The former Australian captain and Star cricketer Steve Smith opened up on the batting role which the Australian team management gave him years before. Steve Smith was involved in the ball tampering controversy of 2018 where he and David Warner was banned for an year at that time he was the captain of Australian test team.
Also, that time Justin Langer who was the head coach of Australia told him to play with the approach of ‘Mr Fix it’, means whatever the catastrophe happens, Smith was only allowed to play defensively for healing it and other betters will display around him. But nowadays Steve Smith seems to be allowed to play openly neither with the traditional defensive approach.
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This gets indicated with the increasing average and strike rate of him in the latest T20I matches which he played against the strong opposition teams of the world. So below is the complete statement of Steve Smith which he gave to the Australian media, he said, “I feel like when I’m playing good T20 cricket, I’m in that team (T20 World Cup) for sure. The role that I’ve been given the last couple of years is the ‘Mr. Fix It’ role and that tag’s been taken away from me now.”
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Later Smith added, “For the Sri Lanka tour, and I felt like I could go out and just play with a lot more freedom and naturally and not have any kind of hesitation in the back of my mind”.
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