Tim Paine defends Steve Smith over crease-scuffing claim

Smith accused of scuffing guard of Rishabh Pant‘He was certainly not changing guard,’ says PaineAustralia’s captain, Tim Paine, has defended Steve Smith after he was accused of deliberately scuffing away the guard of the India batsman Rishabh Pant on a climactic final day of the third Test between the teams.Smith was filmed on a stump camera shadow-batting then seemingly swiping away at pitch marks made by Pant, whose 97 from 118 balls gave India a chance of an unlikely victory