Sam Constas: Made a record with his innings of 60 runs.
Sam Konstas Records: Sam Constas has made a very good debut with his debut in the Boxing-Day Test match against India at the Melbourne ground, in which he scored 60 runs in the first innings of his international career and also created many new records. Given. In this match, Sam Constas was included in the playing 11 of the Australian team in place of Nathan McSweeney, who was not able to perform well with the bat in the first three matches. Sam took full advantage of this opportunity and batted aggressively and scored 60 runs in just 65 balls. Sam Constas has become the fourth youngest player to debut in Test cricket for Australia.
Fourth player to score a half-century on debut in the Boxing Day Test
On behalf of the Australian team, Sam Constas got a chance to play his international cricket debut match directly as the Boxing-Day Test. Constas made this match memorable by playing an excellent half-century in which he became the fourth player in Boxing-Day Test history to score a half-century while debuting as an opening batsman. Before Constas, this feat was done by Roy Fredericks of West Indies, Mayank Agarwal of India and Ed Cowan of Australia. While Fredericks had scored an inning of 76 runs against Australia in the year 1968, Mayank Agarwal had scored 76 runs in the year 2018 and Cowan had scored 68 runs in the year 2011. Apart from this, Sam Constas has managed to play an inning of 60 runs.
Youngest person to score a half-century for Australia in Tests
Sam Constas has now become the youngest player to score a half-century for Australia in Test cricket. Sam has achieved this feat at the age of just 19 years and 85 days. Kontas has broken the records of Neil Harvey and Archie Jackson in this matter. The first number in this list is Ian Craig, who, while playing for Australia in 1953, played a half-century in the match against South Africa at the age of 17 years and 240 days.
This is Australia’s third opening partnership of 50 plus runs in the year 2024.
After David Warner’s retirement from Test cricket at the beginning of 2024, many changes were seen in the opening pair of the Australian team. The partnership of 89 runs for the first wicket between Sam Constas and Usman Khawaja in the Boxing Day Test against India is the Kangaroo team’s third half-century opening partnership of the year 2024. Earlier, there was an opening partnership of 70 runs between David Warner and Usman Khawaja against Pakistan in Sydney, whereas in the Test match played against New Zealand at Wellington ground, there was a partnership of 61 runs for the first wicket between Khawaja and Smith.
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