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Article: Cricket: West Indies secure record-breaking victory Australia 240 & 417 West Indies 240 & 418-7 West Indies win by 3 wickets
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 14, 2003
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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 ...