FTB's average that you are fixated on like Rain Man is meaningless. It's just 'cos the pitches have been dead. And now international sides have worked out FTB's defective technique even on dead pitches. They've worked him out. Look at his performance in the last 5 years. In the last five years, FTB Smith has had only one good series.
Even England have now worked him out. Look at FTB's average in the last Ashes series. They destroyed his defective technique. Even Head did well... And we still don't know if Head is any good at Test level. Even Mr. NickIt, Khawaja, scored two very cheap centuries on the dead SCG pitch... Head gifted him those centures by getting COVID.
Smith swiped across the line to be clean bowled off stump by a standard vanilla ball by Hasaranga in the first slogathon. Did you see it?
Or do you get spontaneous blindness whenever Smith's defective technique shows up? We've seen it again and again before. Some folks may wonder why coaches don't just tell Smith to stop swiping across the line to the legside. The problem is, that's the only way he can score. If he doesn't swipe across the line to the legside, he won't score at all... So of course then he gets clean bowled over and over again by spinners who spin the ball away from him. Leggies and SLA bowlers. Remember the harmless ball Leach bowled him with in the SCG Test? Or have you got amnesia?
