Under the captaincy of Steve Smith, the Australian team defeated India by nine wickets in the third test. Smith may not have been able to show excellent with the bat, but he impressed everyone with his superb captaincy. With the victory in the third Test, Australia has confirmed their place in the final of the World Test Championship. The fourth Test between India and Australia will be played at the stadium in Ahmedabad from 9 March. Now a big update has come out even before the match.
Coach Gave This Update
Australian team head coach Andrew McDonald said that Pat Cummins is in Australia and touch with the team. Our thoughts are still with him and his family during this difficult time. We are in constant touch with him daily; he is not here, and the Test match is a few days away, so we will discuss it with him daily.
Pat Cummins Is In Australia
Pat Cummins had returned home before the third test due to family reasons. For this reason, Steve Smith got the chance of captaincy. Cummins’ mother’s health is wrong, so it is difficult for him to come to India even for the fourth test. In such a situation, only Smith will be seen doing the captaincy.
Captaincy Experience
Steve Smith captained the Australian team from 2014 to 2018. He was stripped of the captaincy after ball-tampering in the match against South Africa. Then from the year 2021, he remains the vice-captain of the team. In the press conference after the third test, he said he did not want to be the captain, and it was Pat Cummins’s team. Steve Smith has captained Australia in 37 Tests, winning 21 and losing 10.
Best Captaincy Record Against India
Steve Smith is the only overseas captain in the last decade to have won two Tests in India. Under his captaincy, Australia defeated India by 333 runs in Pune in 2017. At the same time, he has also done excellent captaincy in the Indore Test. He adopts a different strategy against India. If Steve Smith captains in the fourth test, it is nothing less than a threat to Team India.
