Spin legend Shane Warne makes a U-turn on his claim of dropping Steve Smith from the playing XI t20 world cup. Warne said Smith’s role as ‘Mr Fix-It’ is working well for the Australian team in the current tournament. Smith’s T20I strike rate has always been under question as critics have claimed several times that he is not the best option in the limited overs format.
Earlier, Warne was also not convinced of Smith’s place for the opening matches in the tournament, however, Australia advanced to the semi-finals from the death group with England. The spin maestro now claims that Australia can lift the World Cup and Smith can play a key role in it with his flexibility to bat anywhere.
“Now that the Aussies have the right batting line-up and are in form, they can win the World Cup,” Warne tweeted on Tuesday.
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“My opening X1 doesn’t have Smith. But his role as Mr. Fix-It is spot on.”
Warne claimed that Smith could bat in order to stabilize the innings if Australia lost wickets early, and that if he did not, he could bat under some power-hitters such as Mitchell Marsh, Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell. can.
He wrote: “They lose wickets early and if they don’t go down and the animals (Marsh, Stoinis, Maxwell) go in.”
Now that the Aussies have their batting order right and find form. They can win the WC. My early X1 doesn’t have a Smith. But his role as Mr. Fix is spot on. He loses early and if they don’t go down he falls down and goes to the Beast (Marsh, Stoinis, Maxwell) – Shane Warne (@ShaneWarne) November 9, 2021
Australia qualified for the semi-finals as Group 1 runners-up on the basis of a better net run rate than South Africa, who were knocked out of the tournament on Saturday after beating top-ranked England. England, Australia and South Africa finished with eight points each and the top two in the table were decided on the basis of net run rate.
Meanwhile, against them, Pakistan have played major cricket in the tournament so far as they are the only team to finish the Super 12 stage this year without a loss.
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