South Africa skipper Graeme Smith on Thursday went past the 9,000-run mark in Test cricket as he reached his double century against Pakistan at Dubai on the second day of the second Test of the three match-series in the United Arab Emirates.
After bowling out Pakistan for 99 on the first day, Smith, in company of AB de Villiers took the attack on the opposition to take an imposing lead.
Smith came into the match at the back of 8,800 runs from 111 matches at an average of 48.35, including 26 tons and 37 half-centuries. Ever since making his Test debut in March 2002. Smith has gone to the become South Africa’s second-highest run-getter after Jacques Kallis.
The South African skipper also became the first South African and 12th batsman overall to score five or more double hundreds in Test cricket. His fifth double hundred came in the 195th innings of 112nd Test match. Don Bradman holds the record of making the highest number of double hundreds in Tests. The Australian batsman scored 12 double hundreds in 80 innings of 52 Test matches. West Indian Brian Lare is the second with nine double hundreds in 232 innings of 131 Test matches while Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara is third with eighth 200 plus scores in 200 innings of 117 Test matches.
MOST RUNS IN TEST CRICKET:
Batsman M I N.O Runs AVG H.S 100 50 0
Sachin Tendulkar (India) 198 327 33 15837 53.86 248* 51 67 14
Ricky Ponting (Australia) 168 287 29 13378 51.85 257 41 62 17
Rahul Dravid (India) 164 286 32 13288 52.31 270 36 63 8
Jacques Kallis (South Africa) 164 277 40 13140 55.44 224 44 58 15
Brian Lara (West Indies) 131 232 6 11953 52.88 400* 34 48 17
Allan Border (Australia) 156 265 44 11174 50.56 205 27 63 11
Steve Waugh (Australia) 168 260 46 10927 51.06 200 32 50 22
S Chanderpaul (West Indies) 148 251 42 10830 51.81 203* 28 61 14
Mahela Jayawardene (S.L) 138 232 14 10806 49.56 374 31 45 13
Kumar Sangakkara (S.Lanka) 117 200 16 10486 56.98 287 33 42 9
Sunil Gavaskar (India) 125 214 16 10122 51.12 236* 34 45 12
Graeme Smith (South Africa) 112 195 13 9027 49.59 277 27 37 11