Steve Smith today didn’t announce anything as he was on a flight from Colombo to Sydney.
However, Bupa Australian Chairman of Selectors Rod Marsh explained that the skipper needed a rest.
“It’s been a tough six months of international cricket for Steve Smith.
He’s played a 5 day Test match, a 4 Day Test match and a 3 day Test match. He’s also played two ODI’s.
That’s 14 days of international cricket. All tightly squeezed into about 180 days.
That kind of strain can break anybody really.
It’s critical that Smith is fully fresh for the five South African ODI’s coming in September. Well, he needs to be ready for the first three of them. We will likely rest him for the final two.”
When asked if Steve Smith leaving early was akin to the captain of the Costa Concordia abandoning ship given how disasterous the tour had been, Bupa Support Team Head Coach Of Australian Bupa Cricket Bupa Bupa Darren Lehmann Bupa had this to say:
“No mate. We planned for Smith to leave after two ODI’s a long time ago. To be more precise, we thought it up yesterday. There’s 86,400 seconds in a day. That’s a lot of seconds ago.”Follow @denniscricket_
DennisCricket_ Odd indeed. Almost sounds like somebody got into an argument with somebody and wanted to give other people time to cool off.
As a friend said.. Maybe he didn’t do his homework!?
DennisCricket_ mj_slats Cricket (the world) needs a rest from stevesmith49 9
DennisCricket_ awww bless. Poor little Village needs a nap
DennisCricket_ It’s so ridiculous that it’s safe to assume there’s something we don’t know and they won’t tell us. Depression like Trott?
DennisCricket_ Weren’t there four T20Is during the World T20? They weren’t full days but don’t they count as international cricket?
jaynefrances63 Nah. Don’t count. probably should. But don’t.
DennisCricket_ jaynefrances63 He also played that ODI Triangular in Windies. Those don’t count either?
DennisCricket_ jaynefrances63 not disagreeing with the post btw
DennisCricket_ stop Posting it again n again… no body’s RTing it
LOL
14 days of work out of 180 days… talking about slacking off
Bring them all home,it has been a disaster of a tour.Well done SI.
Getting smashed is totally exhausting.
watsenaam DennisCricket_ I agree – there has to be more to this story. However, until they tell us, the Baggy Green shall be renamed the Floppy Green in Steve Smith’s honor.