Usman Khawaja Double Century: Australia defeated Team India at home and won the Border Gavaskar Trophy after 10 years. Australia won the series 3-1 against Team India under the leadership of Pat Cummins.
Usman Khawajaโs Magnificent Double Century
Australia has continued the same attack against Sri Lanka and has made a wonderful start to the new Test series in the new year. Australia has made a solid start in the first innings of the first Test being played in Galle against Sri Lanka. Australian captain Steven Smith scored a century. After that, Usman Khawaja scored the first double-century of his Test career.
Usman completed his double century on the second day of the match on January 30, scoring a run off the first ball of the 111th over of the innings. Usman scored 200 runs in 290 balls at a strike rate of 68.97. Usman hit 16 fours and 1 six in this innings.
This was the highest score in Usmanโs Test career. Usmanโs previous best score was 195. Usman had achieved this feat against South Africa in Sydney in January 2023
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Australia in a Strong Position
Usman made a significant partnership with Travis Head and Steven Smith in this double century. Usman and Head, the opening pair, made a partnership of 92 runs.
Then Usman made a partnership of 266 runs in 419 balls for the third wicket with captain Steven Smith. Steven Smith scored 141 runs. Steven completed the milestone of 10,000 runs in his Test career with this.
Meanwhile, on the strength of Stevenโs century and Usmanโs double century, Australia has reached 462 runs. So, after how many more runs will Australia declare its innings? Cricket fans will be paying attention to this.
SL vs AUS 1st Test Playing XI
Sri Lanka: Dhananjaya de Silva (captain), Dimuth Karunaratne, Oshada Fernando, Dinesh Chandimal, Angelo Mathews, Kamindu Mendis, Kusal Mendis (wicketkeeper), Prabhat Jayasuriya, Nishan Paris, Jeffrey Wandersey, and Asitha Fernando.
Australia: Steven Smith (captain), Usman Khawaja, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis, Beau Webster, Alex Carey (wicketkeeper), Mitchell Starc, Matthew Kuhneman, Nathan Lyon, and Todd Murphy.
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