Australia became the second team to win the Test Championship.Image Credit source: PTI
New Delhi:Australia did what it is known for in the cricket world. Winning the title by unilaterally blowing the teams in the finals. against India at The Oval World Test Championship final Australia did the same in India and became the world champion of this format for the first time. Pat Cummins’ team defeated India by 209 runs on Sunday, 11 June, the last day of the final. Along with this, Australia did a wonderful thing which has never happened in the history of cricket.
With the victory at The Oval, Australia became only the second team to win the World Test Championship. Before that New Zealand had won this title. The Kiwi team won the title in 2021 by defeating India itself.
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First team to win all three formats
This victory of Australia brought a special record. Australia has become the first team to win the World Championship in all three formats of cricket. Till now, Australia has been becoming the champion only in ODI cricket and had also won its first T20 title about two years back. Now she has also become the world champion of Test.
Before this title, like India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and England, Australia was also champion in two formats. Team India missed the chance to achieve this feat twice in a row.
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Captured every ICC trophy
Not only this, the name of the Kangaroo team has also won all the ICC tournaments in men’s cricket and there have been a total of 9 titles, which is the maximum. Australia has won the ODI World Cup 5 times so far. He won these titles in 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015. Apart from this, he won the Champions Trophy in 2006 and 2009. At the same time, in 2021, he won the T20 World Cup for the first time and now he has also captured the Test Championship.
Cricket World Cup ✅ T20 World Cup ✅ Champions Trophy ✅ World Test Championship ✅
The all-conquering Australia have now won every ICC Men’s Trophy 🏆 pic.twitter.com/YyzL8NSvTF
— ICC (@ICC) June 11, 2023
Eyes on becoming world champion again
Now Australia will have the target of winning the ODI World Cup. The Australian team, which became champions in their home for the last time in 2015, had to face defeat at the hands of England in the semi-finals in 2019. In such a situation, he will have a chance to win this trophy again and reach the number of his titles to 10.
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