Australia record their lowest ever Test total against the West Indies in 30 years

Following their humiliating surrender against the Proteas in the World Test Championship Final 2025, Australia have stooped to another low in Test cricket. The all-time world champions have made a far from ideal start in their ongoing WTC 2025-27 cycle. Their Test tour to the Caribbean has not unfolded the way they would have ideally hoped on day one. 

For the first time in 30 years, Australia have registered their lowest-ever first innings Test score against the West Indies. The Aussies were skittled for a meager 180. Travis Head was the sole batter to register a half century (59 off 78) while Khawaja (47 off 128), Webster (11 off 24), and skipper Pat Cummins (28 off 18) were the other three batters to make it into double figures. 

A team that has only managed two test wins against them in the past two decades, this unwanted record will go down as one of the worst records in their Test history and is bound to ruffle some feathers. On a lively Barbados pitch, the WI quicks featuring Shamar Joseph and Jayden Seales made life very difficult for the Aussies batters. Shamar wreaked havoc early doors to send Konstas, Green, and Khawaja packing. Shamar finished with four wickets to his name, but Seales outperformed him by picking up a five-fer as Australia folded prematurely inside the third session.  

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Australia record their lowest-ever first innings total against the Windies in three decades

AUSTRALIA REGISTERED THEIR LOWEST EVER 1ST INNINGS TOTAL VS WEST INDIES IN THE LAST 30 YEARS. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/xZXtzRXqAR

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) June 25, 2025

Prior to enduring a horror show with the bat on the opening day of the Test, Australia's previous record of the lowest first innings test score was 216 from 1995. But the 30-year-long record has now been eclipsed after the West Indies managed to floor them for a meager 180 yesterday. 

It is worth mentioning that the Australian team has previously been bundled out below the 200-run mark on as many as 11 occasions since 1951. Their lowest-ever first innings score against West Indies came during the 1951 home Test series in Adelaide when the Aussies were skittled for just 82. Quite understandably, Australia had no chance of making a comeback on the back of such a paltry score and lost the game by six wickets. 

However, speaking of the current state of the Barbados Test, Australia still have an outside chance of securing a win as they managed to launch late strikes on the WI batters yesterday to have them reeling at 57-4 by the call of stumps.