{"id":5737,"date":"2023-06-11T23:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T18:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2023-06-11T23:06:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T18:06:35","slug":"boland-sparks-india-collapse-as-australia-win-wtc-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/sports\/boland-sparks-india-collapse-as-australia-win-wtc-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Boland sparks India collapse as Australia win WTC final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, June 11 :Scott Boland sparked a dramatic collapse as Australia hammered India by 209 runs to win the World Test Championship final at The Oval on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India, set a record 444 to win and resumed on 164-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But they collapsed to 234 all out, losing seven wickets for 70 runs inside 24 overs before lunch on the fifth day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boland did the initial damage with two wickets in an over, including the prize scalp of Virat Kohli for 49, on his way to figures of 3-46 in 16 overs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Off-spinner Nathan Lyon (4-41) then polished off the tail as Australia captured the one major men&#8217;s cricket title that had previously eluded them, with Pat Cummins&#8217;s side now heading into next week&#8217;s first Ashes Test against England in a buoyant mood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this result left India, defeated by New Zealand in the inaugural 2021 WTC final in Southampton, still searching for the first piece of global silverware in a decade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia was in charge of this final from early on with both player-of-the-match Travis Head (163) and star batsman Steve Smith (121) making hundreds in a first-innings total of 469 after India captain Rohit Sharma won the toss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India was never on terms and they were left needing to make cricket history, with a target of 444 way in excess of the highest score made by any side to win in the fourth innings in 146 years of Test history &#8212; the West Indies&#8217; 418-7 against Australia at St John&#8217;s in 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brief scores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia 1st Innings 469 (T Head 163, S Smith 121; Mohammed Siraj 4-108)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India 1st Innings 296 (A Rahane 89, S Thakur 51; P Cummins 3-83)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australia 2nd Innings 270-8 dec (A Carey 66 no; R Jadeja 3-58)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India 2nd Innings 234 (N Lyon 4-41, S Boland 3-46)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Result: Australia won by 209 runs<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, June 11 :Scott Boland sparked a dramatic collapse as Australia hammered India by 209 runs to win the World Test Championship final at The Oval on Sunday. India, set a record 444 to win and resumed on 164-3. But they collapsed to 234 all out, losing seven wickets for 70 runs inside 24 overs [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,84,396,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-india","category-latest","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}