Steve Smith Reveals The Reason Behind His Unorthodox Stance To Ish Sodhi In A Rajasthan Royals Podcast

The ongoing situation concerning the global pandemic that is the coronavirus [COVID-19] has proceeded to put the entire world under a lockdown. Almost every sporting event has been put on the back-burner. And, so sports personalities around the world are engaging in a plethora of social media activities to keep themselves engaged.

As far as cricketers are concerned, they are engaging in Instagram chats, Question-Answer sessions with fans besides doing a variety of household activities. Recently, Rajasthan Royals, the inaugural champions of the Indian Premier League, organized a podcast where former Australian captain Steve Smith opened up about his unorthodox technique to Kiwi leg-spinner and Royals’ spin-bowling consultant Ish Sodhi.

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Smith’s unorthodox technique has befuddled cricketing folklore and the bowlers around the world have found it tough to counter the No.1 ranked Test batsman in the world. Talking about his technique, Smith said that the way he bats depends on the bowler and how the pitch is playing.

“It depends on who’s bowling, how is the wicket playing, how I gonna score and stuff like that or how people are trying to get me out, probably that determines how open I am or otherwise how closed I am,” Smith said as quoted by Hindustan Times.

He added “But my general stance where my back foot is going to almost off stump or maybe even outside at stages, I know that anything outside my eyeliner isn’t hitting the stumps. For me, you shouldn’t get out if the ball is not hitting the stumps, so that is just a trick from me when I first started doing it, just limiting the ways I get out,”

Steve Smith opens up on his technique in a podcast with Ish Sodhi

The No.1 ranked Test batsman added that his off-stump stance aids him in leaving the ball which is outside his line of sight.

Sometimes, I get trapped in front but I’m okay with that at stages, knowing that if it is outside my eyeline, I don’t need to try and play the ball, I can just leave that,” he said.

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Smith made a triumphant return to international cricket last year after having completed the 12-month ban handed to him and David Warner for their role in the 2018 Newlands ball-tampering scandal. The right-hander recently completed his 24-month captaincy ban, making him eligible for the leadership role once again.