Steve Smith reveals his Machiavellian side with 'mockery' of Leach

This enforced values-revaluation may well have brought about change in the win-by-any-means outlook that landed them in hot water and alienated many in their own country. But it was never going to alter the dynamic of Ashes cricket: one of the most intensely fought and enjoyable rivalries in world sport.Plainly, Tim Paine's Australia are tired of being shamed and have no wish to play the Uriah Heep part for English audiences who give them heaps.

Nobody needs him to be an angel and he will never return to Aussie statesman duties. They never fitted him well. His true vocation is as a run-making machine who has taken batting to another level and transformed the art of fidgeting and pirouetting at the crease. He deserves our respect and to not be booed any longer, especially when he walks back out after being felled at 150kmph, as he was at Lord's.

Probably everyone in cricket would look at Leach and see the player who stands on the alpha-male margins. Every pavilion has one. It is not that special allowances should be made; more that mocking a Ben Stokes or Stuart Broad would be rather more courageous. I should acknowledge here that England fans started the ball rolling by turning up en masse bespectacled in baldie headcaps.

Perhaps people don't think much of Smith's abrasive approach to captaincy

Poms lose so grasp onto anything they can whinge about. Toughen up

Good to see the gap between Smith’s class as a batsman and class as a person hasn’t changed.

Who gives a shit - Jofra Archer imitated Steve Smith’s batting in the nets. Did you report on this?

Machiavellian - that's more a term I would use of the ultra Left feminists at SMH and The Guardian. By the way, Machiavelli himself was not Machiavellian - but he was involved in diplomacy and his home town was Florence Italy home of the Medicis etc.

No revelation.

do you homework- smith has made it clear he wasnt mocking leach - chris Roger's used to be involved with after match songs - Lyon called Smith in to help- smith grabbed glasses to impersonate Roger's. an opinion is always better if it's an informed one smh.

After being part of the most stupid and toxic culture in test cricket, they should tread carefully. stevesmith49 Everyone hates cheats, especially in cricket, especially when they cheated in such a disgraceful way, they’d do well not to remind us of it. Best be graceful winners.

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