{"id":195459,"date":"2024-12-15T07:21:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/steve-smith-slams-33rd-test-century-breaks-rohit-sharmas-wtc-record-leaves-waugh-behind-in-all-time-list\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T07:21:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T07:21:08","slug":"steve-smith-slams-33rd-test-century-breaks-rohit-sharmas-wtc-record-leaves-waugh-behind-in-all-time-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/steve-smith-slams-33rd-test-century-breaks-rohit-sharmas-wtc-record-leaves-waugh-behind-in-all-time-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith slams 33rd Test century; breaks Rohit Sharma&#8217;s WTC record, leaves Waugh behind in all-time list"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/12\/steve-smith-1-1734244780.webp?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Steve Smith slams 33rd Test century; breaks Rohit Sharma&#8217;s WTC record, leaves Waugh behind in all-time list\" title=\"Steve Smith slams 33rd Test century; breaks Rohit Sharma&#8217;s WTC record, leaves Waugh behind in all-time list\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Steve Smith smashed his 33rd Test century as he equalled Alastair Cook on the list of batters with most hundreds in the format<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/steve-smith\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Smith<\/a> found his hands and form and somehow it is always against India as the former Australian captain notched up his 33rd Test hundred in the ongoing encounter at the Gabba in Brisbane. Smith, who has gone through a lean period in Tests in his last 20-odd innings apart from a 91 against the West Indies at this very venue, finally reached the three-figure mark and surpassed Steve Waugh&#8217;s tally of 32 Test hundreds for Australia.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Smith is now second on the list of the batters with the most centuries for Australia in Tests, only behind a certain Ricky Ponting (41). Smith also went past his fellow Fab Four member <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/kane-williamson\" rel=\"noopener\">Kane Williamson<\/a> and is only second now behind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/joe-root\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Root<\/a> (36). With 33 tons, Smith equalled former England captain Alastair Cook on the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p>This was also Smith&#8217;s 10th century in World Test Championship (WTC) history as he equalled Kane Williamson and broke Indian captain <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/rohit-sharma\" rel=\"noopener\">Rohit Sharma<\/a>&#8216;s record. This isn&#8217;t all as Smith also equalled Root&#8217;s record of most Test centuries by a batter in Test cricket against India (10) as broke his 18-month drought of a ton in the longest format of the game.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Most centuries in World Test Championship (WTC) history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joe Root (England) &#8211; 18 (in 116 innings)<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nMarnus Labuschagne (Australia) &#8211; 11 (86 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKane Williamson (New Zealand) &#8211; 10 (50 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSteve Smith (Australia) &#8211; 10 (82* innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRohit Sharma (India)- 9 (66 innings)    <\/p>\n<p><strong>Most centuries for Australia in Tests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ricky Ponting &#8211; 41 centuries (287 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSteve Smith &#8211; 33 centuries (199 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSteve Waugh &#8211; 32 centuries (260 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMatthew Hayden &#8211; 30 centuries (184 innings)<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nDonald Bradman &#8211; 29 centuries (80 innings)<\/p>\n<p>Smith stitched a magnificent 241-run partnership alongside Travis Head as the duo effectively batted India out of the game unless the visitors bat out of their skin to challenge Australia&#8217;s first-innings total. India began the second day on a wonderful note taking three wickets in the first session. However, all the hard work went up in smoke as Head and Smith bullied India into submission.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/steve-smith-slams-33rd-test-century-breaks-rohit-sharma-s-wtc-record-leaves-steve-waugh-behind-in-all-time-list-2024-12-15-966302\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Steve Smith smashed his 33rd Test century as he equalled Alastair Cook on the list of batters with most hundreds in the format Steve Smith found his hands and form and somehow it is always against India as the former Australian captain notched up his 33rd Test hundred in the ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/12\/steve-smith-1-1734244780.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[85722,14035,10356,14828,5872,3772,1541,345,1696,8338,8347,8346,8344,153304,153302,153303,848,107154,22374],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195461,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195459\/revisions\/195461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}