New Delhi: The last match of the three-match Test series between Australia and South Africa is being played in Sydney. Here Steve Smith has registered a big record in his name.

He scored a century in Australia’s first innings on the second day of the match, beating legendary cricketer Don Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries. Steve Smith now has a total of 30 Test centuries to his name.

Steve Smith has now reached the joint third position with Matthew Hayden in terms of scoring the most Test centuries for Australia.

Ricky Ponting (41) is at number one and Steve Waugh (32) is at number two. By the way, Smith is jointly ranked 12th in terms of scoring the most centuries in overall Tests. Sachin Tendulkar is at number one here. Sachin has scored 51 centuries in his Test career.

Steve Smith could not achieve so many milestones in T20 and ODIs, but in Test cricket, he is constantly scoring runs. He has so far scored 8647 runs in 92 Test matches in 162 innings at an average of 60.89.

The special thing is that Smith comes second after Don Bradman in terms of batting average among the top-50 batsmen who have scored the most runs in Tests.

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New Delhi: Australia defeated the Sri Lankan team by 4 wickets in the fifth ODI. However, the Sri Lankan team won the series 3-2. Batting first, the Sri Lankan team was bowled out for just 160 runs in 43 overs. In reply to Sri Lankan team’s 160 runs, Australia scored 164 runs for the loss of 6 wickets to win the match.

Earlier, the Sri Lankan team won the toss and elected to bat first, but this decision was completely went against them.

Winning the toss and electing to bat, the Sri Lankan team got off to a poor start. Opener Pathum Nisanka (Pathum Nisanka) was dismissed for 2 and Gunathilaka on 8. At the same time, Dinesh Chandimal contributed 6 runs. While Kusal Mendis scored 26 runs. In fact, 8 batsmen of the Sri Lankan team returned to the pavilion for just 85 runs, but Chamika Karunaratne kept on leaving. He scored a brilliant 75 off 75 balls.

For Australia, apart from Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Kuhneman took 2 wickets each. In reply to Sri Lanka’s 160, the Australian team did not have a good start. Captain Aaron Finch was dismissed without scoring any runs, while David Warner contributed 10 runs and Jose Inglis 5 runs. In fact, the Kangaroo team had lost their 4 wickets for 50 runs, but Labuschagne and Alex Carey together took over the team with half-centuries for the fifth wicket.

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New Delhi: Australia star cricketer Glenn Maxwell is going to get married with his Indian-origin fiancé, Vini Raman in March 27.

The couple got engaged on February 21 last year.

Vini has Indian roots, but has been born and brought up in Australia.

The wedding card, which is printed in the Tamil language, has gone viral on social media.

Actress Kasturi Shankar shared wedding card and wrote on Twitter, “GlennMaxwell marrying Vini Raman. Going by the cute traditional Tamil muhurta patrikai, we’d bet there may likely be a TamBram ceremony… Will there be a white gown wedding too? Congratulations Glenn and Vini !”

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