Wife Dani Willis knows Smith’s habits better than most, but even she thought the latest round of Smith testing out a new bat at almost 1 in the morning was worthy enough to share on her social media.
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Tales of him shadow-batting throughout the night on overseas tours and struggling to sleep due to nerves have become legendary for arguably the best batter since Don Bradman. Laughs aplenty as Smith’s cricket obsession perfectly captured by wifeĪcting Australian captain Steve Smith famously can’t get enough of cricket during the day. “It’s very much a marginal call because technology is not 100% accurate, there is some element of degree of error within all ball-tracking and all ball predicted path.”īuttler ended up enjoying a rare victory when Smith clipped an Ollie Robinson delivery down leg side and the keeper made a full-length dive to his left to dismiss the Australian stand-in skipper for six. Taufel said the DRS is designed to get rid of the shocker, “it’s not designed to change or overrule umpires on marginal decisions on field”. It’s a really difficult judgment for the umpire to pin-point exactly the point of impact in line with off stump.” “As we know with these types of decisions and if you look at the replay, you’ve got the off stump line obscured by the batter’s pad. Simon Taufel explains the umpire's viewpoint for England's review of Steve Smith's LBW #Ashes /k03gN0a9he “The benefit of the doubt here goes to the umpire’s decision on the field, not benefit of the doubt to the batter,” he explained. The ball was adjudged to have been hitting the stumps but Smith was hit in the “umpire’s call” area on off stump, meaning the on-field decision was upheld.įormer ICC umpire of the year Simon Taufel on Seven said Smith was lucky but the correct decision had been made.
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Umpire Rod Tucker adjudged the LBW not out and England appealed to the third umpire. “How lucky is he? Unbelievable,” said former Test opener Matthew Hayden. Smith was then trapped in front by Broad from the second ball he faced in an almost identical fashion to his dismissal for 93 in the first innings. The miserable Adelaide Test continued for English keeper Jos “Buttler Fingers” when he dropped a one-handed chance off the first delivery Smith faced from the bowling of Stuart Broad.Īfter a couple of costly fumbling efforts in the first innings, Buttler had actually taken an athletic diving catch the previous delivery to get rid of opener Marcus Harris for 23. The move was quickly deemed ‘f-ing village’ by The Grade Cricketer author and podcaster Ian Higgins on social media. However, after being milked for six singles in a row in his third, the experiment was shelved. Whether it was to fix England’s always concerning over-rates issue, or just to test left-hander Head against the ball spinning away from him, Robinson would only concede five runs from his first two overs, tying down Head in particular. With regular spinner Jack Leach dropped from the England team for the second Test, and part-time option Joe Root missing the early play on day four after copping a blow in the nets, it fell to Ollie Robinson to switch from his usual seam-up to send down some more than handy off-breaks at Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head. Ollie Robinson, everybody! #Ashes /Uoa4bwnRF2 It’s something you see on occasion in park cricket: the opening bowler switching to spin after a hard morning’s work. Robinson’s ‘f-ing village’ bowling change raises eyebrows In Starc’s next over, the last of the day, Root would feather an edge through to keeper Alex Carey to all but extinguish England’s hopes of forcing a draw on day five. Root would take several minutes to recover, only for the cricket gods to show no mercy. Worse was still to come shortly before stumps, with the captain copping a full-blooded hit to the unmentionables from Mitchell Starc, and instantly hitting the floor in agony. While Root returned midway through the afternoon’s play, he was still clearly handicapped by the injury, failing to get a hand to a tough chance at slip off Labuschagne soon after coming on. He is currently being assessed by the England medical team. From the ECB just now: England captain Joe Root will not be on the field at the start of play today after being hit in the abdomen during throw downs in the warm-up before play.