[WATCH]: Mitchell Starc joins elite club of 400 Test wickets during WI vs AUS 3rd Test in Jamaica

Australia came into the third Test of the three-match series at Sabina Park in Jamaica, having already sealed the series by an unbeatable lead of 0-2. But all eyes were on their veteran left-arm pacer, Mitchell Starc, who was celebrating his 100th red-ball fixture. And he celebrated it with his 400th wicket in the five-day format. 

Starc started the first over of the second innings of West Indies’ batting with 396 wickets and he got three wickets in the first six balls of the innings. On the very first ball, John Campbell’s feet didn’t move as he was tempted and carried his weight forward to get an outside edge into the hands of the wicket-keeper.

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Three balls later, Starc went with a beaming swinging delivery. Having faced out-swingers and straight deliveries on the previous three balls of the over, Kevlon Anderson decided to lift his bat and leave the ball. However, it came back sharp and hit him right on the foot as the shocking replay shows three reds to send the batter back in the hut.

Watch: Mitchell Starc joins 400 Test wicket club in 100th Test against West Indies in Jamaica

On the very next ball, Brandon King kept making the same mistakes as the first two batters. He went for another drive as another in-swinging delivery from the New South Wales pacer hit the pad of the batter and crashed into the middle and leg stump. The left-arm pacer, in the blink of an eye, reached 399 wickets.

𝐌𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐜 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝟒𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐬𝐭 💥

Starc reaches 400 wickets in just 19,062 balls, making him the second-fastest ever behind only Dale Steyn 🐐🔥#WIvAUS pic.twitter.com/geZsDEZghR

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However, the biggest moment came when he trapped Mikle Lewis with the same inswinger as the batter tried to block the ball with a minimum feet movement and left a big bat-pad gap for the ball to jag back and hit it. Starc joined an elite club of Australian bowlers- Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, and Nathan Lyon to celebrate 400 wickets in the longest format.

Two balls later, he trapped Shai Hope to celebrate his five-wicket haul and ended with final figures of 6/9 in 7.3 overs. The 35-year-old now has collected 402 wickets in 100 Tests at an average of just 27, shouldering 16 five-wicket hauls. Now his next mission will be the upcoming Ashes 2025/26 where his role will be as crucial as anybody with the new ball.