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Australia’s Steve Smith has joined an elite group of batter to reach 10,000 Test runs on Wednesday during the first morning of the opening Test against Sri Lanka.
Smith started the match on 9,999 runs and on his first ball pushed for a single off Prabath Jayasuriya in Galle to be the 15th player and fourth Australian to the milestone.
The stand-in skipper raised his bat to acknowledge the applause from the crowd.
Smith joined fellow Australians Ricky Ponting, Allan Border and Steve Waugh in a list led by India’s Sachin Tendulkar, who made 15,921 runs in his redball career.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar was the first to cross 10,000 runs in Test cricket when he achieved the feat against Pakistan in 1987 at Ahmedabad.

Here is the list of all batters who have crossed the 10,000run mark in Test cricket;