IND vs AUS: Mohammad Siraj completed a special century, did a great job even after the defeat in Sydney Test
Mohammed Siraj Completes 100 Test Wickets: The tour of Australia this time proved to be no less than a nightmare for the Indian team, in which Team India had to face defeat in three matches of the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 and was able to win only one. Could succeed. The biggest reason for this shameful performance of Team India is the very low level performance of the batsmen. Although bowling was definitely amazing, only Jasprit Bumrah was seen at the forefront. Apart from this, Mohammad Siraj, who was touring Australia for the second time in his Test career, could not perform as per expectations but despite this he definitely managed to achieve a big feat in the last match of the series played at Sydney Cricket Ground. When he made Usman Khawaja his victim, which was the 100th wicket of his Test career.
Siraj becomes the 10th Indian fast bowler to take 100 test wickets
If we look at the performance of Mohammed Siraj on this tour of Australia, he managed to take 20 wickets in 5 matches at an average of 20.15, in which once he also took 4 wickets in an innings. When Siraj showed the way to the pavilion to the Australian team’s opening batsman Usman Khawaja on the third day of the Sydney Test, he became the 10th fast bowler in the history of Indian Test cricket who managed to complete a century of wickets. Till now, the record of taking most wickets as a fast bowler in Test cricket from India is in the name of Kapil Dev who had managed to take 434 wickets. The names of Zaheer Khan, Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah are also included in this list.
Siraj has such a record in Test against Australia
In Test cricket, Mohammed Siraj played his debut match in Australia, whereas if we look at his Test record against the Kangaroos, Siraj has so far taken 39 wickets in 22 innings of 12 matches at an average of 32.51, in which he has taken only Once he managed to take 5 wickets in an innings. Siraj is now at number 7 in terms of taking most wickets in Tests against Australia as a fast bowler for India.
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