IND vs AUS Final WTC 2023 Steve Smith Century: The final match of the World Test Championship between India and Australia is being played in London. In this match, Steve Smith scored a century while batting brilliantly. Earlier, Travis Head had scored a century on the first day of the match. Head crossed the score of 150 runs on the second day. While Smith completed the hundred. Many records were broken by his innings. The pair of Head and Smith made the Indian bowlers sweat at the Oval.
Smith’s century innings included 17 fours. He has reached the third place in terms of scoring the most Test centuries for Australia. Smith has scored 31 Test centuries. Ricky Ponting is at number one in this matter. Ponting has scored 41 centuries. Steve Waugh is at number two with 32 centuries. Matthew Hayden is at number 4. He has scored 30 centuries. Sir Don Bradman is at number five with 29 centuries.
Significantly, after losing the toss, the Australian team came out to bat first and scored 327 runs till the end of the first day’s play. Head was unbeaten on 146 and Smith was unbeaten on 95. The second Smith of the match completed the century. At the same time, Head got out after scoring 163 runs. He faced 174 balls and hit 25 fours and a six. There was a 285-run partnership between Head and Smith. Both these batsmen faced 408 balls. An interesting fact is that the pair of Smith and Head played a record-breaking partnership, both of them have reached the fourth place in terms of playing the biggest partnership for Australia against India.
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