Steve Smith’s 36th Test Century Puts Australia in Command Against Sri Lanka

Steve Smith’s 36th Test Century: The second Test match between Sri Lanka and Australia is being played in Galle. In the match, Australia’s experienced batsman and the captain of the team in this series, Steve Smith, displayed excellent batting and scored a century.

Steve Smith’s 36th Test Century in Second Test Against Sri Lanka

Let us tell you that Steve Smith also scored 141 runs in the first Test match against Sri Lanka while batting brilliantly. Now in the first innings of the second Test, the experienced batsman has completed his century in 191 balls.

This is Smith’s 36th century in Tests, while as a captain he has scored 17 centuries so far. This is the 7th century of the best batsman in Asia.

STEVEN SMITH HAS 4 HUNDREDS IN THE LAST 5 TESTS…!!! 🥶

– The GOAT of Test cricket. 🐐pic.twitter.com/EelZg4iWiA

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) February 7, 2025

Steve Smith is in tremendous form at the moment and has scored four centuries in the last five Tests. Along with this, Smith has so far made a partnership of more than 100 runs for the fourth wicket with Alex Carey.

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Sri Lanka’s First Innings Performance

If we talk about the Sri Lankan team, they scored 257 runs in their first innings. For the team, experienced batsman Dinesh Chandimal played an innings of 74 runs, while wicketkeeper-batsman Kusal Mendis contributed 85* runs.

Ramesh Mendis scored 28 runs, while Dimuth Karunaratne, playing his last international Test match, returned to the pavilion after scoring 36 runs. For Australia, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Starc and Matthew Kuhnemann have taken 3-3 wickets.

Australia’s Strong Lead

Australia is currently in a very strong position and has maintained a lead against the hosts. For the team, Usman Khawaja scored 36 runs in this match, while Travis Head was dismissed after scoring 21 runs. Marnus Labuschagne once again failed to score big and was dismissed after scoring four runs.

Australia is leading 1-0 in the two-match Test series. Australia won the first match against Sri Lanka by an innings and 242 runs. It will be very important to see how Sri Lanka now bounces back in this second Test.