Steven Smith is an Australian talisman who aspires to feature in the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Smith said, “I think it would be cool to play in the Olympics.”
Cricket will return to the Olympic fold after more than a century for the Los Angeles Games in 2028. Only two teams, France and Great Britain, participated in cricket’s last Olympic Games when it was part of the competition in Paris in 1900.
Twelve men from each of the two sides played in this two-day Test match. But Great Britain was never going to be considered a serious first-class opponent.
Smith, 35, walked into the Big Bash League as an opener on Saturday and scored a blistering ton. “We’ll see how far I go in terms of long-form cricket. But I am going to play short-form cricket for a while I think when I do finish.”.
You never know. There are a lot of good young kids who are smacking the ball out of the park,” Smith said, as quoted by ESPNcriricinfo.
I find the more I play back-to-back games you get in sync with the game, ” Smith said. ” Even [Saturday] I don’t think I played my first 10 balls really well. I was probably going a bit too hard for how the wicket was playing.”.
“But if I am playing T20s regularly, then probably at the start I come out with a slightly different mindset, give myself a bit more time. It’s just the gears and going up and down in the gears throughout the innings [that change for T20s]. And just playing the percentages,” he concluded.
He did look unwell in the early stages of the just-concluded Border Gavaskar Trophy, but he did some thumping back-to-back hundreds in Melbourne and Brisbane, and as the tour went along, he appeared to be in peak form.
