Young fast bowler Shamar Joseph, playing his first match for West Indies, took seven wickets for 68 runs in the second innings.
In the second Test match played at Gabba, Brisbane, West Indies defeated Australia by 8 runs and registered a historic victory. In this match, all the players from West Indies performed very well and played an important role in the victory of their team. Let us tell you, young fast bowler Shamar Joseph, playing his first match for West Indies, took seven wickets for 68 runs in the second innings.
Australian players had no luck in front of Shamar Joseph. Shamar Joseph took a total of 8 wickets in this match. Talking about batting, in the second innings for West Indies, Kirk McKenzie scored 41 runs with the help of 6 fours in 50 balls while Alick Athanaze contributed 35 runs.
Batting first in this match, West Indies scored 311 runs after losing all the wickets in their first innings. On behalf of the team, wicketkeeper batsman Joshua de Silva played an important inning of 79 runs. Not only this, Kavem Hodge had contributed 71 runs while Kevin Sinclair had played an inning of 50 runs.
For Australia, Usman Khawaja scored 75 runs in the first innings while Steve Smith made an important contribution of 91* runs in the second innings. However, Steve Smith failed to lead his team to victory.
Know the important statistics of the second Test between Australia and West Indies here:
1- For the first time, Australia has lost the day-night test.
3- Travis Head became the third Australian batsman to be out for zero in both the innings of the same match. Adam Gilchrist and Ryan Harris are already included in this list.
51- Nathan Lyon became the third bowler to take more than 50 wickets at Gabba. He has taken 51 wickets here so far.
2- Pat Cummins became the second captain against West Indies to score more than 50 runs at 9 or below. Earlier, Shaun Pollock of South Africa had achieved this feat in 2001.
353- Mitchell Starc completed 350 wickets in Test cricket and became the fifth Australian bowler to achieve this feat.
16069- Steve Smith has completed 16000 runs including all three formats.
383- Steve Smith became the fastest batsman to score 16,000 runs in international cricket by any Australian. He achieved this feat in 383 innings. Earlier this record was in the name of Panting who had achieved this feat in 386 innings.
3- Shamar Joseph became the third West Indies player to take 5 wickets in an innings of a day-night test match. Earlier in 2016, Devendra Bishoo had taken 8 wickets for 49 runs against Pakistan, while Jason Holder had taken 5 wickets for 41 runs against Sri Lanka in 2018.
1- West Indies became the first visiting team to win the day-night test in Australia.
54- Nathan Lyon took 54 wickets against West Indies.
27- West Indies won the test match in Australia after 27 years
4- Shamar Joseph became the fourth West Indies bowler to take 7 wickets in an innings in Australia. Earlier this feat was achieved by Curtly Ambrose in 1993, Andy Roberts in 1975 and Giri Gomez in 1952.