innings. When Pat Cummins declared the innings. At that time the Australian team was trailing West Indies by 22 runs. Pat Cummins was playing at the crease after scoring 64 runs.
The lead of 22 runs proved to be no less than a boon for West Indies, because West Indies won the test match by only 8 runs. In this way, by declaring the first innings, Pat Cummins shot himself in the foot. After this, in the second innings the West Indies team scored 193 runs and they already had a lead of 22 runs. In such a situation, Australia got a target of 216 runs to win.
This player became the hero in the match
When Australia got the target of 216 runs to win. Then it seemed that the Australian team would win this match easily. But West Indies bowler Shamar Joseph had decided to do something else. He presented an example of killer bowling in the match. He took 7 wickets in his name in the match. He proved to be the biggest hero for the team. He received the ‘Player of the Match’ and Player of the Series awards for his excellent performance.
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