Australia's Caribbean cricket tour ends with a perfect 8-0 record in tests and T20s
Australia went into the last game on a 7-match winning streak following the 3-0 test series sweep and victories in the first four of the T20 internationals. It was Australia's first sweep of a five-game T20 series and only the second at the most elite level after India's in New Zealand in 2019-20.
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