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Why Steven Smith form is a big concern for Australia in Test cricket?

Steven Smith, a batter who ruled the longest format of game is now finding his form in Test cricket. Steven Smith started his career in Test cricket as a Leg spinner and he was supposed to be next Shane Warne of Australian cricket but after some years he started his focus on batting. After 1-2 years he started perform as a batter in Test cricket and he showed to world that he is ready to rule Test cricket. He started scoring runs in Test cricket and in next 4-5 years he scored lot of runs in Test cricket for Australia. His peak form was on that level where no one can ever think to imagine, he was a batter who scored runs for fun in prime. Smith scored runs across all countries and he proved himself as a batter who can score runs in any conditions. In 2017 when he came to India to play Test series pressure was on Smith to perform but Smith never took that pressure on himself and he smashed 3 centuries in 4 Test match series and his knock in Pune was a proper nasterclass where he showed ...

Why Marnus Labuschagne be key Batter for Australia in this BGT?

 Marnus Labuschagne is one of the best batters in the Test cricket in present, he played many great knocks in Test career but in recent times his form got dipped in Test cricket that saw his average goes down under 50 in Test cricket. Marnus Labuschagne played his Debut Test match against Pakistan in 2018 and he got few chances but he failed to grab those changes and he got dropped from squad. In 2019 , he got a chance to bat as a concussion substitute in the place of Steven Smith and after that he showed his true potential in next 2-3 years. He scored lot of runs in Australia against every team but whenever he was scoring runs there was a big question on him and that question was "will he perform in other countries also? " and that was a valuable question because in Australia pitches are good for batting and Marnus scored big runs on these pitches but when he first time he played a Test series outside Australia he started to failing to score those big runs because conditions...

A streak that was never a real streak.

Indian cricket team is one of the greatest team in International cricket , they are known for their brilliant performance. In last series Indian team lose badly against New Zealand in Test cricket at home conditions and their winning streak of 18 Test series at home breached by New Zealand in this Test series but was that winning 18 Test series at home streak a real streak, let's see.  18 Home Test series winning streak, Real? This streak was started in 2013 when Indian team beat Australia by 4-0 and after that Indian team performed well but because of worst performance outside India in Test cricket MSD resigned as a Test captain in 2014 and Virat Kohli became the new Test captain of Indian team in Test format. Virat played his first home Test series against South Africa as a captain and in that series he misused the home conditions and he played that series on turning tracks where even part-time bowlers were enough to take wickets but after that series he changed his decision to p...