Scott Boland sparked a dramatic collapse as Australia hammered India by 209 runs to win the World Test Championship remaining at The Oval on Sunday. India, set a document 444 to win, resumed on 164-3. But they collapsed to 234 all out, shedding seven wickets for 70 runs inside 24 overs earlier than lunch on the fifth day. Boland did the preliminary injury with two wickets in an over, together with the prize scalp of Virat Kohli, on his approach to figures of 3-46 in 16 overs. Off-spinner Nathan Lyon (4-41) then polished off the tail.

Australia captured the one main males’s cricket title that had beforehand eluded them, with Pat Cummins’s facet now heading into subsequent week’s first Ashes Test towards England in buoyant temper.

But this outcome left India, defeated by New Zealand within the inaugural 2021 WTC remaining in Southampton, nonetheless looking for the primary piece of worldwide silverware in a decade.

All cricket logic was towards India, with a goal of 444 approach in extra of the best rating made by any facet to win within the fourth innings in 146 years of Test historical past — the West Indies’ 418-7 towards Australia at St John’s in 2003.

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