Steve Smith, known for his focus and concentration, was dismissed in the 9990s during the ongoing Test match, joining an elite group of batting greats.
At 12:24pm in the middle of a sun-soaked SCG, Steve Smith was doing very Steve Smith things. Staring up into the MA Noble stand, gesturing with increasing frustration at a couple of spectators apparently in his eyeline, a couple of four-letter thoughts kept to himself. Already he’d done the same at the opposite end, taking umbrage at unwanted distractions in a similar fashion to last year. Then, at 12.25pm, Steve Smith did a very un- Steve Smith thing.
Nicking off to Prasidh Krishna’s first ball of a new spell, Smith’s concentration had been broken. His customary post-dismissal hangdog look included a glare toward the stands. For the rest of us, Smithwatch hit pause. With Test cricket’s 10,000-run club calling, the 35-year-old had begun the day needing 38 to join the 14 men already in it. In front of his home crowd, on an SCG deck where he has plundered more than 1000 runs at almost 70, spearheading an Australian fightback from 4-39. As leading member Allan Border mused before day one, a far more fitting scenario than his own milestone at Christchurch’s Lancaster Park in front of 50-odd people.Between 12:24 and 12:25, cameras panned to Smith’s wife Dani accordingly, sitting in the same stand her husband was gesticulating in the direction of. Having seen off the early threats of Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, Smith’s uncharacteristic lapse sees him join one of Test cricket’s most exclusive clubs – a quartet of batting greats (Brian Lara, Mahela Jayawardene and Alastair Cook) to have been dismissed in the nervous 9990s.Lara even managed to do it twice, just months after plundering his world record 400 not out against England in 2004 at Manchester in the return series, hitting his 10,000th Test run after a first-innings duck thanks to Andrew Flintoff. Lara made it to seven and his milestone in the second dig before Flintoff nabbed him again.Of the nine times Smith has passed a thousand-run mark in Tests, six times he’s done it with a centur
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