Australia vs West Indies
The West Indies team registered a historic victory by winning the second Test match of the series being played against Australia by 8 wickets at the Gabba ground in Brisbane. In this match, Australia had got the target of 216 runs in the fourth innings of the match, after which, while chasing the target, the Kangaroo team kept losing wickets at regular intervals, although Steve Smith definitely managed one end but his unbeaten inning of 91 runs helped the team. Could not lead to victory. At the same time, the West Indies team has been successful in winning a Test match in Australia for the first time since 1997. Apart from this, West Indies has also become the first team to defeat Australia in a pink ball test match at home.
Shamar Joseph’s 7 wickets cost heavily on Steve Smith’s innings.
The Australian team had a target of 216 runs in the fourth innings to win this match. At the end of the third day’s play, the team had scored 60 runs at the loss of 2 wickets and on the fourth day they had to score 156 more runs to win. After this, Windies team’s fast bowler Shamar Joseph was amazing with the ball, who took a total of 7 wickets in the match. Joseph made Cameron Green, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey, Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood his victims. Shamar Joseph took 7 wickets while giving 68 runs in 11.5 overs bowling. In this test series, Shamar showed excellent bowling performance and took a total of 13 wickets. Steve Smith definitely scored 91 runs for Australia in this innings but no other batsman could even cross the 50-run mark.
Shamar Joseph got the title of Player of the Series
Shamar Joseph was also given the title of Player of the Series for his excellent performance with the ball in this Test series, after which he said that it was very wonderful for me, I want to give the credit for this to my fellow players and the management. There was a lot of support from the audience for which I also want to thank them. When I spoke to the doctor in the morning, I told him that I was not well and was in a lot of pain, but he had faith in me and asked me to come on the field. The tears in my eyes are from the joy of this victory.
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