Steven Smith took a diving catch at second slip to end Virat Kohli’s resistance•Jun 11, 2023• Getty Images
Boland was relentless with his length and line until he bowled the sucker ball fuller and wider in the seventh over of the day.
Kohli had a drive at it, and the edge was swallowed by a diving Steven Smith at second slip.
In the same over, Boland dismissed Ravindra Jadeja with the perfect ball to a left-hand batter: angling in from around the stumps, pitching on a length, seaming against the angle, and taking the edge through to the keeper.
Rahane, India’s best batter in the first innings, still kept up the fight, adding 33 for the sixth wicket with KS Bharat, but he finally played a loose drive away from the body to a length ball from Mitchell Starc.
It was the first wicket for the profligate Starc, whose place in the first Ashes Test might be up for debate if Josh Hazlewood is fit.
It was only a matter of time once Rahane was out. Shardul Thakur was trapped lbw by Nathan Lyon from around the wicket, Umesh Yadav gloved a short ball from Starc, and Lyon took out the last two, finishing the match before lunch.
Australia’s ninth ICC title made them the only team to have won at least one of each trophy: five ODI World Cups, two ODI Champions Trophies, one T20 World Cup, and now the World Test Championship. (ESPNcricinfo)
Steven Smith took a diving catch at second slip to end Virat Kohli’s resistance•Jun 11, 2023• Getty Images
