Australia’s left-handed aggressive batsman Travis Head has changed the course of matches many times with his batting. He did something similar in the first innings of the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. In this innings, Travis Head played a stormy innings of 140 runs in 141 balls in challenging conditions. Due to Head’s counter attack, Australia has gained a lead of more than 150 runs over India in the day-night test match, which can also prove to be decisive for the outcome of the match. Travis Head hit 17 fours and 4 sixes in his innings. Due to this, Australia has scored 332 runs at the loss of 8 wickets till dinner break on the second day.
scored the fastest century
Australia currently has a huge lead of 152 runs over India’s first innings score of 180 runs. The role of head is very important in this. Head has also scored the fastest century so far in day-night test matches. He scored a century on 111 balls. Earlier, Head had scored a century in 112 balls against England in Hobart in the year 2022. Travis Head has so far scored three centuries in day-night test matches. All these three centuries have been scored with a very fast strike rate. Only his compatriot Marnus Labuschagne has scored more day-night Test centuries than Head. The right-handed middle order batsman has scored centuries four times in the pink ball Test.
Such is the protest against India
At the same time, if we talk about Head’s record against India, his bat has worked well against Indian bowling. In the last six Test innings against India, Head has scored 90(163), 163(174), 18(27), 11(13), 89(101) and the latest score is 140(141). Talking about his career, Head has so far scored 8 centuries and 17 half-centuries in 51 test matches. Batting with an average of 43.20, he has a fast strike rate of 66.17.
Travis Head shines in ICC Test Championship
Apart from this, on the basis of his inning of 140 runs, Travis Head has left behind Indian captain Rohit Sharma, his compatriot Usman Khawaja, and England batsman Jack Crawley in the list of batsmen who have scored the most runs in the ICC World Test Championship. In the ICC World Test Championship, Travis Head has now scored 2750 runs in 70 innings of 43 matches at an average of 41.66. During this period he has scored 7 centuries and 12 half-centuries. Whereas Rohit Sharma has 2688 runs in his name in 65 innings of 38 matches. Usman Khawaja has scored 2711 runs in 63 innings of 34 matches. Whereas Crawley has scored 2725 runs in 84 innings of 46 matches.
(With inputs from IANS)
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