The Australian team pose with the trophy on the fourth day after winning the second cricket Test match between Australia and the West Indies at the Adelaide Oval in Adelaide on December 11, 2022.
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Australia completed a series sweep with a lopsided 419-run victory Sunday in the day-night test at the Adelaide Oval, with pace bowlers Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland and Michael Neser snaring three wickets apiece as the West Indies were bundled out for 77 chasing an unlikely 497 to win.
West Indies resumed Day 4 at 38-4 with Devon Thomas and Jason Holder each on 8, still needing 459 for an unlikely win with six wickets in hand and six sessions remaining.
It was all over in the opening session, with the tourists losing six wickets for 39 runs. Australia won the first test in Perth by 164 runs and was even more convincing in Adelaide, where it remains unbeaten in day-night tests.
The Australians will play South Africa in a three-test series starting next Saturday at the Gabba in Brisbane.
The action was all one-sided on Sunday. The West Indies had only one scoring shot before Starc got an edge behind to end the 21-run fifth-wicket partnership by having Thomas (12) caught behind on the last ball of his fourth over.
The veteran left-arm paceman completed another maiden over next and struck again with the first ball of the following over to bowl former skipper Jason Holder (11) with a delivery that swung late and took out off stump as the West Indies slumped to 49-6.
Neser and wicketkeeper Alex Carey combined to take two wickets in an over as the West Indies fell to 76-8.
Carey stood up at the stumps and gloved a deflected, juggling catch to remove Roston Chase (13) on the first ball of the over and was up again to catch Joshua Da Silva’s (15) thin edge on the last ball of the over.
Nathan Lyon chimed in to bowl Alzarri Joseph for a second-ball duck and collect his 450th career test wicket, as three West Indies batters were dismissed within eight deliveries.
It was all over nine balls later when Neser and Carey combined to remove No. 11 Marquino Mindley. It was Carey’s sixth catch of the innings.
The Australians immediately after stand-in captain Steve Smith won the toss at Adelaide, with Travis Head (175) and Marnus Labuschagne (163) posting big hundreds to help the home team to 511-7 against an injury-depleted West Indies bowling attack before declaring on the second day.
Labuschagne, who scored a double-century and a century in Perth last week, was voted player of the series.
Without skipper Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood in the Australian bowling unit, Neser and Boland stepped up, combing with Lyon and Starc to restrict West Indies to 214 in reply. Only Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Anderson Phillip, who were both run out on Day 3, showed genuine composure against the Australian attack in the first innings.
Set a target of 497 after Australia declared its second innings a 199-6, the West Indies’ top order crumbled under lights as Boland took three wickets in an over to have the visitors reeling at 15-3 late Saturday and Starc removed Chanderpaul before stumps.
