New Delhi:
Steven Smith Makes Big Record: When he got the captaincy again, the Kangaroo also returned to the bat of veteran Steve Smith. On the second day of the first match of the two -Test series being played against host Sri Lanka, Australia scored a huge score of 654 runs in Gaul, then Steve Smith also scored 141 runs after Usman Khwaja (Usman Khwaja’s Double Century) Along with playing, the 35th century of his career was scored, so at the same time, Smith did the feat, which only five batsmen could do in the history of about 138 years of Test history.
Smith becomes just sixth batsman
With a century in Gaul, Smith has now become just the only sixth batsman in Test history who has made an average of fifty or more runs in Test cricket against seven countries. Now Smith has an average of 141.50 in the Windies, 63.75 in Sri Lanka, 59.70 in Australia, 56.50 in Pakistan, 55.00 in England, 52.26 in New Zealand and 50.31 in India.
These veterans have also done the act
Prior to Smith, Pakistan’s Mohammad Yusuf, Younis Khan’s average is more than fifty in seven countries, while Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Kumar Sangakkara have also made this big achievement in their bag. How big this achievement is, you can understand from this that even legends like Sachin, Virat Kohli and Gavaskar have not been able to do this feat.
This quartet is not far behind!
At the same time, those who are called Fab Four. Root and Kane Williams are behind one country from this point. Apart from Root, Ken, there are four batsmen who have taken out the average of fifty in Test cricket in six countries. At the same time, Virat Kohli does not have an average of fifty in any country outside India.