Travis Head scripts history, becomes first player to hit century in WTC final

Travis Head scripts history, becomes first player to hit century in WTC final

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Category : Sports Published on: June 10 2023

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  • Australian southpaw Travis Head became the first player to score a century in a World Test Championship final.
  • Travis Head scored his sixth Test century against India during Day 1 of the 2023 World Test Championship (WTC) Final at the Oval in London.
  • The previous final between New Zealand and India did not see any players crossing the three figure mark.
  • Head has been one of Australia's most consistent batters in the ongoing cycle of the World Test Championship cycle. Playing an aggressor's role in the middle-order order for Australia to perfection, Head hit 2 hundreds in 2022 and 3 fifties as he scored 655 runs last year in 10 Tests.
  • Notably, only two batters had gone past the fifty-run mark in the final of the inaugural edition of the WTC in 2021 where India lost to New Zealand. 
  • Devon Conway hit a fifty in the first innings while Kane Williamson hit a fifty in the second innings. 
  • In the WTC final so far, Ajinkya Rahane has scored 49 runs for India in the first innings.
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