After reaching the historic milestone of 10,000 races with a single, Steve Smith scored his nineteenth century and helped Australia reach 330 by 2 on day 1 of the first test against Sri Lanka in Galle, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Wednesday . Smith was hitting at 104 at Stumps with Usman Khawaja undefeated in 147, having anchored Australian entries, increasing 195 races for the third Wickt association. Upon arriving at number 4, Smith showed its registered brand precision and composure, forging a solid association with Usman Khawaja. His hundred, they achieved 179 balls (10 four and 1 six) in their 205 ° entries, they put it third in the list of faster trial centuries to 35, just following Ricky Ponting (195) and Sachin Tendulkar (200) in terms of entries taken to reach the milestone.
Smith is now only the seventh batter in registering 35 centuries, joining an elite list that includes Tenerkar (51), Jacques Kallis (45), Ponting (41), Kumar Sangakkara (38), Rahul Dravid (36) and Joe Root (36).
Smith surpassed people like Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Mahela Jayawardene and Young Khan in the list of batters with most of the hundreds. The four former indicators criticized 34 tons each in the format.
His achievement is further amplified by his record of the Captaincy, since this was his 16th Test one hundred as Captain of Australia, surpassing Allan Border and Steve Waugh, who had 15. Among the Australian captains, only Ponting (19) has obtained More centuries, while worldwide, Smith occupies the fourth place behind Graeme Smith (25), Virat Kohli (20) and Ponting.
Smith’s domain with the bat extends to his numbers as a leader, since he closed 4,000 tests as a captain, with an average of more than 68, only surpassed by the extraordinary 101 of Don Bradman among the skippers with at least 3,000 tests.
Early in the day, Smith became the 15th batter to overcome the 10,000 tests, joining an exclusive club of great Australians that includes Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting. It also became the fifth fastest in the milestone, just following Tenekar, Brian Lara, Sangakkara and Ponting, all of which reached the brand in 195 or 196 entries.
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