Cricket: Steve Smith has opened a can worms on Australia's top order, while also saying he isn't planning on retiring soon.
Smith fuels speculation on batting order | 00:53Australian opener Usman Khawaja reckons great mate Steve Smith wants to bat No. 4 for the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy series – and has declared it the place in Australia’s batting order that will see ‘Smudge’, and the home side, have the best chance of beating heavyweights India.
As the countdown to this summer’s series begins, much debate has centred around whether Smith stays at the top of the order, where he has been since Dave Warner retired in January, or moves back to the middle order. Squaring off against England’s Sam Curran, the South Australian hit three fours and as many sixes to equal the most runs ever by an Aussie batter in a T20I over – joining Ricky Ponting , Dan Christian , and Mitchell Marsh .The hulking effort was a timely one given the headlines surrounding exactly who should partner Khawaja atop an Australian batting order looking to avenge what has been consecutive Test series losses to India on home soil.
“And if you look at how many runs we scored with Davey Warner in the team and Smudge batting at four, we scored a lot of runs “But if you have me opening, Labuschagne three, Smith four … I feel like Travis Head might be best suited.
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