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Australian star opener Usman Khawaja won the first Test of the Ashes series against England (ENG vs AUS) with his bat.
First century, then fifty in second innings, Usman Khawaja dominates in first Test of Ashes 2023
Australian star opener Usman Khawaja is scoring runs continuously with his bat in the first Test of the Ashes series against England (ENG vs AUS). He has performed brilliantly in the first match of the five-match Test series. He had scored a brilliant century in the first innings of this Test and has now scored a fifty in the second innings. This half-century of Usman has taken the Australian team towards victory.
Let us tell you that the first Test match of the Ashes series is being played between England vs Australia. Usman Khawaja has dominated in both the innings of this Test match. He played a brilliant inning of 141 runs in the first innings against England and kept the team in the match. At the same time, while chasing the target of 281 runs, Usman showed excellent batting performance and scored a half-century in the second innings. Usman has so far scored 54 runs in the second innings with the help of 7 fours. However, after his innings, he has already reached near 200 runs in the first test and he can touch this figure.
Be the second player to bat on all five days for Australia (in Tests)
Significantly, in the history of Test cricket, Kim Hughes has batted for Australia on all five days. At the same time, Usman Khawaja has become the second batsman to bat on all five days in Tests for Australia. In fact, England batted first in this Test and declared the innings on the first day itself and Australia came into bat on the very first day and then batted till the second day. Then on the third day both Australia and England batted and then on the fourth day England were all out and the Kangaroos batted. While batting on the fifth day, Usman has made this record his name.
Test career like this so far
Let us tell you that Usman Khawaja has had a great Test career so far. He has so far scored 4704 runs in 109 innings of 62 Tests at an impressive average of 48.49. During this he has the best score of 195 runs. Apart from this, he has scored 15 centuries and 22 half-centuries in his Test career.
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