Australian batsman Usman Khawaja scored a double century in the Galle Test against Sri Lanka. He scored 232 runs on 352 balls on Thursday, the second day of the first Test. Apart from Khawaja, Steve Smith scored 141 and Josh English scored 102 runs. On the basis of the innings of Khawaja, Smith and English, Australia declared the first innings at a score of 654/6. By the end of the day’s play, Sri Lanka has scored 44 runs for 3 wickets. Australia started playing with a score of 330/2 in the morning. Travis Head contributed 52 runs and Alex Carey contributed an unbeaten 46 runs from the team. Jeffrey Vandersay got two wickets and Prabath Jayasuriya got one wicket from Sri Lanka. Opening partnership of 92 runs between Head-Khawaja
Australia won the toss and decided to bat. The team scored 330/2 in the first innings on the first day. The opening pair of Travis Head and Usman Khawaja proved captain Pat Cummins’ decision right. Both shared a 92-run partnership. This partnership was broken by Prabath Jayasuriya. He got Travis Head caught by Chandimal. After that Marnus Labuschagne, who came to bat, was out after scoring 20 runs. He was caught by Jeffrey Vandersay at the hands of De Silva. Smith, the fourth Australian to score 10,000 runs, achieved the 10,000 run mark as soon as he scored 1 run on the first day of the match. Smith achieved this figure in 205 innings. Smith became the 15th batsman in the world to score 10,000 runs in Test cricket. He has become the fourth batsman from Australia to do so. Before him, former captains Ricky Ponting (13378 runs), Allan Border (11174 runs) and Steve Waugh (10927 runs) have achieved this achievement. ——————————– Read this sports news too… Fan broke security to meet Virat in Ranji match: even touched his feet on the ground Virat Kohli is making a comeback in Ranji Trophy after 12 years. He is playing for Delhi against Railways at Arun Jaitley Stadium. More than 13 thousand fans have come to Arun Jaitley Stadium on Thursday to watch Kohli’s match. Fans are cheering for Kohli by chanting RCB-RCB slogans. Read full news…
