Smith's Test-best 192 has records tumbling

Steve Smith's incredible form has continued, Australia's captain scoring a career-best score and third consecutive hundred of the series on the second day of the third Commonwealth Bank Test.

Smith fell just short of a maiden double-century, bowled on 192 attempting to slog his way to 200 with No.11 Josh Hazlewood at the other end. 

Smith shared an entertaining 106-run partnership with Ryan Harris, who recorded his Test-best score of 74. A straight-driven six from Smith went 97 metres, landing several rows back amongst a raucous MCG crowd.

Smith and Brad Haddin put on 110, upping the run-rate on day two before the wicketkeeper fell after reaching his half-century. Smith and Mitchell Johnson added a 50-run partnership of their own.

He had earlier brought up his first 100 with a glanced boundary off Mohammad Shami, his fifth hundred of the year and his seventh overall.

The 25-year-old has now scored seven centuries and nine fifties since he returned to Australia's Test side in March last year, at an average of well over 50.

His hundred in this match came off 191 balls with nine fours and a six.

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- Smith is the first Australian captain to score centuries in each of his first two Tests as skipper. He's the fourth captain overall after South Africa's Jackie McGlew, India Vijay Hazare and England's Alastair Cook.

- The 13th Australian and the 56th overall to score a hundred in three consecutive Tests.

- The first Australian to do it since Matthew Hayden against India in 2007-08 and first overall since Pakistan's Younis Khan last month.

- The youngest Australian to achieve the feat since Mark Taylor in 1989-90 and the youngest overall since England's Ravi Bopara in 2009.

- Don Bradman holds the record with hundreds in six consecutive Tests, which he did in 1937-38. He also made hundreds in four consecutive Tests twice (in 1929-30 and 1931-32)

- The 20th-fastest Australian to 2000 Test runs (47 innings).

- The 36th Australian to score 1000 runs in the calendar year, in nine Tests with five centuries and five fifties.