Jasprit Bumrah dismissing Steve Smith for a golden duck became one of the key turning moments of Day 1’s play, and former Australia skipper Matthew Hayden discussed where the Australia batter went wrong.
“Think of Steve Smith’s career. He’s always been a modern day enigma. You’ve always kind of expected him at some point to fall over the crease and get trapped in front like that dismissal. That was kind of all the old fellows that look, look at the game, consider Smith to do that. But in reality, it’s also genius planning,” Hayden said on Star Sports.
“I mean, to have that sort of velocity, 140, jamming it into the, into the stumps, that was going on to clean up middle stump. We thought that that was the perfect delivery. We thought that Cummins would have the perfect delivery against Virat Kohli as well in that matchup, but to me that was the crowning glory of the day. Get Steve Smith out, expose Australia, and you get them in a position where you want them as a Team India,” he added.
