Australia opener David Warner scored his maiden Test triple century as hosts continued to dominate Paꦰkistan in the ongoing Pink Ball Test at the Adelaide Oval.
Warner, whose previous high score was 253, hit an unbeaten 335 from 418 balls – the second-highest Test score by an Australian and 10th highest overall.
He passed Sir Donald Bradman and Mark Taylor’s mark of 334 before the Aussie skipper Tim Paine declared the first innings on 589/3.
Former opening batsman Matthew Hayden has the highest Test score by an Au𒁏stralian🥃 with his 380 not out against Zimbabwe in 2003.
The West Indies great Brian Lara is the current world record holder with his unbeaten 400 against England in 200𒉰4.
Here's the view from the stands as David Warner made history in Adelaide!
Epic.
— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau)
Veteran E𝐆ngland fast bowler Stuart Broad, who dismissed Warner at will during tꦗhe 2019 Ashes in England, admitted on social media platform Instagram that Warner was in the vicinity of breaking the world record in Test cricket.
Here’s how Twitter reacted on Tim Paine’s declaration:
David Warner had the chance of beating Lara's 400 dont know why they declared
— Siddarth Pai (@siddarthpaim)
Big decisꦛion by Tim Paine to declare with Warner appro🅰aching Lara’s world record score of 400. This is most admirable aspect of Aussie cricket: personal milestones secondary to team interest. Warner must rest content at getting past Bradman’s highest score. In itself huge!
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Ha ha this declara🤡tion is typically Aussie way of playing cricket: game before self
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
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