Recently the erstwhile Australian Skipper Greg Chappell has put forward an interesting perception about Steve Smith’s batting as the Australian star has stepped into the domain of his nation’s fellow batting maestros.
On the very first day at the MCG, he has crossed Chappell’s scoring record of 7,110 runs by taking a single in the 51st over and with this, he has enlisted himself into the 10th position on Australian’s group of Cricketers who has all-time great test run scores. His current batting average is 63.49 which is slightly ahead of Chappell’s batting average.
Smith has undergone a tough patch as due to his association with Australia’s ball-tampering incident he has been out from the International Cricket for a year. This might have been acted as a guide book for him to help to understand his life and professional career in a better way.
He marked his return to the Test side with this year’s Ashes series with a glorifying 774 runs, this remarkable return of Smith was unexpected to Chappell.
Chappell said that Smith will reach his highest form in the coming three or four years. The 87-year-old cricket great also mentioned that Smith is an astonishing player and he’s playing outstandingly well and he has made a record which can be compared with the best.
There are clear indications that show that he’s going to end his career as a prolific batsman through this beautiful game.
Chappell thinks that this 30-year-old cricket fanatic may be excessively obsessive about cricket but he is positive about it.
Chappell adds that Smith is inventive about his game and innovative with his thought process and that’s what makes him indistinctive as a cricketer.
In the last decade as a national talent manager and a selector, Chappell has seen the gradual evolution of Smith who he believes is possessed with neverending hunger of batting from his early days and recently improved drastically due to his psychological development and observation of the international scene.
Smith’s mind is the key that sets him on the board and more promptly his ability to observe to plan strategies for different bowlers helps him to score in difficult conditions.
He takes up clues and hints better than other player’s and his decision-making skill helps to keep his hunger for batting intact and to develop his batting more convincingly.
In the last six years, he has improved with his overall batting technique and this fetched him 26 hundred so far. Smith’s habitual instincts and theoretical viewpoints have increased over this point of time, now he watches batsmen from the bowler’s point of view and this helps him to understand the bowler’s psychology.
