WATCH: Steve Smith plays the helicopter shot

Dixit Bhargav | 04/11/2018
Steve Smith plays the helicopter shot

Steve Smith plays the helicopter shot: The Australian cricketer was recently seen playing a helicopter shot in a local match.

During a club match for Sutherland against Manly-Warringah in the NSW T20 Premier Cricket tournament today, Australian cricketer Steven Smith was seen replicating his former captain at Rising Pune Supergiant in Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

After dismissing a couple of batsmen in the first innings, Smith batted in the second, scoring an impressive 40 (21). Of the limited number of spectators present at the stadium, all of them were amazed to see the way Smith batted today.

It was during the end of his innings when Smith dispatched a ball (bowled by a right-arm pacer) from outside the off-stump towards the mid-wicket boundary via an archetype helicopter shot. The shot saw Smith getting a huge applause from the viewers presents at the ground.

Helicopter shot, a shot famously started by Dhoni, has been played by a few rare cricketers since its inception. With the duo having spent a couple of years at RPS during IPL 2016 and 2017 respectively, you never know if Smith would have worked on the shot at that time.

Smith is currently undergoing a one-year ban alongside David Warner and Cameron Bancroft (nine months) for his involvement in the Ball Tampering scandal that took place during Australia’s tour of South Africa at Cape Town earlier this year.

Their bans will be lifted in March, giving them limited opportunities ahead of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 and The Ashes 2019.

Serving their ban put by Cricket Australia, the duo has appeared in a couple of T20 leagues around the world and a few in Australia.

Watch the full video of the shot:

 

Read some of the latest Twitter reactions on Smith below:

 

Post Edited By: Dixit Bhargav
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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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