Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has expressed considerations over the batting type of Steve Smith however backed him to come back out of his type stoop as Australia gear as much as tour India for a five-match Take a look at sequence early subsequent yr.
In the meantime, the three-time World Cup winner has stated that Smith’s batting method will not be a reason behind concern, however the opposition groups have someway sorted out a technique to apply brakes on the previous top-ranked Take a look at batter’s free-flowing batting. Nonetheless, what bothers Ponting is the truth that within the final couple of years, Steve has been unable to get excessive scores persistently and his incapacity to register 4 to 5 centuries in a Take a look at match calendar yr.
I’ve watched Steve Smith fairly intently: Ricky Ponting
”The easiest way to explain it’s, it (Smith’s type) has been detached. For 4 or 5 years, he has been so extremely constant, making persistently excessive scores, making 4, 5, or six lots of in a Take a look at match calendar yr and he hasn’t been in a position to do this within the final couple of years,” stated Ponting on ‘The ICC Evaluation.’
”I’ve watched him fairly intently, and I don’t assume there may be something technically there that has modified an excessive amount of. Opposition groups possibly have lastly began to work out the way in which they will sluggish him down from scoring shortly or have discovered some methods to assault him and get him out,” he added.
Steve Smith at the moment has 28 Take a look at centuries to his identify. His current ton got here in an away sequence towards Sri Lanka earlier this month. This was additionally his first century in red-ball cricket after the house sequence towards India in January 2021.
The Australian batting mainstay can be anticipated to rediscover his mojo by the point the tour of India comes round as Australia can be trying to register their first red-ball sequence victory on Indian soil after the 2004/05 season. Furthermore, the win would assist the Pat Cummins-led facet in qualifying for his or her maiden ICC WTC remaining.
