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https://thirdballlocked.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/smith.jpg20481352When Steven Smith bats, there is only one narrative to the commentary: ways to get him out. One could get the feeling that he deliberately oversaw an innocuous crime to change the topic of discussion while he bats. Yet, the narrative never changes. It wouldn’t. How to get Smith out? First the bowlers target his ever tempting pads. “Bullseye!” they think without realising Smith’s eye is superior. There is a 1 in roughly 5.2 to the 61st power chance that if you were to slap a table, all of the molecules in your hand and the table would miss each other and your hand would go through it. The probability of getting Smith trapped in front of his wickets is lesser. When he was a kid, Steve Smith would have played cricket in his class using an exam pad. He’d have never let the ball or whatever round object he played with hit his pads. But he’d have still scored runs. Even if his ex girlfriend was a ball that darted into his pads, he wouldn’t miss it. Then they try to get him out in the corridor of uncertainty – the line outside the off stump. You bore Smith...