Ashes 2019 News

Steve Smith, whose Australian team came agonizingly close to winning a Test series in India in 2017, feels that conquering the Indian fortress is an achievement worth striving for and hopes to have one more crack at it. Smith also expressed his displeasure in Australia ‘drawing’ the Ashes in 2019.

Stuart Broad has revealed that he was just trying to hit David Warner’s stumps every time, restricting the width using a scrambled seam that the left-hander capitalises for scoring runs. He has also added that once he got him three times in a row, he got a bit of competitive edge over Warner.

Steve Smith in a podcast episode with Ish Sodhi for the Rajasthan Royals has revealed that the reason for his unorthodox stance is to restrict the different ways of getting out. He also added that his outside the off-stump stance helps him to leave every delivery that is not hitting the stump alone.