Ashes 2021 LIVE: Steve Smith rolls back time at Adelaide- Australia stand-in captain Steve Smith on Monday rolled back the clock with his bold decision to ball against England. With Australia requiring just 4 wickets in Adelaide Pink-ball Test, Smith rolled his arm as the partnership between Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler was creeping up. As soon as he decided to warm up for the bowling, the crowd appreciated Smith’s move by a round of applause. Follow Ashes 2021 LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
Ashes 2021 LIVE: Stand-in captain Steve Smith rolls back time at Adelaide with bold call to roll his arm- Watch video
The Aussie captain bowling? That’d never work 🤔
Cricket world adores Steve Smith’s brief leg spin return >> https://t.co/hus9JiO0ql #Ashes pic.twitter.com/W1M8Yzx3Du
— Fox Cricket (@FoxCricket) December 20, 2021
“Turning back the clock Steve Smith, he doesn’t like bowling much these days, he says he’d rather concentrate on his batting,” Mark Waugh told Fox Cricket.
“Not sure why because he was actually a pretty useful leg spinner,” he added.
Brett Lee added: “Even throughout the shorter form of the game too I thought he had some nice variation.”
“Good probing over from the captain but that might be the only one we see from him,” Isa Guha said.
Waugh added: “That was a really good over, landed them well.”
Smith had last bowled at Test level in November 2019 against Pakistan.
Smith was back as captain of Australia after 3.5 years gap. Everything he touched turned to gold as all his decisions helped Australia dominate England. He also slammed 93 runs in the first innings to take the game away from Joe Root & Co. He had last led Australia in a controversial sandpaper gate Test against South Africa at Cape Town in May 2018 after which he was sacked as captain and banned from international cricket for a year.
Ashes 2021 LIVE: Stand-in captain Steve Smith rolls back time at Adelaide with a bold call to roll his arm- Watch video
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