Australia Fielders With Most Catches In Test Cricket: The Kangaroo team has created history by winning the World Test Championship (WTC) match between India and Australia at the Kennington Oval ground in London. On the 5th day of this match, Australian veteran player Steve Smith took an important catch of Virat Kohli in the slip. After which he has now reached the third place in terms of taking the most catches in Test cricket for Australia.
In the World Test Championship final match, when the Indian team came out to bat on the 5th day of the game, they had to score 280 more runs to win. Virat Kohli and Ajinkya Rahane started moving the score together. Meanwhile, on a ball over Scott Boland, Kohli tampered with a ball going outside the off-stump. Steve Smith took a brilliant catch diving in the air in the slips on his right.
Steve Smith also completed his 157 catches in Test cricket with this catch. With this, he has become the third player to take the most catches in this format of Australia. Now Ricky Ponting is ahead of him in this matter with 196 catches and Mark Waugh with 181 catches.
Smith played an important role with the bat in the final match
Steve Smith’s amazing batting was also seen in the WTC final match against India. In this match, Smith played an important innings of 121 runs in the first innings of the Australian team and shared an important 285-run partnership with Travis Head. On this basis, the Australian team managed to reach a score of 469 in their first innings. Smith’s bat saw 34 runs in the second innings.
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