Smith reacts to his brilliant comeback in the series, explains why he likes to captain India

Steve Smith on Indore Test Win: After losing the first two matches of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 (BGT 2023), Australia made an exciting comeback in this four-match Test series by winning the third match. Australia has defeated the Indian team by 9 wickets in the Indore Test. Like the first two Test matches, Australia won here despite having a spin track in Indore. Now Australia has a chance to draw the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 by winning the fourth match of the series. Know what Australian captain Steve Smith said on this strong comeback in the Test series.

Steve Smith said, ‘I think from day one we laid the foundation for victory. Our bowlers bowled brilliantly on the first day, especially Kuhneman. After the contribution of all the bowlers, Usman Khawaja played tremendously in the first innings in batting. We made some good partnerships during that time. Later India definitely bowled well and we were reduced. Then Pujara also played well but our bowlers did a good job. In the last I would say that it was a complete performance of ours.

During this, Steve Smith also remembered the regular captain of his team, Pat Cummins. Please tell that Pat Cummins had to return home in the middle of the Test series due to family reasons and due to this Steve Smith had to take charge of the team. Steve Smith also said that he enjoyed coffee after getting the captaincy after a long time.

‘I love captaining here’
Smith said, ‘I really enjoyed this week. I love captaining in this part of the world (India). I think I know a lot about here. This is a place where I enjoy a lot. I think I have done a good job here. There was no change in our approach in this match. We just had to see what kind of conditions are there, play according to that. Hope we end the series well too.

Australian spinners rocked
After losing in Nagpur and Delhi, Australia bundled out the Indian team for 109 runs in the Indore Test. After this, Australia got a lead of 88 runs by scoring 197 runs in their first innings. Here Team India’s second innings was also reduced to 163 runs and Australia got a target of just 76 runs, which was achieved by losing one wicket. Nathan Lyon was the ‘Player of the Match’ with 11 wickets.

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