Know who is Peter Handscomb, who became the ‘troubleshooter’ for Australia in Delhi Test

Peter Handscomb Career and Record: In the second Test match between India and Australia being played in Delhi, the Indian bowlers were once again seen amazing. Apart from the pair of Ashwin and Jadeja, Shami showed amazing bowling and sent half the Kangaroo team to the pavilion till the score of 167. From here, Australian batsman Peter Handscomb played an important role in taking the team’s score beyond 250 while handling one end. The Australian team’s first innings was reduced to a score of 263, in which Peter Handscomb played a brilliant unbeaten inning of 72 runs, facing 142 balls.

Giving a good start to the Australian team in this Test match, the opening pair of David Warner and Usman Khawaja shared a 50-run partnership. After this the team lost its first wicket in the form of Warner. At the same time, Ashwin gave a big blow to the Kangaroo team by taking the wickets of Labushen and Steve Smith in the same over.

Peter Handscomb, who came on the field after the wicket of Travis Head, first shared a 59-run partnership for the 5th wicket with Usman Khawaja. At the same time, Handscomb then came out as a troubleshooter for the team, sharing a 59-run partnership for the 7th wicket with captain Pat Cummins.

Talking about Peter Handscomb, he stepped into international cricket for the first time in the year 2016. Handscomb played his first Test match against South Africa at the Adelaide Oval ground. Peter Handscomb became the first player in the history of Test cricket in the last 97 years to score 50 or more runs in any one innings of the first 4 Test matches.

Peter Handscomb’s career has been like this so far

Peter Handscomb was born on 26 April 1991 in Melbourne. After this, he made his place in the Australian team playing with Victoria’s team in domestic cricket. If we look at Handscomb’s first-class record, he has scored a total of 8893 runs in 246 innings of 146 matches at an average of 38.83. During this, 19 centuries while 49 half-century innings have been seen with his bat.

In the year 2019, Peter Handscomb married his girlfriend Sarah Ray. So far, Peter has played 18 Tests, 22 ODIs and 2 T20 matches for the Australian team, in which he has 2 centuries in Tests and 1 century in ODIs.

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