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Steve Smith’s low-key, belated crack at delivering a Test summer of pure dominance – Wide World of Sports
Final act of redemption for champion batsman
Jofra Archer’s concussive missile aside, Steve Smith channelled Don Bradman on a swinging, seaming Ashes tour and a seminal demolition of Pakistan and New Zealand at home seemed a certain encore.
Yet Bradman has been the only sure thing in cricket history and so it proved, as Smith went from dominating England to digressing against lesser rivals, more Ben Affleck’s Batman than Christian Bale’s.
Having played superhero after invariably dismal opening batting displays in the Old Dart, Smith seemed…
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