After the injury of Australian caption Michal Clark, Steven Smith was given the responsibility to lead the side and the team ended up with the highest innings by an Australian captain on debut since
Warwick Armstrong’s 158 in 1920.
At 25 years he also became the youngest Australian
captain to score a hundred on captaincy debut.
We see very rare like Twin hundreds for Kohli at Adelaide and a hundred for Smith at
Brisbane of two players score hundreds on captaincy debut
in the same series.
Skipper Steve Smith is delighted that Australia were able to push
their first innings' total past 500 runs and take a lead over India in
the second Test.
The hosts replied to India's 408-run total with 506 in their first
innings, the captain himself scoring a hundred, and Mitchell Johnson a
quick-fire 88 runs.
Mitchell Starc (52 off 59 balls) posted his fourth fifty in Tests his second against India. Starc's highest knock in Tests is his 99, against India at Mohali
in March 2013.
Australia (505) posted their first total of 500 or more against
India at Brisbane, bettering the 382 for eight wickets declared in 1947-48.
Smith's sixth Test century (133 off 191 balls) is his second
against India. He recorded a career-best 162 not out in the Adelaide Test.
Starc and Hazlewood put on 51 -- Australia's highest for the 10th
wicket vs India at Brisbane, outstripping the 50 between Alan Hurst and Jeff
Thomson in December 1977.
The 148-run stand between
Mitchell Johnson and Smith is Australia's highest seventh-wicket partnership at
Brisbane.
Johnson's second
half-century against India is his 10th in Tests. His magnificent 88 off 93
balls is his highest score against India.
The innings is Johnson’s
fourth highest in Tests his career-best being 123 not out vs South Africa at
Cape Town in 2008-09.
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