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This star Australian batter needs just a half-century in the WTC 2025 Final to break a 99-year-old record at Lord’s—will history be rewritten?

New Delhi: Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith may possibly play his last Test match at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Smith’s performance at Lord’s has always been excellent and now he has a golden opportunity to become the highest run-scoring foreign batsman (non-English) here. He needs only 51 runs to make this record. Australia will take on South Africa in the

Australia’s star batsman Steve Smith may possibly play his last Test match at Lord’s Cricket Ground. Smith’s performance at Lord’s has always been excellent and now he has a golden opportunity to become the highest run-scoring foreign batsman (non-English) here. He needs only 51 runs to make this record. Australia will take on South Africa in the World Test Championship (WTC) 2025 final starting on June 11.

Smith faces the challenge of three giants

Australia’s Warren Bardsley tops this list. The left-handed batsman has scored 575 runs in seven innings at an average of 115, including two centuries and two half-centuries. In his last Test, he scored an unbeaten 193 at Lord’s.

Smith will have to leave behind many giants to reach this record. In second place is West Indies’ great all-rounder Gary Sobers, who has scored 571 runs in nine innings at an average of 95.16, including two centuries and two half-centuries. In third place is Australia’s Sir Don Bradman, who is considered the greatest batsman in the world. He has scored 551 runs in eight innings at an average of 78.71, including two centuries and a half-century.

Smith’s performance at Lord’s

Steve Smith is fourth on this list. He has scored 525 runs in nine innings at an average of 58.33, including two centuries and two half-centuries. His last Test match at Lord’s was in Ashes 2023, in which he scored 110 runs in the first innings and Australia defeated hosts England by 43 runs. In 2015 too, he scored a double century at Lord’s and Australia won that Test by a huge margin of 405 runs.

Lord’s – Smith’s second favorite ground

Ahead of the WTC 2025 final, Smith revealed that Lord’s is his second favorite ground after Sydney. He also made a funny comment before the match.

He said, “I think this is my favorite ground after Sydney. Both its history and surface are special. It takes a few balls to adjust to the slope here. At one end it feels like you are standing very high and at the other end it feels like you are falling. But the ball goes fast in both directions.”

Smith also likes Lord’s lunch

Smith also said in a conversation with ESPNcricinfo, “And then the lunch here is great. People say that this is a ground where you can enjoy lunch if you are not able to score runs. Fortunately or unfortunately, I have performed quite well here in the last few years, so I have not been able to enjoy lunch as much.”