How Steve Smith could go from golden duck to golden ticket
Steve Smith does not look like the player he once was but he could still make a shock return to the IPL to team up with an Australian cricketing great.
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Opinion is divided among commentators about whether batting at the international level is getting harder but there is one change in a bowler’s bag of tricks, mastered by an England quick, which could in fact prove that true.
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Australia’s bowlers looked fresh and sharp as they knocked over India for 150. But then a batting collapse puts the Aussies’ resting tactics under the microscope.
Why Hot Spot was blown up this summer
Viewers of day one of the First Test between Australia and India will notice that a key component of the DRS technology they may have been use to in previous summers is missing and its omission has already courted controversy.
Australia’s ‘Dad’s Army’ of greats ready to end trophy curse
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Cummins captaincy revelation puts pressure on Bumrah
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India mull selection bombshell, axing of veteran superstar
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How world’s richest cricket league rips off its biggest talent
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The key detail which could make Smith the greatest again
Steve Smith has regularly spoken about the phenomenon of ‘losing his hands’ and then ‘finding’ them again in the never ending pursuit of his nirvana at the crease. He may have rediscovered the detail which placed him among the world’s best batsmen.
Iconic batting to ugly flashpoints: 10 biggest moments in Border-Gavaskar history
Since the advent of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 1996, Australia’s rivalry with India has become one of sport’s fiercest. We count down the 10 biggest moments in the series’ history.
Original URL: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/journalists/ben-horne/page/10