Australian batter Steve Smith has now grow to be the participant with the second-highest variety of centuries for his nation. He completed this feat in his aspect’s Ashes second Test in opposition to England at Lord’s. Smith continued together with his wealthy run of kind in English territory, scoring his thirty second Test hundred. The former Australia skipper produced a pleasant 110 runs off 184 balls, studded with 15 boundaries.

Ponting holds the file for probably the most Test centuries for Australia, with 41 tons. Steve Waugh additionally has 32 tons like Smith. Notably, Smith is the quickest participant to get to the 32-century mark, doing so within the 174th innings of his 99th Test, as per cricket.com.au. This was Smith’s eighth Test hundred in England, the second-most by any international participant within the nation, behind solely Sir Donald Bradman’s eleven tons. Also, now Smith has 12 tons within the Ashes. Only Bradman, with 19 tons, has extra triple determine mark within the Ashes, in response to a ESPN Cricinfo report.

Smith has additionally grow to be the fourth Australian participant to etch his title on the honour’s board on the Home of Cricket, Lord’s. He joined an elite firm that includes the likes of Warren Bardsley (1912, 1926), Sir Don Bradman (1930, 1938) and Bill Brown (1934, 1938) to attain a number of Test lots of at Lord’s.

Smith now has 12 Ashes lots of and now he’s solely second to the legendary Don Bradman, who has scored 19 centuries within the collection.

Smith has a variety of historical past on the Lord’s, a floor the place he made his Test debut again in 2010. He smashed a mammoth 215 on the venue through the 2015 Ashes. It was right here that England pacer Jofra Archer concussed him in 2019, which is without doubt one of the most brutal moments of this rivalry’s historical past.

It additional provides to Smith’s distinctive historical past at Lord’s, a floor the place he made his Test debut in opposition to Pakistan in 2010, the place he blazed a mammoth 215 through the 2015 Ashes and the place Jofra Archer concussed him in 2019 in one of many Ashes’ most brutally memorable moments.

After a uncommon double failure at Birmingham, maybe Smith gave England a hope that they may keep away from the carnage he unleashed again within the 2019 Ashes, through which he smashed 774 runs in 4 Test matches. But his attacking, however but cautious strokeplay helped him get one other hundred.

In his knock, he additionally surpassed the whole of 9,000 Test runs, with solely Kumar Sangakkara being sooner to succeed in the milestone in 172 innings.

Coming to the match, England’s first innings is in progress.

In their first innings, Australia was bundled out for 416 runs. Smith (110), Travis Head (77 in 73 balls) and David Warner (66 in 88 balls) performed standout innings for Australia.

Josh Tongue (3/98) and Ollie Robinson (3/100) took three-fers. Joe Root took two wickets whereas the veteran tempo duo of James Anderson and Stuart Broad managed a wicket every.