13-09-2019 22:22 via theguardian.com

Steve Smith continues absurdly prolific run to change the mood again | Geoff Lemon

Australia’s awesome No 4 has been producing one of the most dominant sequences of Test batting ever recordedBefore this year’s Ashes the contest was expected to be two good bowling attacks against two brittle batting line-ups. In large part that has played out. One exception has been that across the first four Tests, Australia fielded three excellent fast bowlers to England’s two. The other exception, which creates rather a large skew, has been Steve Smith producing one of the
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