Steve Smith shows great signs in his batting reinvention

After a decade at the top and everything that has happened, Steve Smith’s batting still manages to fascinate.

His ‘new’ batting technique was under forensic examination on the first day of the Frank Worrell Trophy series on Wednesday.

The upheaval in Smith’s footwork has been so widely analysed and picked apart that you would think Australian cricket obsessives have themselves been up all night in front of the mirror and can’t get by without picking at their shirts, patting themselves on the helmet and going the full fidget, as if over-thinking were a virus.

When Smith bats with Marnus Labuschagne, as he did for several hours in Perth, there is an added dimension. That 2019 day at Lord’s when Smith was sconed by Jofra Archer still echoes. Labuschagne, famously, revived his career as Smith’s concussion replacement.

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