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August 23, 2013 Australia

What do you make of Steve Smith’s batting?

We’ve been struggling with this for months and we’ve still not reached any firm conclusions. We asked an Australian friend for his view and he just said: “He’ll be fine,” which didn’t really help clarify things. We’re probably verging towards this: In good conditions in the first innings, Smith’s head’s

July 18, 2013 Australia

Ian Bell is the meat in a balls-up sandwich

We normally look forward to Steven Smith turning his arm over. This is partly because of his bowling action, but also because for the most part he’s rubbish. If Smith takes three wickets, this is officially what is known as ‘a balls-up’ on the part of the batting team. The

July 16, 2010 Australia

Steven Smith’s bowling action

You can waste a hell of a lot of time deconstructing Steven Smith’s double-elbowed chicken dance bowling action. We mentioned this to a friend of ours and he said, quite simply: “I want to deconstruct Steven Smith’s face.”