Steve Smith
Steve Smith Record in Sri Lanka: Steve Smith is currently in Sri Lanka and is batting amazing there. In the absence of Pat Cummins, Australia’s captaincy Steve Smith is handling the captaincy for this series. Although Smith is the best batsman in the world, but it seems that he has become even more aggressive as soon as he gets the responsibility of captaincy again. In the first innings of the second Test against Sri Lanka, he has equaled former captain Ricky Ponting.
Smith reached equal to Ricky Ponting in this record
Steve Smith’s innings of more than 50 runs becomes even more important because it has come in Asia. Australia and England batsmen are believed to have not scored much runs on Asia’s turning pitch. This is his 15th innings in Asia in Test cricket and he has done this work in 42 innings. Earlier, there are only Ricky Ponting’s Australian batsman who has been able to play more than 50 runs 15 times. He touched this place after 48 innings. There are also allen borders in this list, which have done this 14 times. That is, now Steve Smith has left the Alan Border behind and equaled Ricky Ponting.
Steve Smith only behind Jack Kallis
Smith’s 206th innings in Test cricket. Only Jack Kallis of South Africa is the batsman who has scored 50 plus the most by playing such Test innings. By the time Jack Kallis played 206 Test innings, he had a score of 50 plus 78 times, while Steve Smith has done this 77 times. The special thing is that here too Smith has equaled Ricky Ponting. Ponting also scored more than 50 runs after 206 innings. Steve Smith scored 141 runs in the first match of the same series and is now unbeaten after completing the half -century. By winning the first match of the series, the Australian team has taken the lead and now it is their effort to clean the Sri Lanka in the two -match series. At this time, the Australian team is seen on the driving seat.
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