Steve Smith breaks Sachin Tendulkar's record with 66-run knock in WTC final against South Africa
New Delhi: Steve Smith once again stepped up for Australia under pressure and played a classy knock to bail his team out of trouble in their first innings of the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 final against South Africa at the Lord’s Cricket Ground in London on Wednesday. Smith scored a fluent 66 off 112 balls, laced with 10 fours, to help Australia post a fighting total of 211 runs on the board after a sluggish start.
With his gritty half-century, Smith broke the legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s record for most fifty-plus scores in the knockout matches of major ICC tournaments. His 66-run knock against the Proteas in the WTC final on Wednesday was his seventh fifty-plus score in ICC knockout matches as he overtook Tendulkar, who scored six fifty-plus scores in knockout matches of ICC events in his career.
Tendulkar scored 682 runs in 15 matches for India in knockout matches of........
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