In the final of the World Test championship 2025-27, australia has set a target of 282 runs in front of South Africa. Mitchell Starc's innings of 58 runs in the second innings brought australia to a strong comeback in the match, due to which his team was able to score 207 runs in the second innings. This is not the first time that Starc has played a match-changing innings for his team in the final of the World Test Championship.
Talking about the final match of 2025, australia lost 7 wickets for a score of 73 in the second innings against South Africa. From here, Starc along with wicketkeeper batsman alex Carey shared a 61-run partnership. His magic was not over yet as he added 59 runs with josh Hazlewood for the 10th wicket.
The score of 207 made by australia in the second innings may look small, but the statistics of Lord's ground prove it to be a very big and difficult target. In fact, after the year 1984, no foreign team has been able to chase a target of 150, let alone 200 runs, at Lord's ground.
Starc has also made Team india cry
india and australia faced each other in the 2023 World Test championship final. australia scored 469 runs in the first innings, while Team india scored 296 runs in the first innings. The Kangaroo team had taken a huge lead of 173 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, australia lost 6 wickets for 167 runs.
Team india was trying to stop australia at the lowest score, but Mitchell Starc along with alex Carey had a partnership of 93 runs for the seventh wicket. Thanks to this partnership, australia had given Team india a huge target of 443 runs. Starc had played an innings of 41 runs at that time. As a result, india lost that match by 209 runs.jpg)
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