With India looming, Smith ‘finds his hands’ at just the right time

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Australia’s star hitter believes his struggles are a thing of the past after a relatively quiet IPL

24 November 2020 - 16:14Wellington — Australia batsman Steve Smith says a training breakthrough during a stint in isolation has helped him find his hands again and he is confident his Indian Premier League struggles are behind him as he prepares to face India on Friday.

The 31-year-old said he had hardly picked up a bat during the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic and then struggled on Australia’s limited-overs tour of England, where he scored 31 runs in three Twenty20 innings. “The past few days I have found something … I have found my hands which I am extremely excited about,” Smith told reporters on Tuesday. “It’s just getting that feel of the bat behind my toe the right way, the way my hands come up the bat.

 

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