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Mitchell Starc joins Pat Cummins in elusive list after rare double in D/N Gabba Test vs England

Abhinav Tyagi

Mitchell Starc with the bat - (Source: AFP)Mitchell Starc with the bat - (Source: AFP)

On Saturday, December 6, Day 3 of the Day-Night Brisbane Test got underway with Australia's tail-enders dominating the first session. The morning belonged to Mitchell Starc as the southpaw frustrated the visitors with his batting prowess.

The left-arm seamer, who has already wreaked havoc with the ball, is also making noise with the bat and slammed his 12th Test fifty. The 35-year-old slammed nine boundaries to bring up this special feat. 

Starc joins Cummins in elusive list

Further, Starc also entered the record books as the red-ball talisman joined his teammate Pat Cummins to become the second player in World Test Championship (WTC) history to take 200+ wickets and 1000+ runs.

Notably, Cummins was the first to do so with 1020 runs and 215 wickets in 51 matches. Meanwhile, Starc has 1003+ runs and 207 wickets in 51 innings as well. 

Mitchell Star's tryst with records

With the fifty, Starc has also now become the ninth Australian batter to complete 1000+ runs in the World Test Championship. Further, with the 1000+ runs mark in WTC history, the left-arm seamer is also the 5th cricketer after Cummins, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, and Chris Woakes to have the double of 1000 runs and 100+ wickets. 

Shedding light on Starc, the 35-year-old is on a different level as he picked up a six-wicket haul in the first innings and took 10 wickets in the first match, making it a total of 16 wickets so far in this Ashes. 

At the time of writing this article, Australia are cruising towards a comfortable lead in the game and have put 478 runs on the board with a lead of 144 runs.