Australia´s captain Steven Smith celebrates after scoring his ten thousandth run throughout the first day of the primary Check cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia on the Galle Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Galle on January 29, 2025. — AFP
GALLE: Australia’s Steve Smith joined a choose group of batter to achieve 10,000 Check runs on Wednesday throughout the first morning of the opening Check in opposition to Sri Lanka.
Smith began the match on 9,999 runs and on his first ball pushed for a single off Prabath Jayasuriya in Galle to be the fifteenth participant and fourth Australian to the milestone.
The stand-in skipper raised his bat to acknowledge the applause from the group.
“Fortunately hit that one in the gap so nice to get that one away,” the 35-year-old advised Australia’s 7Cricket.
“Nice to tick that off,” he added.
Smith joined fellow Australians Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh in an inventory led by India’s Sachin Tendulkar, who made 15,921 runs in his red-ball profession.
Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar was the primary to cross 10,000 runs in Check cricket when he achieved the feat in opposition to Pakistan in 1987 at Ahmedabad.
Smith is main Australia within the two-match Check sequence after common captain Pat Cummins opted out because of the start of his second little one.
He has a powerful common of greater than 55 throughout 114 prior Assessments, together with 34 centuries since his debut in 2010.
Smith began as a leg-spinner who batted at quantity eight however quickly rose to turn out to be the primary Check batter and captain of Australia.
Smith is recognised as a modern-day nice and a part of a well-known quartet of new-era batter together with India’s Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson of New Zealand and England’s Joe Root.
