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I like the idea of Steve Smith putting his hand up to open the batting for Australia’s Test side. It’s a very proactive move, and while there is obviously some risk attached he’s such a good player that I can’t see it not working to some degree.
Whether he actually gets better, or stays the same or becomes slightly worse because the ball moves around a bit, we don’t know what’s going to happen there. But just watching him over the last year, he’s had an indifferent time with the bat.
His best innings was probably at Lord’s, when he made a hundred during the second Test on last year’s Ashes tour. After he got that hundred I thought he would kick on and have another wonderful Ashes series. But that didn’t really happen.
He didn’t play badly, but he didn’t have the series we thought he was going to have.