Watch: Steve Smith Comically Falls After Mistiming His Shot & Gets Run-Out

Australia National Cricket Team star batsman Steve Smith played a scratchy innings in the first T20I of the five-match series against the Suryakumar Yadav-led India National Cricket Team on Thursday, November 23, at the Dr. Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam.

Steve Smith and Matthew Short opened the innings for Australia in the absence of first-choice openers. They batted quite well initially and took the attack on the Indian bowlers.

However, as the innings progressed Steve Smith started to look scratchy. He tried to hit boundaries but wasn’t able to generate enough power to send the ball past the boundary ropes.

He reached the half-century milestone off 40 balls and was dismissed on the very next delivery. On the 5th ball of the 16th over, pacer Mukesh Kumar bowled a shortish length delivery and Steve Smith went across the stumps and tried to hit the ball over the short fine-leg fielder.

However, he wasn’t able to hit the ball well. As his partner Josh Inglis had come a long way down for single, Steve Smith was forced to run. The batter wasn’t able to complete the run as Mukesh Kumar quickly grabbed the ball and knocked over the stumps.

Watch: Steve Smith Comically Falls Down After Mistiming His Shot

RUN-OUT!

Second wicket for #TeamIndia! ??

Steve Smith gets out.

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Earlier, India won the toss and opted to bowl first in the match to take full advantage of the dew in the second innings. India picked a playing XI along the expected lines with Washington Sundar, Avesh Khan, Shivam Dube, and Jitesh Sharma missing out. The Aussies, on the other hand, left out the World Cup heroes – Travis Head, Glenn Maxwell and Adam Zampa – from the playing XI

India (Playing XI): Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Ishan Kishan(w), Suryakumar Yadav(c), Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Axar Patel, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Prasidh Krishna

Australia (Playing XI): Matthew Short, Steven Smith, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Marcus Stoinis, Tim David, Matthew Wade(w/c), Sean Abbott, Nathan Ellis, Jason Behrendorff, Tanveer Sangha