Steve Smith is currently playing for the Sydney Sixers in the BBL and is in fine form. He has scored two consecutive centuries in this league.
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Steve Smith is in excellent form at the moment. He is rocking the Big Bash League (BBL). He has scored two consecutive centuries while playing with Sydney Sixers. This player has scored a century against Sydney Thunder on Saturday. During this, he did something which is usually not seen in cricket. Smith is known for his strange batting. He sometimes does strange things on the field. He did something similar in the last match at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Smith played an unbeaten 125 while playing for the Sixers. He faced 66 balls and hit five fours and nine sixes. On the basis of his innings, Sixers scored 187 runs losing two wickets. Apart from Smith, captain Moises Henriques scored an unbeaten 45 off 36 balls. The captain hit one four and two sixes in his innings.
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Smith stood up leaving the stumps
Whether it is Test or ODI or T20, Smith has been seen doing strange things many times while batting. Everyone remembers his talking to himself in the Ashes series and doing strange things after leaving the ball. He did this in BBL as well. It was the last ball of the Sixers’ innings. Bowler Gurinder Sandhu was in front of him. On the last ball, Smith left the stumps and stood outside the off stump. However, Sandhu did not allow Smith to play a big shot on this ball.
Sandhu threw the ball at his feet and Smith tried to hit it towards deep midwicket but the ball did not hit the bat well. The ball took the edge of his bat and hit his pad. In response to this huge score, the team of Sydney Thunder got piled on just 62 runs. Smith had earlier also scored a century against the Adelaide Strikers and played an innings of 101 runs.
Eyes on test series
Australia has to come on a tour of India next month and here it has to play a four-match Test series. Smith will be eyeing this series. Smith is one of Australia’s main batsmen. At present, he is also counted among the best batsmen in Tests. In such a situation, if he goes against India, then Australia’s chances of doing well will increase. India will also need to be careful with Smith.