Article: Cricket: West Indies secure record-breaking victory Australia 240 & 417 West Indies 240 & 418-7 West Indies win by 3 wickets

THE West Indies completed what, in every other regard, was Test cricket's most remarkable victory yesterday, reaching a winning total never before achieved in a fourth innings to defeat Australia by three wickets in the fourth and final Test.

Trounced in the previous three Tests by the game's most powerful and intimidating opponents and with a team including six players under 24, they overhauled the 418 they were set for an unlikely win that prevented the ignominy of their first whitewash in a home series.

Don Bradman's Australia, with 404 for 3 against England at Headingley in 1948, and India, with 406 for 4 against the West Indies in Port-of- Spain in 1976, are the only other teams to ...

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