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Australian skipper Steve Smith delighted with first-innings total of 505
Australia scored a mammoth 505 in reply to India's first innings score of 408 in the second test at Brisbane.
Updated : Sep 29, 2017, 06:44 PM IST
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Australian skipper Steve Smith said he is 'delighted' that his side could push their first innings' total past 500-runs and take a sizeable lead in the second Test against India at Brisbane.
The hosts replied to India's 408 with 505 in their first innings as the captain scored a hundred and Mitchell Johnson smacked a quick-fire 88 runs.
"We were six down for 240-odd and Mitchell Johnson came out and took the charge to the Indian bowling.He took them on and played some terrific cricket. He was positive from ball one. They tried to get stuck in to him and he took them on because it played into his favour. They didn't really have an answer to him after that" - Steve Smith on Mitchell Johnson's heroics with the bat.
"To be fair the whole tail batted beautifully to get us up over the 500-mark. It was remarkable and we had a good day of cricket in the end. It was outstanding from Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon as well. Josh Hazlewood on debut was very good with the bat as well. They gave us a lead of 90-odd and it was a very good position," Smith added.
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The newly-appointed skipper was humble about his own Test hundred on debut as captain. It was his sixth overall hundred and second of the series so far.
"I said before in the pre-match conference that I wanted to lead from the front. So obviously I am delighted with this hundred as well," said Smith, who became the ninth Australian skipper to score a hundred on captaincy debut.
"I have done it in this game and hopefully it will continue in the future. Any hundred you score for Australia is a good one. But I am happier that we got 500 runs on the board. There is no point thinking about individual performances if the team is not doing well. So I am really happy with lead of 90," concluded Smith.
