On August 18, 2019, Australia star test batsman steve smith was suffered by a deadly bouncer by England pacer Jofra archer. After, this nasty situation Australia decided to play with a concussion player in place of steve smith. For the first time after the ICC rules change first concussion substitute player in a test match is introduced.
No one knows the rise of the substitute will be vital as more than steve smith. Marnus Labuschagne South African born Australian entered as a substitute and scored a remarkable 59 and made his team draw at the tough situation.
After seeing his excellent batting the team included in the third test in that he has scored 74,80 respectively. After these solid performances, he fixed his position in the Australian test cricket squad. The young boy has made a better performance in the Ashes series and smashed 1185 in 13 matches with a high score of 185 against Pakistan.
In recent times, Labuschagne played an important role in Australia’s whitewashing series against mighty kiwis. He ended with scoring 1104 runs at an economy of 64.94 and surpassed the test cricket specialist steve smith. Today, ICC has released the test batsmen rankings, Labuschagne moved to 3 rd place after steve smith and Virat Kohli.
He also surpassed new Zealand captain Kane Williamson and Australian opener David Warner. Starting as a concussion substitute for smith to rise of Marnus is outstanding.
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