Steve Smith returns to form, creates history with century

Australia’s legendary batsman Steve Smith, who was facing criticism and poor form, finally returned to form and scored a century against India. Smith completed his century in 185 balls in the third match of the Border-Gavaskar series at Gabba, Brisbane. In this way, for the first time after June 29, 2023, he has crossed the hundred mark in Tests.

Steve Smith left Williamson behind

This is his tenth century against India and 33rd overall. His innings included 12 fours. With his 33rd century in Test cricket, Smith overtook the record of most Test centuries held by New Zealand batsman Kane Williamson, who has 32 Test centuries.

Smith second in ‘Fab Four’

With this century, Smith has now become the player with the second highest number of Test centuries among the ‘Fab Four’. England’s Joe Root, New Zealand’s Kane Williamson and India’s Virat Kohli are also included in this list. Smith is only behind Root, who tops the list with 36 centuries. Williamson is now at third position with 32 centuries and Kohli is at the bottom with 30 centuries.

Smith equaled Cook

Steve Smith has now equaled the centuries of great and former England captain Alastair Cook. Apart from this, he is at 11th place in the list of players who have scored most Test centuries. India’s greatest batsman Sachin Tendulkar is at the top in this list. Smith, who took a lot of time at the start of the innings, once settled down and played shots at will to score a century.

Smith-Head got the team out of trouble

At one point in the match, Australia’s score was 75/3, but then Head and Smith brought the hosts out of trouble by adding more than 200 runs for the fourth wicket. The second day of the Gaba Test was in the name of host Australia. Steve Smith scored a century in Test cricket after 535 days. Whereas Travis Head, who was out for zero in the last three innings at Gabba, played an inning of 152 runs. At the time of stumps, Australia’s score was 405 runs for 7 wickets. Alex Carey returned unbeaten after scoring 45 runs and Mitchell Starc returned unbeaten after scoring 7 runs.