2 minute read Steve Smith’s run-scoring apparently depends on whether he does or does not know the whereabouts of his own hands. Given Smith didn’t make it out of the foothills in India but then made a hundred in the World Test Championship final, we can only presume he happened across them again
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Steve Smith’s mountain-toppling attempt and Rohit Sharma’s potential landslide | an India v Australia preview
2 minute read Mountains crop up a lot in metaphors. They’re forever being scaled, climbed or conquered. Steve Smith has come up with his own way to reach the summit of the mountain that is a Test tour of India though. “If we are able to topple that mountain, that’d be huge,” he
Continue readingSteve Smith’s number one priority on a Test tour
2 minute read “Cricket Australia basically said to us, ‘Okay, what can we kinda do to make your time in hotels for the next month better? So the boys just took it to the next level” – Pat Cummins The latest series of The Test outlines all the various toys and gizmos the
Continue readingSteve Smith’s Sussex stint and podcast proxies – mop-up of the day
2 minute read Mop-up of the day is a thing we do when we can’t really be bothered writing more than a sentence or two about a bunch of different things. Sometimes we end up writing extra sentences though because it looks weird if the opening sentence, in bold, is immediately followed by
Continue readingWhy it would apparently be a “tragedy” if Steve Smith didn’t get to be Australia captain again
2 minute read International cricket’s longest-serving stand-in Test captain, Tim Paine (oh come on, he is), has been talking about whether Steve Smith could one day replace him. Paine told Cricinfo that when he first came into the Australia Test team, Smith was, “growing into that role and getting better and better. Then
Continue readingThe real motivation for Steve Smith’s elaborate pre-delivery fidgeting routine REVEALED
< 1 minute read Steve Smith’s pad-tapping, box-adjusting pre-delivery fidget routine is really quite something. And now, finally, we know why he does it. “I think it’s left pad, right pad, box, one tap in the middle, two behind my foot, look up, two behind my foot, look up, one… good to go.” That’s
Continue readingVideo: A new angle on a perfectly normal Steve Smith defensive stroke
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Continue readingIs Steve Smith finally tired of batting?
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