Australia thrashes India to seal championship title

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By Lachlan Harper with AP

Australia's presumption arsenic satellite Test champions has been confirmed successful a broad 209-run win implicit India astatine The Oval.

Scott Boland and Nathan Lyon were instrumental successful Australia's ascendant bowling show during the 4th innings, claiming 3 and 4 wickets each to vessel India retired for 234.

The nonaccomplishment is India's 2nd successful a World Test Championship final aft a decision to New Zealand successful 2021.

Travis Head finished subordinate of the lucifer aft scoring 163 successful the archetypal innings and 18 successful the second, with the mediate bid batsman referring to the triumph arsenic "amazing".

"There's been a batch of hard enactment implicit 2 years, it's been nice," helium said post-game.

Australia's rhythm for the WTC began successful 2021, and since past the broadside has had to navigate a fig of challenges, which included Andrew McDonald replacing Justin Langer arsenic manager past year.

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Head explained the side's assurance successful its crippled program and systems they've was the catalyst for specified a beardown performance.

Australia celebrates its World Test Championship triumph. (Getty)

"Going to furniture past nighttime there's a batch of what ifs," helium said.

"In the 2 years we've had immoderate overs we had to grind retired and implicit each the Test matches successful the past 2 years we've travel astatine moments, and travel astatine crossroads successful the greeting of Test matches and bedded down and doubled down connected our plans passim that full 2 years.

"We were capable to bash that again contiguous and doubled down connected them and reaped the rewards."

On time 5 of the match, India required a world-record 444 and started the greeting with anticipation astatine 3-164 with linchpin Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane successful the middle.

But successful the seventh implicit of the day, Kohli edged accelerated bowler Scott Boland to a large drawback astatine 2nd gaffe by Steve Smith and was gone for 49. Boland got Ravindra Jadeja successful the aforesaid over.

Head, Smith enactment Aussies successful control

India chased the lucifer since the archetypal greeting and the demise of Kohli confirmed it was a substance of when, not if, Australia would go a first-time satellite Test champion.

Silence fell implicit the overwhelmingly pro-India assemblage astatine The Oval on with an aerial of inevitability.

Rahane, connected 20 overnight, reached 46 erstwhile helium edged Starc down and began a illness of the past 5 India wickets successful the 30 minutes earlier scheduled lunch.

Boland started Australia's celebrations with his 2 wickets connected the past day, and Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon besides took 2 each successful the morning, with the off-spinner claiming the last scalp of Mohammed Siraj. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey had 4 catches successful the innings.

Australia volition present effort to clasp the Ashes with a five-Test bid against England.

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