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Steve Smith scored 66 runs from 112 balls for Australia in the primary innings of the continuing WTC 2025 final against South Africa at Lord’s.
Steve Smith scored 66 runs from 112 balls on Wednesday. (Picture Credit: Screengrab)
Steve Smith was batting on 66 runs from 111 balls when he tried to play an attacking shot against Aiden Markram on the last ball of his first over of the match, but he didn’t connect properly, and the ball kissed the sting of his bat and went straight to Marco Jansen, who was stationed at the primary slip. The premier fast bowler tried to finish the catch on his left, however the ball bounced from his hands and moved to the appropriate side. He tried to finish the catch on the appropriate, however the ball popped out once more, but before it could fall on the bottom, Jansen accomplished the catch within the third attempt along with his left hand.
Smith, who thought the ball would run to the boundary line and add 4 more runs to his tally, was shocked by the dismissal.
The clip of Jansen’s catch to finish Smith’s knock at 66 was shared by Star Sports on X, and inside no time, the clip went viral on the web.
Before returning back to the pavilion, Smith faced 112 balls and hammered 10 fours. He added 79 runs for the fifth wicket with Beau Webster (batting on 49 at the top of the forty sixth over), after Australia lost 4 batters for 67 runs in the primary session.
During his stay on the crease, Smith broke multiple batting records. He first went past Allan Border and Viv Richards’ tally of 17 50-plus Test scores on English soil after which broke the record of scoring probably the most Test runs at Lord’s by a non-English batter.
Smith, who’s playing his twenty third Test match in England nowadays, has 18 50-plus scores to his name on English soil, which is probably the most by any non-English batter, and has 491 runs to his name in six Tests played at Lord’s.
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