Steve Smith has warned the home team against sledging him ahead of Australia’s four-Test series against South Africa beginning in Durban on Thursday. In the Ashes series, after Smith scored a match-winning hundred in the first Test at Brisbane, England had tried to get under his skin during the second Test at Adelaide. Smith then bounced back in style in the third Test, hitting the career-best 239 to fashion series-clinching win for his team. The 29-year-old now believes that another round of sledging in South Africa will only motivate him to produce his best. Unchanged playing XISmith named the same playing XI for the first Test that he had used against England in the last Ashes Test at Sydney in January.

Source: Hindustan Times February 28, 2018 09:22 UTC