LONDON (AP) — Australia bowled out India for 234 and won the World Test Championship final by 209 runs at the Oval on Sunday.
India's second-innings target was a world-record 444 and started the fifth and last morning with hope at 164-3 and linchpin Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane in the middle.
But in the seventh over of the day, Kohli edged fast bowler Scott Boland to a great catch at second slip by Steve Smith and was gone for 49. Boland got Ravindra Jadeja in the same over.
India chased the match since the first morning and the demise of Kohli confirmed it was a matter of when, not if, Australia would become a first-time world test champion.
Silence fell over the overwhelmingly pro-India crowd at the Oval along with an air of inevitability.
Rahane, on 20 overnight, reached 46 when he edged Starc behind and began a collapse of the last five India wickets in the 30 minutes before scheduled lunch.
Boland started Australia's celebrations with his two wickets, and Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon also took two each in the morning. Wicketkeeper Alex Carey had four catches in the innings.
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