Steve Smith
In the absence of Pat Cummins on a visit to Sri Lanka, Steve Smith, who was holding the responsibility of captaining the Australian team, completed 10,000 runs in his Test career, while Sunil Gavaskar and Younis Khan scored the most runs. I left behind. At the same time, in the first day of the second Test of the series, Steve Smith made another big achievement in which he has now become the highest catcher catcher in Australia as a fielder in Test cricket. Smith has worked to overtake veteran Australian player and former captain Ricky Ponting in this case.
Smith caught 197 catches in Tests so far
Steve Smith has now become the highest catch-catch-catcher for the Australian team in Test cricket. Smith caught a total of 2 catches in the first day of the second Test match against Sri Lanka being played at Gaul’s stadium in which he overtook Ricky Ponting with Prabhat Jayasuriya’s catch. Now Smith has 197 catches in 116 Tests. After this, at number two is the name of Ricky Ponting, who caught 196 catches in 168 Test matches. In the first match of this Test series, Smith was also able to play a century innings, after which everyone is going to be eyeing how he performs with the bat once again.
Sri Lanka showed poor batting performance
In the second Test match of the series being played at Gaul Stadium, the host Sri Lanka’s team decided to bat first after winning the toss, but at the end of the day’s play, they lost 9 wickets in their first innings and just 229 runs. He was able to manage only. In Sri Lanka’s first innings, Dinesh Chandimal scored 74 runs while Kusal Mendis was unbeaten after scoring 59 runs. Nathan Leon and Mitchell Starc have taken 3-3 wickets in bowling for Australia so far. Apart from this, Matthew Kuhnemann has taken 2 wickets while Travis Head has also taken one wicket.
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