{"id":945841,"date":"2026-10-30T02:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945841\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:08:36","slug":"josh-inglis-makes-cricket-history-in-special-moment-never-seen-before-by-an-australian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945841\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Inglis makes cricket history in special moment never seen before by an Australian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Inglis made some extraordinary cricket<\/a> history on day three of the third Test against South Africa<\/a> that showcases his all-format abilities as a batter. Inglis made a brilliant 102 off 135 balls to help Australia reach 429 in their first innings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 31-year-old made the most of his opportunity when he replaced the injured Steve Smith<\/a> in the XI. And he now looks to have forced Marnus Labuschagne out<\/a> for the Aussie summer unless Labuschagne can score some runs in the second innings in Cape Town.<\/p>\n

The century was Inglis’ second in Test cricket in just five matches. His other hundred came on debut in Sri Lanka last year.<\/p>\n

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Remarkably, it made him the only Australian in cricket history to score multiple centuries in all three formats of the international game. He’s also has two tons in one-day internationals and two in T20 internationals.<\/p>\n

The only other Aussies with a century in all three formats are Shane Watson, Glenn Maxwell, Mitch Marsh, David Warner and Beth Mooney. But Inglis is the only one with more than one in all three.<\/p>\n

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Josh Inglis celebrates with Alex Carey after bringing up his century. (Photo by Grant Pitcher\/Gallo Images\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Watson, Marsh and Warner only scored one century in T20Is, while Maxwell and Mooney only have one in Tests. In world cricket, the only other players with multiple hundreds in every format are Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Martin Guptill, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Babar Azam, Jos Buttler, Quinton de Kock, Shai Hope, Pathum Nissanka, Harry Brook and Smriti Mandhana.<\/p>\n

“I think when I got out there, I realised it was a bloody good wicket, so it’s important we get some sort of lead here,” Inglis said at stumps on day three. “It’s tough being away (from home) for all three formats.<\/p>\n

“Those conversations are always had between three-format players and the selection committee. Those conversations will probably be had over the next couple of weeks.”<\/p>\n

Josh Inglis puts Australia on top in third Test<\/p>\n

Inglis’ knock helped the Aussies grab a 100-run lead after the first innings, before South Africa went to stumps at 4-140. It gave the Proteas a 40-run lead with six wickets remaining heading into day four.<\/p>\n

Inglis admitted the Aussies might not want to be chasing any more than 200 considering the pitch was showing signs of deterioration. The winner of the Test will claim the series 2-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Inglis made some extraordinary cricket history on day three of the third Test against South Africa that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-945841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}