West Indies record second-lowest total in Test history in Pink-Ball debut against Australia

Hosts West Indies were playing their first-ever pink-ball Test match, that too, at home. They were up against Australia, the team with most pink-ball matches played and won. But when they entered the game, the Caribbeans wouldn't have imagined the kind of shame they will be to themselves with their shabby performance in the game at the Kingston in Jamaica. They were bundled out for just 27, in what now stands as the second-lowest innings' total in Test match cricket.

Only one of their batters ended up in double digits, whereas six batters failed to contribute a single run with the bat. Of these, four departed for golden ducks, making it one of the most shambolic performances in red-ball internationals. This is now also the lowest total in the World Test Championship history, including all four cycles thus far.

This is also the lowest total ever in all Pink-Ball Tests, the previous unfortunate record for which was held by the Virat Kohli-led Indian team (36 all-out) in their Adelaide encounter against Tim Paine's Australia in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21.

The Roston Chase-led side also narrowly escaped recording the lowest-ever total, which is currently with New Zealand, when they were bundled out for just 26 runs against England during the Auckland encounter, way back in 1955. The last three spots in the top five list are all held by South Africa, who were recently crowned the World Test Champions after beating Australia in the finale at the Lord's.

Lowest Innings' Totals in Test cricket 

The main orchestrator for this drubbing for the West Indies was the fiery pacer Mitchell Starc. The experienced campaigner was playing his 100th Test match and made it absolutely memorable, by walking away with a sensational six-wicket haul. Starc also snatched away the record of scalping the fastest five-wicket haul in Test match history, snapping his fifth wicket off just the fifteenth ball he bowled. In his spell that read 7.3-4-9-6, the New South Wales speedster also went past 400 wickets in Test career, becoming the fourth Australian to do so.