Steve Smith: How is your record as captain in Tests?
Steve Smith Test Record As Captain: The Australian cricket team performed brilliantly against India at home under the captaincy of Pat Cummins and not only won the 5-match Test series 3-1, they also secured their place for the final of the World Test Championship 2023-25. Made sure. The Australian team has yet to play one more series in this cycle of WTC, which is of 2 Test matches on the tour of Sri Lanka, for which Cricket Australia announced the team on January 9 and Kangaroo is expected to captain the Test team for the last time in the year 2023. Steve Smith has got the responsibility of leading the team for this tour.
Cummins is not handling the captaincy due to injury
When Cricket Australia announced the team for the 2-match Test series against Sri Lanka, the name of Pat Cummins was not included in it, who is currently recovering from his ankle injury, due to which Steve Smith has again been included in the Kangaroo team in Test cricket. Got a chance to take over the captaincy. At one time, Smith was the best captain for Australia in which he was removed from this responsibility after the ball tampering incident. However, after returning from the ban, Smith got the opportunity to captain in four test matches but he did not captain in any one match on the tour. When the captain of the Kangaroo team remained unfit, but after a long time, Smith will once again take over the captaincy of the Australian team in the Test for the entire series.
Such is Smith’s record as captain in Tests.
If we look at Steve Smith’s record as a captain in Test cricket, he has captained Australia in 38 Tests so far, out of which the team has won 21 and lost 10, apart from this 7 The test match is a draw. If we look at the win record under Smith’s Test captaincy, it is 67.74. In comparison, if we look at Pat Cummins’s record as captain in Tests till now, he has captained in 33 Test matches and out of them, the Australian team has won 20 whereas lost only 7 and 6 matches were drawn. Have been. Under the captaincy of Cummins, the Australian team’s test win record has been 74.07.
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