It’s better late than never as Root’s England finally lay a glove on Smith

Derek Pringle reveals how the overdue switching of Jofra Archer to the Pavilion End at last unsettled and derailed the Australian dangerman

Braveheart: Steve Smith leaves the field, dazed, but showed tremendous courage to return to the field

It wasn’t stated boldly at the time but Jofra Archer’s long-awaited Test debut came with the subtext – ‘here’s our man to get Steve Smith, before he reaches his hundred’.
Well, he did ‘get’ him though not perhaps in the manner planned after a 92mph bouncer struck Smith on his neck...

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