Travis Head gave the former Australian batter Ed Cowan on Sunday when his team secured a 2-0 series against Sri Lanka.
Cowan, who scored 1001 tests of 18 games for Australia, had previously joked that Steve Smith's team trip to the EAU before his tour of Sri Lanka was simply a 'golf trip'.
Cowan had made similar comments last year in the Cricket podcast of the tribune in September.
But after sealing a nine -wickt victory against Sri Lanka on Sunday, Australia players celebrated behind the stage with some cold drinks with their heads by publishing a photo in their Instagram history of their celebrations.
He subtitled the story: “Another golf trip @eddiecowan”.
After his brilliance in Adelaide and Brisbane against India, Head has struggled to reach the triple figures in each of his last four trial matches, but the order to hit with the USMAN Khawaja during this series in Galle has increased.
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Travis Head gave the former Australian batter Ed Cowan on Sunday when his team secured a 2-0 series against Sri Lanka
![Head took Instagram to publish a photo of the Australia team celebrating his victory in the locker room and cavó in Cowan, writing: 'Another golf journey @eddiecowan'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/09/12/95021601-14377441-Head_took_to_Instagram_to_post_a_picture_of_the_Australia_team_c-a-21_1739105216855.jpg)
Head took Instagram to publish a photo of the Australia team celebrating his victory in the locker room and cavó in Cowan, writing: 'Another golf journey @eddiecowan'
![Australia claimed a 2-0 series victory against Sri Lanka on Sunday after a nine Wickt victory in the second test](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/09/12/95020297-14377441-image-a-3_1739104416239.jpg)
Australia claimed a 2-0 series victory against Sri Lanka on Sunday after a nine Wickt victory in the second test
Head handled 57 races in the first test before reaching 21 and 20 in the second test to help Australia seal the victory on Sunday.
Meanwhile, Steve Smith was appointed player of the series on Sunday, but insisted that he had not seriously aggravated his elbow injury the same morning.
The substitute captain defeated the main bearer of the series, Matt Kuhnemann (16 scalp at 17.18) to claim the honor after Australia won a nine -wicket victory in the second test in Galle.
Smith stressed his status as a master of Australia in the subcontinent, scoring two centuries of so many tickets to help tourists seal a first series to win in Sri Lanka since 2011.
The 35 -year -old is not sure if he will play on the next Australian tour of the subcontinent to India in 2027, when he is 37 years old.
“I am enjoying it at this time, so I will continue playing, I will continue to enjoy it and take it day by day,” said Smith.
An apparent recurrence of the injury in Smith's elbow was formed as a position of concern, with an already exhausted Australia that goes to Pakistan for the Champions Trophy this month.
Smith seemed to hyper-extend the elbow in which he was injured in the Big Bash League setback last month that delayed his flight to Dubai for the training camp of the test team.
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The substitute captain Steve Smith admitted that this was the best Australian side of his career to have played in the subcontinent
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But Smith had seemed to stop with an injury on Sunday after having taken an elbow injury in the series
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Smith had rejected fears for an elbow injury after hitting two centuries during the series
On Sunday four, he stopped after launching from Point and tried to shake the problem while presenting.
'I threw one when I shouldn't have done it. There was nothing in time. (It is) difficult when you are at the time of going back, “he said.
Smith was clear discomfort after launch, but insisted that he would recover for the Champions Trophy, where Australia could capture Pat Cummins.
'It is better than it was a couple of weeks ago after the big party. I'm quite sure it will be a quite fast recovery, '' he said.
The news will be a relief for Australia, with Cummins (ankle), Mitch Marsh (back), Josh Hazlewood (lateral) and Marcus Stoinis (retirement) are no longer available for the 50 superiors tournament.
In Sri Lanka, Smith made 272 races to an average of 136 to finish as the second score of the series in the series.
He reached 141 races in his first blow when Australia took full advantage of the raffle in the first test, hitting his way to the victory for an entrance and 242 races.
But his second ton (131) was possibly more important in the second game, since Australia sought to close a laundering of the series.
Smith reached the fold when Australia was in 2-37 problems on day two, after having lost through Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne at a low price.
He stabilized the response of tourists at 257 by Sri Lanka and forged an association of 259 races with Alex Carey (156) that finally was decisive in the second closest game.
It has been a great change for Smith, who was warm in his period as a first game to end the summer 2023-24 and achieved only 19 races in his first three entries in the recent series of origin against India.
But Smith has now scored centuries in four of his last five tests.
“Even when I wasn't receiving the careers I wanted, I was still telling all of you (the media) that I was actually hitting quite well,” said Smith.
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Victory means that Australia now has all bilateral series, since it has also surpassed India in early January
![On the first day of the first test, Smith reached the coveted milestone of 10,000 races after ending the summer at home a short race](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/02/09/12/95021661-14377441-image-a-8_1739104688446.jpg)
On the first day of the first test, Smith reached the coveted milestone of 10,000 races after ending the summer at home a short race
'There is certainly good luck involved, particularly in these conditions.
“You must make the most of what I have done, I suppose, at the last moment.”
Smith saw how the albums fell during the Sri Lanka series.
On the first day of the first test, he reached the coveted milestone of 10,000 races after finishing summer at home, a short race.
During the second test, Smith also became the main scorer of Australia in Asia with races of 1994, and the first Australian who does not want to reach 200 caught.
In addition, the law has obtained more centuries (seven) in Asia than any of its compatriots.