15 balls of carnage: Starc's take on insane feat

Australia wrapped up the Frank Worrell series in style, dismissing the West Indies for just 27 in the second innings of the third Test in Kingston.

Yes, you read that correctly.

The total of 27 is the second lowest in Test cricket history, preserving New Zealand's unwanted record of 26.

It was the lowest Test total ever by the West Indies.

And it all happened in quite astonishing fashion.

Mitchell Starc tore through the West Indies top order to take career-best figures of 6/9 off 7.3 overs.

The 35-year-old left arm quick, celebrating his 100th Test, took his first five wickets in just 15 deliveries.

Chasing 204 for an unlikely victory up against the pink Dukes ball and the premier Aussie quicks, the West Indies faltered badly.

Starc, who took his 400th Test wicket in the process, removed John Campbell (0), Mikyle Louis (4), Kevlon Anderson (0), Brandon King (0), Shai Hope (2) and finished it off by bowling Jayden Seales (6).

Modest in what he had achieved, Starc said it would take him sometime before he was able to fully appreciate what had unfolded.

"It's been a fantastic tour for us with a lot of success on the way," he told SEN Cricket.

"Interesting wickets throughout. We weren’t sure what the pink Duke was going to do. Then we saw last night how damaging the pink ball can be under the lights.

"We went to work and got it pretty spot on.

"It was all happening. I was lucky to get a few on target and that’s about it.

"I’ve got a chance to reflect on it but its humbling to play long enough. When you play long enough hopefully you can tick a few things off. I’ve been able to bowl enough good balls. I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had."

Starc's heroics came before Scott Boland claimed a stunning hat-trick, dismissing top-scorer Justin Greaves (11), Shamar Joseph (0) and Jomel Warrican (0) in successive balls.

Boland, 36, became the 10th Aussie to take a Test hat-trick. He finished with 3/2 having bowled just 12 deliveries.

The Victorian has now taken 59 Test wickets at an average 17.33 - the best average by a player to bowl a minimum of 2000 balls since 1915.

Josh Hazlewood also chimed in by dismissing captain Roston Chase (0).

The 10 wickets lost by the Windies in 14.3 overs came after the Aussies lost four of their own earlier on a crazy third day.

SEN Cricket’s Adam White tried to make sense of it all.

“We’re still trying to get our head around what we’ve just seen,” he said on SEN Breakfast.

“We had a situation where we had Starc on a hat-trick, Starc getting this 400th wicket, Starc taking the fastest five-wicket haul in Test cricket history. He had 5/2 at one point, and we were on track to have the lowest Test score in the history of Test cricket.

“It all happened so fast, it was amazing.”

White said the pink ball used for the day/night Test made life very difficult for all batters.

“The pitch is fine, it’s actually the best pitch of the three we’ve had in the series.

“The issues is the pink Dukes ball. It’s doing so much, it’s borderline unplayable at times. We’ve seen the Australians struggle almost as much.

“The West Indies can’t bat, there are bunnies out there batting in the top six, which does make it a lot easier for the Australians.

“It is a talking point with how much the pink ball is doing. We saw some of the Australians last night who weren’t too keen to be out there facing Alzarri Joseph’s thunderbolts under lights.”

West Indian broadcaster and journalist Andrew Mason said on SEN Cricket: “One of the worst days in West Indies history. Gutless performance.”

The Australians claimed the Frank Worrell Trophy with a 3-0 series win as they now set their sights on the Ashes this summer.