Steve Smith Record: Steve Smith hit the 11th century against India, creating a rain of records in Melbourne

Steve Smith's explosive performance against India continues. After Gaba, he has also scored a century in the Melbourne Test. This is the 34th century of his career and the 11th century against India. With this century, Smith has set a record in Melbourne. He has become the batsman who has scored the most centuries in Tests against India. Smith has broken the record of Joe Root, who has scored 10 centuries in 55 Test innings against India. After these two, Gary Sobers, Viv Richards, and Ricky Ponting come next, who scored 8-8 centuries against Team India.

Smith achieved this feat.

Steve Smith played an innings of 140 runs in 197 balls in the Melbourne Test. He achieved many milestones with this inning. He now has a total of 5 centuries in Melbourne. He has become the sixth batsman to score the most runs on this ground. Smith has scored 1233 runs here at an average of 82. Not only this, he has become the batsman to score 34 centuries in the least number of innings.

Smith has now equaled Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Younis Khan, and Mahela Jayawardene in the list of batsmen who have scored the most centuries in Test cricket. On the other hand, Smith has left behind Alastair Cook and Kane Williamson in terms of scoring the most Test centuries. At the same time, Smith has come second in the list of the four best batsmen of the present time. Now he is only behind Joe Root. Root has scored 36 Test centuries so far. Williamson has 33 and Virat Kohli has 30 centuries.

Steve Smith now has a total of 10 centuries in the history of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. With this, he has also become the batsman scoring the most centuries in this series between India and Australia. He has broken the records of Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli. Both have scored 9 centuries each in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Not only this, Smith now has a total of 16 centuries in international cricket against India.