{"id":3698,"date":"2022-03-24T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=206663"},"modified":"2022-03-24T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T10:13:10","slug":"pak-vs-aus-steve-smith-surpasses-sangakkara-to-become-the-fastest-batsman-to-reach-8000-runs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-aus-steve-smith-surpasses-sangakkara-to-become-the-fastest-batsman-to-reach-8000-runs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs Aus:  Steve Smith surpasses Sangakkara to become the fastest batsman to reach 8000 runs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia\u2019s third match with Pakistan in Lahore on Thursday, Steve Smith surpassed Kumar Sangakkara\u2019s 12-year record as the fastest batsman to achieve 8,000 Test runs.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old right-hander crossed the threshold in his 151st innings (in 85 Tests) against Hasan Ali, surpassing Sangakkara\u2019s 152 innings (in 91 Tests).<\/p>\n<p>Smith, who has an entire Test batting average with over 60 and 27 centuries, will be looking to break even more records.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a home Test match against Pakistan in 2019, Smith then became fastest to 7,000 Test runs.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s newest achievement came amid a recent dry spell by his lofty standards.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the present match in Lahore, Smith has only one century in his 29 innings since the 2019 Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other Australians to pass 8,000 Test runs, Smith soared past Matthew Hayden (164 innings), Ricky Ponting (165), Michael Clarke (172), Allan Border (184) and Steve Waugh (194).<\/p>\n<p>Smith was successful in scoring a half-century in all three games of the three-match Test series. In the first Test in Rawalpindi, the former Australian captain hit 78 runs, followed by a 72-run effort in the second Test in Karachi. He put up a brilliant effort on the opening day of the last Test in Lahore, striking 59 runs off 169 deliveries, as he always does.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steven Smith surpasses Kumar Sangakkara to become the fastest player ever to 8\u20e30\u20e30\u20e30\u20e3 Test runs \ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvAUS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvAUS<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CPDKNxoJ9v\">https:\/\/t.co\/CPDKNxoJ9v<\/a> with a Third Test Pass for only $1.99 USD \ud83d\udcfa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WTC23?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WTC23<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oYsGsrxCjo\">https:\/\/t.co\/oYsGsrxCjo<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EyUuZedd5g\">pic.twitter.com\/EyUuZedd5g<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ICC (@ICC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ICC\/status\/1506927850921865218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smith, who has an entire Test batting average with over 60 and 27 centuries, will be looking to break even more records. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":26760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1386,349,1005],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-australia-cricket-team","tag-steve-smith","tag-test-series"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}