Steve Smith injury: An awkward outfield landing left Australia’s star batter battling for the final three Tests, with a cortisone injection needed to get through the tour
Steve Smith has revealed about his injury :-
Smith has revealed he batted through the final three Tests of the Ashes with tendon damage in his left wrist after being hurt while fielding on the final day at Lord’s.
Smith believes he hurt his wrist while fielding in the deep during England’s second innings of the second Test, as Ben Stokes unleashed carnage on the tourists.
He then batted through his last six innings of the tour in pain, requiring a cortisone injection before the fourth Test and seeking further scans on return home.
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Smith will miss the tour of South Africa :-
Smith will miss the looming white-ball tour of South Africa with the injury, keeping the joint in a splint for at least the next fortnight.
The 34-year-old is in no doubt for Australia’s 50-over World Cup opener against hosts India on October 8, and is likely to play in the lead-up matches before then, with Australia facing a three-game series with India before official warm-up fixtures.
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Steve Smith said :-
“I must have just landed awkwardly,” Smith told AAP.
“It was quite painful at Headingley (for the third Test).
“Even in the lead in, I didn’t hit that much in the nets. I was just trying to find a way to hold the bat that wasn’t painful.
“After that, some shots I played, cross-bat and back-foot punching I was sore. Trying to decelerate the bat was hard, or defending sometimes was sore. But it wasn’t awful.”
“Maybe it did (impact me), I’m not sure,” Smith said.
The injury has also cost Smith a chance to open in the T20s in South Africa before next year’s World Cup in the format, after back-to-back centuries for the Sydney Sixers at the top of the order in the KFC BBL last summer.
2023 Qantas T20s v South Africa :-
- August 30: First T20I, Durban (August 31, 2am AEST)
- September 1: Second T20I, Durban (September 2, 2am AEST)
- September 3: Third T20I, Durban, September 3, 10pm AEST
Australia T20 squad :-
Mitchell Marsh (c), Sean Abbott, Tim David, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Aaron Hardie, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Spencer Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, Matt Short, Marcus Stoinis, Ashton Turner, Adam Zampa
