Cricket: Andrew McDonald says it would be premature to judge Steve Smith's effectiveness as a Test opener after just four matches.
McDonald defends Smith's move to the top | 01:20Australia has been urged to abandon the Steve Smith experiment despite coach Andrew McDonald claiming criticism of the newly-converted opener was
Veteran broadcaster Gerard Whateley told SEN that eight innings from Smith was a large enough sample size to prove the concept ‘doesn’t work’.“I feel passionately that the top six in that order is not my batting line-up for the first Test against India,” Whateley said on SEN. His suggestion was not to abandon the selectors’ ideal on basing an order around including the nations’ best batters – but instead to look to reshuffle the pack.“We need the Dave Warner replacement at the top of the order for the chemistry and dynamic, and that player is in the top six.
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