Steve Smith and David Warner have both been named in Australia's 15-man squad ahead of this year's Cricket World Cup, but Josh Hazlewood and Peter Handscombe miss out.
He'll be the focus of English hecklers both during the World Cup and Ashes tour thanks to what unfolded in South Africa a year ago, but former captain Steve Smith remains one of the world's premier batsmen, a potent gamechanger and a sharp tactician.
That Smith is still ranked number four in the world for Test batsmen after sitting 12 months out of the game tells its own story, but his"best since Bradman" career trajectory has been tainted by the ball-tampering fiasco. Nevertheless, Smith's re-entry to the national team and Cricket World Cup squad means Australia's batting ranks are ridiculously potent, and shorn of the captaincy, could make Smith's exact place in the batting line-up more flexible between three and five.
A World Cup winner in 2015, Smith boasts eight centuries in ODI cricket to date, and will be hoping for some sort of sporting redemption before what will be a gruelling Ashes tour.
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