Steven Smith may decide whether or not to start for Australia in assessments, according to the original Australia captain.
Ricky Ponting has tipped Australia to get the Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India after this year by a 3-1 ratio.
He said the guests will have a "bit of a place to show" after losing their past two household Test set to India 2-1 in 2018-19 and 2020-21. Since 2014-15, Australia has not defeated India in a Test line.
" It's going to be a dynamic set and, as I said, I think Australia's got a bit of a place to verify against India in Australia on the backside of what's happened the previous two set here", Ponting said on the ICC Review. The other key aspect of this line is that we are returning to five Testing as well. The last few testing were the only four. Five tests, I think everyone's really excited by that and I do n't know if there'd be too many drawn games.
" I'm never going to point against Australia, and I'm certainly going to tip Australia to get." There will be a draw there and there will be some bad weather there, so I'm going to claim 3-1 to Australia."
Steven Smith does he keep opening?
After David Warner's retirement at the SCG earlier this year, Ponting said the Australian side would "pretty much pick itself," but he was n't sure whether Steven Smith should stay open or not.
" Perhaps the only one question there might be with Australia once, is if Smith's the right person to be opening the bat. That would be the only keyword that I can see there. However, it was evidently about reining Cameron Green in.
" So I'll restate it, never whether Smith's the appropriate person to open the bat but whether he thinks it's the right place for him. Because I believe they will make a change and place someone else back up there if he does n't believe it to be the right place.
In his last Test set, in New Zealand in March, Smith scored only 51 works in four pitches while opening. Cameron Green's inclusion in the XI, which paid dividends when Green was the top scorer on the journey with 238 works in four pitches, including a career-best 174 hardly out in Wellington, was his incentive for his campaign to the bottom after Warner retired.
Though the sample size is small- eight innings as opener- the numbers are n't in Smith's favour. He has only ever passed 30 and averages 28.50 despite scoring 91 this year against the West Indies at the Gabba.
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