Steve Smith has been in exceptional form during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, scoring back-to-back centuries. He attributes his success to adjustments in his trigger movement, aimed at mitigating the threat of LBW dismissals.
If you’re an international side touring Australia, the last thing you want to hear is Steve Smith telling fans that his eyes are still fit and firing. Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. Not that anyone needed reassurance that Smith is seeing the ball well, given his back-to-back hundreds in Brisbane and now Melbourne this Border-Gavaskar Trophy series. But it’s still unsettling for India’s touring party.
Smith’s exaggerated trigger movement across his stumps has varied at times throughout his career, but recent adjustments after the Adelaide Test have clearly worked. “I just proved that my eyes are still there,” Smith joked with Fox Cricket’s Mark Howard on his recent form. “(First innings I was) just trying to take LBW out of the play a little bit. Bumrah’s obviously got the ‘skiddy’ one, other bowlers get the ‘skiddy’ one from back of a length. “I might’ve got stuck in Perth on the crease when the ball was hitting the stumps … I sort of made a conscious decision to get a little bit further down (the pitch) and it’s worked out nicely.” Smith’s start to this summer’s Border-Gavaskar Trophy was lean, with scores of 0, 17 and 2 across the first and second Test leaving critics circling. But as so many legends of the game have done, when their back is up against the wall, they deliver. And that’s exactly what Steve Smith’s done.In tough conditions, his 101 at the Gabba gave him his first Test century in nearly 18 months — either side of his underwhelming move to the top of the order against the West Indies and New Zealand last summer. Smith’s technique has always been labelled as unorthodox, which is what makes explaining all his idiosyncrasies so difficult. So there’s no better person to describe the mechanics behind his recent tinkering than the man himself. “It’s hard to explain … when I’m taking my guard at the moment, I’m taking leg (stump) and then going two inches outside leg stump, so I’m putting a mark ther
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