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Australia's Mitchell Starc celebrates the wicket of Sri Lanka's Dimuth Karunaratne with teammates during time 2 of the archetypal trial cricket lucifer betwixt Sri Lanka and Australia successful Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
Mitchell Starc connected Thursday notched up his 700th planetary wicket aft snapping up Dimuth Karunaratne successful the 2nd time of the 1st Test betwixt Australia and Sri Lanka successful Galle.
Starc, who turned 35 connected Thursday, present has 377 wickets successful the longest format, 244 successful the ODIs and 79 scalps successful T20Is.
This latest milestone puts him 4th successful the database of Australia’s highest wicket-takers down Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee.
A juggling drawback by McSweeney astatine gully 🔥
Starc gets Karunaratne and Australia person 2 aboriginal ones! #SLvAUS pic.twitter.com/FWH8w9IXeh
— 7Cricket (@7Cricket) January 30, 2025
In the match, Australia posted 654 runs with the assistance of Usman Khawaja’s treble period and centuries from Steve Smith and Josh Inglis.
In reply, Sri Lanka person already mislaid 3 wickets for 44 runs astatine the extremity of the 2nd day’s play with Oshada Fernando, Karunaratne and Angelo Mathews each backmost successful the hut with azygous digit scores.
On Day1, Smith etched his sanction successful the grounds books by becoming lone the 15th subordinate successful past – and the 4th Australian – to surpass 10,000 Test runs, joining the elite institution of Allan Border, Steve Waugh, and Ricky Ponting. Walking successful with 9,999 runs to his name, helium nudged a azygous disconnected Prabath Jayasuriya to scope the milestone.
“I was astatine the different extremity erstwhile Smith got retired successful Sydney and I was geared up to observe and it was devastating,” Khawaja had said connected Wednesday. “I conscionable truly gave a large hug and said you are an implicit fable and you get to 10,000 runs erstwhile and enjoy.”
Sri Lanka had a aureate accidental to region Smith early, but Jayasuriya spilled a instrumentality drawback – an mistake that proved costly. The Australian stand-in skipper made him pay, hammering an unbeaten 104, laced with 10 boundaries and a six, portion forging a mammoth 195-run unbroken basal with Khawaja for the 3rd wicket.
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A triumph successful this trial would beryllium capable for Australia to clasp the Warne–Murali Trophy.
(With bureau inputs)
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