Here’s some stats to go on with while you’re waiting for Smith. He made nearly as many as the hapless David Warner has for the series, and in three fewer innings. He’s made as many in the series as England’s best two players combined. He’s made a third of all of Australia’s runs in the series, despite missing three innings. He’s top-scored in every innings he’s played, which is unprecedented. So many stones, one Gibraltar.
Back to the Oval. Back to Smith. He was dropped once, from a flying upper cut at Curran that squirmed out of Joe Root’s reach at slip. But you could hardly call him lucky: it was only the second time he had been dropped for the series.It was during a short lull in his innings, in which he also played and missed a couple of times. Well, he is human, partly. He said he had the flu this day, as if to explain why he took so long and made so few. We thought his only corporal weakness was for runs.
Smith had no issue with DRS, as others did, because had no need for recourse to it. It’s there for those who make mistakes. Smith thought he had made one, once, when England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow made as if he was about to take off the bails as Smith stretched and dived for a third. He wasn’t. The ball was nowhere near. Smith had been goosed. He laughed. It was a fake mistake.
GregBaum Sick of it. Embarrassed to be retaining the ashes on the back of these performances. Warner....worst opener I’ve seen in a series.
GregBaum IMO Smith is doing more than enough to rehabilitate himself. [Unless you're the nasty sort of person who refuses to believe in the necessity for forgiveness. There's a LOT of that sort around these days. Rancid fake Puritans.]
GregBaum Again...
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