Smith hit 10k test runs (Image Credit:- X)

Australia star batter Steve Smith joins the elite club of 10,000 runs in test cricket. He became the 15^th player in the world and fourth Australian to reach this milestone in test cricket history against Srilanka in Galle.

Steve Smith who arrived in Srilanka for the two match test series with 9999 runs in his name. He took quick single off the very first delivery he faced in the match to reach another glorious feet in his outstanding career.

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He becomes the second fastest to reach this milestone. Smith so far played 115 tests for Australia with an average of 56.44. He hit 35 hundreds and 4 double hundreds so far.

It took 20 tests for Smith to push his batting average above 40 but in next 50 tests he hit 22 centuries with an impressive average of 74.36.

Galle test is the 78th consecutive test where Smith’s average is above 55. This is a record for most consecutive tests any batter has played while averaging over 55.

At the end of first days play of first test of the series Steve Smith remains unbeaten on 104 along with the opener Usman Khawaja who is batting on 147. Australia were 330/2.

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Players with 10000 test runs or more

Rank	Player	Country	Runs	Innings Taken
1	Sachin Tendulkar	India	15,921	329
2	Ricky Ponting	Australia	13,378	287
3	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	13,289	280
4	Rahul Dravid	India	13,288	286
5	Joe Root	England	12,972*	278
6	Alaistar Cook	England	12,471	291
7	Kumar Sangakkara	Srilanka	12,400	233
8	Brain Lara	West Indies	11,953	232
9	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	11,867	280
10	Mahela Jayawardene	Srilanka	11,814	252
11	Alan Border	Australia	11,174	265
12	Steve Waugh	Australia	10,927	260
13	Sunil Gavaskar	India	10,122	214
14	Steve Smith	Australia	10,101*	205
15	Younis Khan	Pakistan	10,099	213