Delhi:Australian cricket team's legendary batsman Steve Smith is known for his excellent batting as well as excellent fielding. On Sunday, Smith created history with his fielding in the first match of the three-match Test series between South Africa and Australia at Kingsmead in Durban.

Smith made Temba Bavuma his first victim during South Africa's innings. Shortly after this, he made a big record in his name by taking the catch of David Bedingham.

Steve Smith made world record by defeating Joe Root

Actually, Steve Smith has completed 221 catches in Test cricket. With this achievement, he has become the player who has taken the most catches as a fielder in Test cricket.

Earlier this record was in the name of England's Test captain Joe Root, who has taken 220 catches in 169 Test matches. Smith has now gone one step ahead of him.

However, both Smith and Root are still playing Test cricket. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see who among the two takes this record further in the future.

In this list, former Indian captain Rahul Dravid is at third position, Sri Lanka's Mahela Jayawardene is at fourth position and South Africa's Jacques Kallis is at fifth position.

Players with most catches in test cricket

Australia scored 390 runs in the first innings

At the same time, if we talk about this match, the Australian team scored 390 runs in its first innings with the help of Matt Renshaw's historic innings of 190 runs. Smith was not able to show anything special and was able to contribute only 25 runs. Till the time of writing, South Africa had scored 118 runs losing 4 wickets.