Australia captain Steve Smith hit the highest one-day worldwide score at the Sydney Cricket Ground in a 68-run win over New Zealand.
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1- Only one batsman (David Warner) has more ODI runs in 2016 than Steve Smith, who has 1,082 runs to his name at an average of 51.52.
Head’s ambition is plain; the 22-year-old wants to turn his starts into centuries.
But for all the various contributors along the way, this was a win for Smith, a day when everything he touched turned to Australian gold. Tomorrow hopefully it is another big score or a not out.
‘I was lucky enough to get through and get the 100 but unfortunately I couldn’t take it through to the end’. However, the Black Caps will have Colin deGrandhome, who had an impressive outing in his maiden Test series last month against Pakistan.
For the first time this summer, Steven Smith could do no wrong. To be in the position we were and to get to where we ended was a match-winning partnership.
Smith revealed one of the Black Caps fielders had told his teammates he’d had bat on ball before the Australian skipper bluffed them into not using up their review.
Traditionally, the Canberra track is a batsman’s paradise and head curator Brad van Dam says he expects the pitch to be hard and flat, making it ideal for run scoring. “It is important for us to do that to give us best chance in the series”, Williamson was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
Steve Smith said “the way (Head) played was beautiful” after the skipper and the South Australian tyro put on 127 together for the fifth wicket across the middle 20 overs of the match in which Australia romped to a 68-run win. First slip sometimes has a better look and he was unsure. “It is a special catch and a game changer”. His heroics ensured Australia avoided the ignominy of losing a sixth straight ODI after an embarrassing series whitewash in South Africa. “(But) it’s not my job to do that.
“It was nice to get a big score on my home ground and I love batting here; it’s a great place to play”.
“The pressure is always on, that’s the same for everyone in the side”.
“You’ve probably got five guys that are banging down the door that aren’t in the squad”, he added.
“There are all sorts of factors I guess that contribute to the crowd attendance, be it weather and sometimes it can be performance”.
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“They’ve been very good for a number of years and are ranked number one in the world, so I don’t think the unsettled nature of the Test side will lead into the one-day side”. And despite Australia’s 5-0 thrashing in a one-day series in South Africa in October, when they took an under-strength attack and rested Starc and Hazlewood, they will enter this series as No.1 in the world, as compared to New Zealand at No.3.
