LONDON: The ultimate day of the ICC World Take a look at Championship closing noticed Australia take possession of the coveted Take a look at Mace after they bundled India out for 234, successful by 209 runs at The Oval right here on Sunday. Travis Head was declared the Participant of the Match within the WTC closing for his unimaginable 163 within the first innings of the sport. The morning session started on a sedate be aware with neither aspect gaining ascendancy within the first half hour of play. Whereas Australia bowled with accuracy, the in a single day pair of Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane batted with poise in situations that did little to problem them. Issues modified within the seventh over of the day, when the pinpoint accuracy of Scott Boland bore fruits for Australia. Boland, who had been distinctive by way of the morning, beat the sting of Kohli with the primary ball of the over and Australia went as much as the third umpire with a hopeful evaluation. The batter survived after it turned out that the ball had missed the bat by some margin.
Nonetheless, two balls later, Boland went barely full and was profitable in inducing a thick edge from the Delhi batter’s willow. The ball flew in the direction of second slip the place Steve Smith took an excellent diving catch. Off the fifth ball of the identical over, he obtained all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja to edge one behind the wicket, the place it was safely held by Alex Carey. And he narrowly missed out on a 3rd wicket in the identical over, when his additional bounce made the ball hit the shoulder of KS Bharat’s bat and simply flew over the slips.
These two huge successes within the very first hour ensured that Australia dictated the phrases of play from right here on. Whereas Rahane and Bharat stitched a 33-run stand, the bowling aspect didn’t let up steam. This introduced success within the 57th over when Rahane (46) performed an expansive drive towards Mitchell Starc and gave a nick behind the wicket. The very subsequent over, India’s first-innings saviour Shardul Thakur fell lbw to the off-spin of Nathan Lyon for a duck. Having snuck into India’s tail, a win for the dominant Australia bowling lineup appeared solely a perform of time, they usually achieved the identical within the 64th over of the fourth innings. Nathan Lyon (4-41) and Scott Boland (3-46) have been the decide of the bowlers within the second innings. With this win, Australia have grow to be the one aspect in cricketing historical past to have received the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup, the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy, the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup and now the ICC World Take a look at Championship. For India, it was a narrative of so shut but to date, because the Asian aspect misplaced their second consecutive WTC Ultimate.