Steve Smith slams Australian culture

Dixit Bhargav | 27/12/2018
Steve Smith slams Australian culture

Steve Smith slams Australian culture: Banned Australian captain has lashed out at Australia’s ‘win-at-all-cost’ culture.

During the second Test of South Africa’s tour of Australia in 2016 at Hobart, South Africa had defeated Australia by an innings and 80 runs to gain an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

Having lost a series at home didn’t seem to go well with James Sutherland and Pat Howard, the then vital named involved in Cricket Australia. In a recent interview with former Australia wicket-keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist for Cricket 360, banned Australia cricketer Steve Smith has disclosed that the duo had entered the Australian dressing room, lashing out at the players.

“I remember James Sutherland and Pat Howard coming into the rooms there and saying ‘we don’t pay you to play, we pay you to win’,” Smith was quoted as saying to Gilchrist initially.

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Smith, who has been banned for a year for his role in the Sandpaper gate at Cape Town earlier this year, further said that he was left disappointed after the incident. “For me that was a little bit disappointing, we don’t go out there to try lose games of cricket, we go out there to try and win and play the best way we can,” he said.

Smith also talked about the months gone by, citing them as a ‘dark’ period of his life. “I’ve had ups and downs throughout the nine months. Initially the first week or so after everything went down in South Africa that was really tough. I was in a pretty dark space.

“I was pretty much curled up in a ball and in tears for a lot of it. I was struggling mentally and not doing real well,” he added.

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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