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The Australian team is currently on the tour of New Zealand where it is playing the first match of the 2-match Test series against the host team at the Wellington ground. Meanwhile, former Kangaroo team captain and star batsman Steve Smith has advised to change a rule of cricket regarding bowlers. Since the advent of T20 cricket, it has not been an easy task for the bowlers to stop the runs, whereas in Test cricket, bowlers often use leg side bouncers to slow down the game a bit, due to which Steve Smith has now tried to limit its number. Has demanded.
Only one or more balls should be allowed to be thrown
Steve Smith said in his statement that the rules regarding bowling bouncers in leg sound can be changed. You are not able to play shots in front of the wicket. If such a ball is bowled, it should be declared wide or the bowler should be warned. When you give a warning to the spinners in a similar situation, then the same rule should be for fast bowlers also. After one or two balls, a warning should be issued and such balls should be declared wide. According to Smith, if the ball is turning too much towards the leg side then the batsman is not able to play any stroke. Let us tell you that in the last few years, bowlers have used more leg side bouncers against Smith, due to which Smith has often lost his wicket.
Returned to the pavilion after scoring only 31 runs in the Wellington Test.
In the Wellington Test match against New Zealand, Steve Smith could not show any special performance in the opening and as an opening batsman, facing only 71 balls, he returned to the pavilion after scoring only 31 runs. After David Warner’s retirement from Test cricket, Smith has taken over the responsibility of opening, in which this is his second Test series as an opener. At the end of the first day of the Wellington Test match, the Australian team had scored 279 runs at the loss of 9 wickets, in which Cameron Green scored unbeaten 103 runs with the bat.
(PTI INPUTS)
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