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Steve Smith Equals Don Bradman record: The first match of the 2 Test series between Australia and West Indies is being played in Perth. Kangaroo batsman Steve Smith scored a brilliant double century in this match. Due to his century innings, he equaled the record of great Australian batsman Sir Donald Bradman. Now he has scored 29 centuries in Test cricket for Australia. He achieved this feat in his 88th Test. Smith is jointly at number 14 in the list of players who have scored the most centuries in Test cricket. In Australia’s first innings, he remained unbeaten after scoring 200 runs.
Bradman’s record equaled
As soon as Steve Smith completed his century, he equaled the record of former Australian cricketer Sir Don Bradman. Bradman scored 29 centuries in 52 Test matches. While Smith is playing the 88th match of his Test career. Now Smith will be eyeing Matthew Hayden and Shivnaran Chanderpaul’s record of 30 centuries. By the way, Matthew Hayden 30, Steve Waugh 32 and Ricky Ponting have scored 41 Test centuries for Australia. If we look at the record of scoring the most centuries overall in Test cricket, then this record is in the name of former Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Sachin has scored 51 centuries in Test cricket.
Australia declared on 598/4
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Australia declared its first innings by scoring 598 runs for 4 wickets. Marnus Labushen scored the maximum 204 runs for the Kangaroo team. He hit 20 fours and a six during his innings. While Steve Smith remained unbeaten after scoring 200 runs. He played this innings in 311 balls with 17 fours. Apart from these two, Travis Head was dismissed after scoring 99 runs. At the same time, on the first day of the Test match, David Warner scored 5 and Usman Khawaja scored 65 runs.
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