What shameful record has Smith made? This happened only for the second time in the 148 year history of Test.
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IND vs Aus: Australia bowled out India for 157 runs in the second innings in the first session of the third day of the Sydney Test, giving the host team a target of 162 runs. Rishabh Pant scored the highest score of 61 runs for India. For Australia, Scott Boland took 6 wickets for 45 runs while captain Pat Cummins took three wickets for 44 runs. Australia’s opening pair, while chasing the target, started with a bang. The opening pair of Sam Constas and Usman Khawaja scored 13 runs in the very first over. Not only this, before the first wicket fell, Australia achieved a great feat of scoring 39 runs in 4 overs.
Prasidh Krishna tackled the top order
The first blow to Australia came in the form of Sam Constas. Constas became the victim of Prasidh Krishna after scoring 22 runs. After this, Marnus Labuschagne, who came to the crease, also started walking on the ball of Prasidh Krishna. Labuschagne could contribute only 2 runs. The Australian team had suffered two major setbacks at 56 runs in 8 overs. After this Steve Smith came to the crease. Australian fans expected a big innings from Smith but once again he disappointed and missed out on creating a big history in Test cricket. He scored only 4 runs and thus he remained just one run away from scoring 10 thousand runs in Test cricket.
Unique record made in test cricket
Before the Sydney Test, Smith needed 38 runs to complete 10,000 runs in Test cricket. Smith was expected to reach the 10,000 mark in the first innings of the Sydney Test but he was out after scoring 33 runs. In this way, his dream of completing 10 thousand runs remained just 5 runs away. In the second innings of the Sydney Test, everyone felt that Smith would make his place in the 10-thousand club but Prasidh Krishna did not let this happen and he went for only 4 runs. In this way, this powerful Australian batsman became the second batsman in the world to be out on 9999 runs in his Test career. Before this, this had happened only once in the 148-year history of Test cricket. Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka was run out against South Africa in 2011 on the score of 9999 runs.
Batsmen who were out on 9999 runs in test career
- Mahela Jayawardene (run out) v South Africa, 2011 SuperSport Park
- Steve Smith (catch) vs India, 2025 Sydney Cricket Ground
