IND vs AUS, Steve Smith: The Australia team has reached India for the Border Gavaskar series to be played between India and Australia in February-March. With reaching India, the visiting team has also started practice. The Australia team is currently present in Bangalore. There the Kangaroo team started its practice. In this, the team’s star batsman Steve Smith topped the list.
Steve Smith sweats profusely
Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith has started sweating profusely for the Test series starting in February. The first match of the Test series will be played on February 9 at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium in Nagpur. Smith would like to maintain his excellent form from the first match itself. These days Smith is seen in excellent rhythm.
Recently, in the three-match Test series played between Australia and South Africa, Steve Smith appeared in excellent rhythm. He scored a total of 231 runs in three matches at an average of 57.75. Smith was the high run scorer in the series.
Even in 2017, Smith was made for India
Earlier Australia toured India in 2017. In that tour too, Smith was the high scorer of the series. He scored a total of 499 runs in 8 innings of 4 Test matches at an average of 71.29. His three centuries were included in this. At the same time, his high score was 178 * runs.
This is the schedule of test series
The first test match will be held in Nagpur from 9th February, Thursday to 13th February, Monday.
The second Test match will be held in Delhi from February 17, Friday to February 21, Tuesday.
The third Test match will be held in Dharamshala from March 1, Wednesday to March 5, Sunday.
The fourth Test match will be held in Ahmedabad from March 9, Thursday to March 13, Monday.
Steve Smith’s international career has been like this so far
Smith has played a total of 92 Tests, 139 ODIs and 63 T20 Internationals in his career so far. In Tests, he has scored 8647 runs at an average of 60.89. Apart from this, he has scored 4917 runs in ODIs at an average of 45.11. At the same time, in T20 International, he has scored a total of 1008 runs at an average of 25.20 and a strike rate of 125.21.
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