AUS vs PAK: David Warner created history in his farewell series, broke the records of Rohit Sharma and Steve Waugh
David Warner Records: David Warner has created history in the Boxing Day Test being played between Australia and Pakistan. He has simultaneously broken the records of Rohit Sharma and Steve Waugh.
The second Test of the series between Australia and Pakistan is being played at Melbourne Cricket Ground. The host Australia team, which is leading 1-0 after winning the first match in the series, is batting first and has lost two wickets. David Warner has returned to the pavilion after scoring 38 runs on the first day of the match, but based on this short innings, he has created history in international cricket. He has become the second batsman to score the most runs for Australia in all formats of cricket. Now only Ricky Ponting is ahead of him.
Australian opener David Warner may have played only an inning of 38 runs, but he has created history in international cricket in his farewell series. He now has 18,502 runs to his name in all formats of international cricket. In this matter, he has left behind former Australian captain Steve Waugh's score of 18,496 runs. Apart from this, he has also left behind Rohit Sharma's 18239 runs.
Talking about the players who have scored the most runs in international cricket, Sachin Tendulkar is at the top, who scored 34,357 runs. After this, Kumar Sangakkara is at second place with 28016 runs, Ricky Ponting is at third place with 27483 runs and run machine Virat Kohli is at fourth place, who has scored 26532 runs in international cricket. David Warner will not be able to break any of these records now, because he has already announced his retirement after this series.
Talking about the match, the Pakistan team won the toss and invited Australia to bat first. But, Australia proved Pakistan's decision wrong. Australia got a good start and its first wicket fell in the form of David Warner at the score of 90. Warner was made his victim by Agha Salman on a personal score of 38.
Australia got the second blow in the form of Usman Khawaja with a score of 108. Khawaja became the victim of Hasan Ali after scoring 42 runs. The match was stopped after a few overs due to rain. At present, the third session of the first day is going on and Australia's score is 128 runs at the loss of two wickets. Marnus Labuschagne is playing on 12 runs and Steve Smith is playing on 17 runs.