Australia National Cricket Team was fully worried when superstar right -handed batsman Steve Smith received a bad shock on his finger on his finger during the match against the West Indies National Cricket Team.
Steve Smith suffered a setback on his finger during the third innings of the second Test against the West Indies National Cricket Team at the National Cricket Stadium, St. George, Granada.
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Steve Smith is suffering from a huge injury
Steve Smith recently injured his little finger while fielding in the slip during the WTC final against the South Africa National Cricket Team at Lord’s.
Thankfully, he avoided surgery despite being suffering from a bad -looking compound chaos of his right little finger, but was asked to wear a splint for eight weeks.
Smith missed the first Test against West Indies, but achieved fitness for the second match. While batting, he wore a thin splash on his finger and did not field in slips.
However, he faced a major injury, when a ball from Alzari Joseph raised above the hard length, returning to his body fast, and hit his little finger.
Although Steve Smith did not feel any immediate pain, he removed his gloves after the next ball and was in significant pain when he saw the finger to flex.
The Australian physio was forced to reach the middle to investigate Smith, and some time later, the batsman was good to continue. Smith scored an outstanding 71 off 119 balls, playing an important role in 7 fours and 1 six innings, and Australia and took a 254 -run lead at the end of the day 3.
My first ball hit me directly on the finger – Steve Smith
Talking to the broadcaster after day 3, Smith revealed that the shock he took on his finger bothers him, but he was fine.
“My first ball hit me directly on the finger. It was not ideal, but it seems fine. It’s that kind of surface.”
Talking about the pitch for the second Test match, Steve Smith said that it is quite difficult to bat and will become more difficult with the match moving forward.
“Some can shoot, you may have to take some hands, but all this is good. We are in a good place. It was a difficult surface – slightly up and down, slightly down, slightly seam movement. Don’t think that the wicket is going to be better, maybe some more moves,” he said.
Tried cash on anything loose – Steve Smith
Smith further explained how he made his batting adjustment to achieve success on a difficult surface. He said:
“Decided to bat on the middle stump, still stay and reject LBW as much as possible, and try to use the entire face of the bat as much as possible. Tried to loose anything to bring back the pressure on the bowler.”
At the end of playing at day 3, Australia were between Alex Carrie (26*) and Pat Cummins (4*) at 221/7, and they aim to post a target of about 300 runs for the hosts, Smith said.
Smith said, “The new ball is going to be very important for us. Hopefully we can reach around around 300 and then we will see how this happens,” Smith said.
