Former Australia captain and a legend of the game, Ricky Ponting, feels that if Australia are struck by any injury during the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2026, they can call up Steve Smith.
Speaking to The West Australian, Ponting said: “His numbers stack up better than anybody else’s. But when you have been out and the side has some success, and Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh are the incumbents, it is tough to push one of those two guys out of an opening slot. And poor Steve has probably been pigeonholed as an opening batter only in T20s, which has held him back a little bit in the last few years as far as selection is concerned.”
Smith last represented Australia in a T20I match on February 25, 2024. Though he has retired from the ODI format, he is still available for T20Is.
In the recently concluded Big Bash League (BBL), Smith played for the Sydney Sixers and has shown brilliant form. The right-hander played six matches and scored 299 runs at an average of 59.80, with the help of a century and two half-centuries, at a strike rate of 167.97.
In his international T20I career, the 36-year-old has played 67 matches, scoring 1,094 runs at an average of 24.86 and a strike rate of 125.45, which includes five fifties.
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