Steve Smith could well stand between Pakistan and something special - How do we get him out cheaply?

[Wasim_Waqar]

Of course Australia has a number of good batsmen, but Steve Smith is the biggest dangerman. My opinion is that he stands between Pakistan and something special.

So how do we get him out? Who is the person to get him out?

I will start. Sohail Khan with a fairly new ball is absolutely key. I think he can get Smith out caught behind or in the slips.

If he is moving towards off stump, rather than bowl on his pads, we have to bowl a bit wider. A reasonably full length (not too full) where he feels he has to play is ideal. This should be moving away in the air or off the seam. On a 4-5th stump line (by the time it gets to him).

Your thoughts?

 

[Ami]

Hold onto anything he offers...

 

[Syed1]

He has a tendency of moving too far onto the off-side and anything directed at his body is glanced uppishly in the short fine leg/ leg-slip region.

During the first test he hit a few boundaries to our pacers in that fashion but our astute captain never took notice of it. Even the commentators pointed it out that NZ (in the recently concluded ODI series) had dismissed Smith in that fashion.

 

[Abdullah719]

1. Don't drop catches.
2. Hear nicks.

 

[Major]

Dont drop your catches, simple as that. You drop 1 or 2 you are allowing the game to be taken away. Look at how shafiqs edges were dropped by smith. His drops alone almost lost them the game

 

[Bilal7]

He was not comfortable against Amir in the first test and Amir should be bowling to him with a packed slips cordon when he first walks in.

 

[Wristy_Shuffler]

Any batsman is susceptible to good quality new ball bowling but if he makes it past that then top spinner from Yasir. This is from 5/6 years ago and he's come a long way since but I still think it's best way to get him:

59.1 54.5 mph, And Kaneria wins the battle straight away! Pitched in line, it was a topspinner that squeezed between bat and pad, stuck in front, but replays show Smith got a faint inside edge, so he's unlucky. Big wicket that! 208/7

61.2 56.2 mph, but this time he's gone! The bowling change does the trick! Kaneria floated one up on middle and off and the ball just hurried on straight after pitching, striking the front pad and then the bat. Huge appeal from the bowler straight away, who was convinced, and the umpire agrees. That's a good decision, would've hit middle stump three inches from the top 208/8

From the 2010 series in England.

 

[azimiqbal]

I think we have to play a right hand fast bowler will help change angle and hang in to your catches!

 

[Chief Destroyer]

Don't give him 5-6 chances.

 

[Chrish]

Khawaja would be owned if wicket has turn

 

[Chrish]

Warner has been out of touch lately

this good-boy avatar doesn't seem to suit him.. Seems to have lost competitive edge

 

[ExplicitAI]

Allow the bowlers to play to their strengths, pitch the ball up, don't bowl dollies and HOLD ON to your catches.

 

[TestMatch]

Easy.

Put four slips, then another 4 slips behind the first 4 slips to catch the inevitable drop catches.

 

[Rayyman]

Aussies will say slant it across him outside off stump.
Waqar and Ramiz will say reverse swinging yorkers.

I say unleash the beast!

 

[hur rizvi]

Off-stump channel

 

[Speedster777]

During Amir's last tour of Australia, he bowled out Smith with an in swinger.

 

[msb314]

1. Don't drop catches.
2. Hear nicks.

What a great idea!

If only our players could follow it and not waste DRS on marginal LBW calls.

 

[Wasim_Waqar]

During Amir's last tour of Australia, he bowled out Smith with an in swinger.

That was Headingley 2010. Lots of swing. Conditions at the MCG will be very different. Smith is also a much better player now.

 

[Timewaster]

During Amir's last tour of Australia, he bowled out Smith with an in swinger.

Back then Smiths technique was completely different, back then he batted on leg stump and was out a lot in the slips, now he moves way outside off stump.
He is so hard to bowl to because anything on off stump he crashes through mid wicket for 4.
The most common way he gets out is defending wide balls, so think keep it wide and full, though NZ recently got him out in ODI by packing the on side field and bowling straight, but doubt that will work in a Test match

 

[MenInG]

Smith was dropped twice - he's not infallible.

 

[TeymurBlake]

Take whatever opportunity you get from him really. It still amazes me how great or decent of a batsman he's turned out to be.

 

[Fahdi]

Smith moves across and closes the face of his bat while trying to play on the leg side. If bowlers adjust their line according to his movement he is susceptible to nicks so hold on to any chances he offers

 

[Hasan123]

Outside of stump, making him drive and fish outside of the stump and than catch the ball.

 

[Rayyman]

During Amir's last tour of Australia, he bowled out Smith with an in swinger.

That was pehla Steve Smith. This is doosra Steve Smith.

 

[Sadevdesai]

If there was an absolutely certain way to get him Out ..... it would be all over the newspapers and the internet !!!
Since it isn't there, it only means there isn't a certain way to get him out. In general though, a batsman gets out ecause HE made a a mistake. That is why there is a " Ball of the Century ", an absolute Jaffa, so a bowler can persist and induces a Batsman to take some liberty against him or false sense of security, whatever, and the Batsman winds up obliging him. Sunil Gavasker once said that, " If I just decide not to get out .... young can have 20 fielders, will not matter .... but then, I will not be able to score many runs either.

 

[Justcrazy]

Just bowl to him with at least 3 slips , hold to opportunity created.