Face it, the Steve Smith as opener experiment has failed and it’s time to look elsewhere.
“When the dogs are barking, the caravan moves on,” an old rugby coach of mine used to say to his teams whenever they faced trenchant criticism.an ordinary series against New ZealandSmith, as you know, has been the finest Australian batsman of his generation, the heir to Ricky Ponting, who was the heir to Steve Waugh, who was the heir to Allan Border, and so on.
Is he indeed suffering from being in his mid-30s, or do his high-20s come from opening, and not being in the middle order? Either way, it looks right now like he is in the early stages of what all legendary batsmen go through, when they decline to go voluntarily even when they can hear, at their heels, “Time’s winged chariot, hurrying near”.
One way or another, Smith will eventually go, either to far pavilions whence he came, or back to the middle order,I’ll have “The Obvious” for 100, please Tony!The most compelling reason for why to pick Bancroft is the sheer number of runs he has scored as an opener for Western Australia, in the Sheffield Shield, where his average is just under 50 for this season, higher than any other opening batsman in the country in first class cricket.
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