NSW teen Sam Konstas ties Ricky Ponting’s long-standing feat with 2nd Shield ton

Sam Konstas, a teenager, has been a part of Sheffield Shield cricket’s illustrious history by becoming the third-youngest player to score two tons in a single Shield match, after Ricky Ponting. In the second innings of New South Wales’ Sheffield Shield match against South Australia, Konstas scored 105.

At the top of the standings is Ponting, Australia’s most successful Test captain to date. In the 1992–93 Shield season, when playing for Tasmania against Western Australia, he accomplished the esteemed feat at the age of eighteen. Konstas has surpassed Donald Bradman, the first person to reach the milestone at the age of 20, and now stands third behind Ponting and Archie Jackson.

Sam Konstas, on the other hand, appeared intensely focused on the work at hand and revealed that he had to adjust to the plan of attack that the South African bowlers had planned for him.

Of course, quite unique! But maybe tomorrow we finish the work and continue to conduct our core duties effectively. They were bowling a wider line and had different plans. I had to take my meds a little bit and be a little brutal,” Konstas said, as cited.

On the last day, SA has an uphill battle while NSW is leading.

After NSW declared at 282/6, SA was forced to play a rough eight overs. Henry Hunt made it to stumps, but Conor McInerney’s day was not to come; in the sixth over, Nathan Lyon trapped him and forced him to walk the entire way back to the hut after he had conceded a 17-ball duck.

On the last day at Cricket Central in Sydney, it will be up to international regulars Alex Carey and Travis Head to get their team near the goal. After failing to maintain a sitter long enough to eliminate Konstas at the beginning of Day 3, Carey would want to make amends.

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With an exciting final day of play ahead of us, Lyon, full of confidence after his first innings fifer, will try to add to his total.